Banking

Customer data software meant to help banks provide personalized pricing and cross-sell financial products and services.

The nation's two largest banks are heading in opposite directions when it comes to customer satisfaction. Overall, banks are narrowing the gap with credit unions.

Bank of America's efforts to increase mobile usage include the use of QR codes for quick app downloads.

Ensuring that corporate boards include a diverse set of skills, backgrounds and personalities helps against groupthink's dislocation of corporate and shareholder interests.

Consumers National bought its new mortgage lending software before hiring staff for the new department.

Solera National Bancorp in Lakewood, Colo., has hired a veteran risk manager as its chief credit officer.

VeriFone, a payment terminal company, now owns the entire Vegas transportation market.

The U.K. banking giant has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle U.S. money-laundering charges. Unsettled is whether global banks have the controls to avoid a repeat.

Amerasia Bank in New York has agreed to buy a troubled community bank in Florida. The $291 million-asset bank will acquire Great Eastern Bank of Florida, says Jimmy Tsai, Amerasia's chief operating officer.

Bob Kottler explains how the Louisiana company has been able to book small business loans while other banks struggle to grow.

Fifth Third Bank is the latest bank to announce that it would halt evictions during the holiday season.

HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's largest bank, agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle U.S. probes of money laundering in the largest such accord ever.

Innovations can fail catastrophically, as was the case for the mortgage and securitization innovations that precipitated the crisis. Valuable innovation profitably and honestly delivers greater perceived value to customers, without incurring disproportionate cost and risk.

Several banks that were victims of a fall round of distributed denial of service attacks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are likely to be hit again.

The Treasury Department is scheduled on Tuesday to auction warrants to purchase 1.2 million shares of common stock in M&T Bank.

Intuit's 2012 New Year resolution for its GoPayment card reader was to take it around the world. It did so in bookend fashion.

Like many New Year's resolutions, this one got off to a great start and then languished. Intuit started the year by offering its GoPayment reader in Canada. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company's next significant international expansion was last week's push into the UK market with a pilot program called Intuit Pay.

Cheap travel and social media continue to connect people all over the world. Companies focusing on e-commerce and payments gateways could see success as the world becomes more globalized by helping merchants handle payments from those who want to spend beyond their borders.

MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas trust CU opened its tenth branch here yesterday, its second new branch of the year.

DENVER – Bellco CU opened its newest metro Denver branch yesterday in Sloan’s Lake and is opening an additional branch next Monday in Englewood.

Prosperity Bancshares (PB) in Houston has agreed to buy Coppermark Bancshares in Oklahoma City, Okla., for $193.9 million in cash and stock.