Online trading in options and futures at NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam was disrupted for hours on Monday morning due to unspecified "technical problems," the stock exchange said.

ZestCash, an online lending service for lower-income borrowers, has begun using a new big data-driven decision-making method that it claims will allow it to lend to 25 percent more people and improve repayment rates by 20 percent.

Europe's competition watchdog has opened an in-depth investigation into plans by three telecommunications companies to create a joint "mobile wallet" venture in the U.K.

A Japanese bank will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards, it said Wednesday.

Anittel Group’s managing director, Peter Kazacos, has branched out his Kaz Group of companies to now include Kaz Finance.

The international payments system SWIFT today said it is disconnecting all communications services to Iranian financial institutions in support of a new European Council sanctions against the country over nuclear threat concerns.

Unified communications service provider, Interactive Intelligence, has deployed a new 100-seat Parramatta-based contact centre for residential mortgage finance specialist, Pepper Australia.

When Mathew Lodge, senior director of Cloud services for VMware, looks out over the Cloud landscape and envisions how it will continue to evolve, he sees community Clouds playing a big role. And he's not the only one.

PNC Financial Services is targeting 18- to 24-year-olds with its Virtual Wallet, a mobile and online banking service that is designed for people who are setting up their first bank accounts. Since the service launched in August 2008, PNC is averaging 200 new accounts per day, says Michael Ley, vice president at PNC.

In the coming weeks the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could it have been used to prevent the bad debt from hitting the fan in the first place?