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Friday, March 12, 2010, as of 01:55 PM EDT

Technology

Making Voice Response Tools Echo Banks' Brands

Bank Technology News |  Mar 12

EDIE's been part of the Gulf Coast Educators Federal Credit Union for decades, and she's getting a makeover that will make her a fixture in the credit union and its public persona ...

MoneyGram Hires a Marketing Chief

American Banker |  Mar 12

MoneyGram International has hired Juan Agualimpia as a senior vice president and its chief marketing officer to oversee the company's global branding and marketing efforts.

Barclays' Contactless Debit for Businesses

PaymentsSource |  Mar 12

Barclays Group has continued its efforts to make contactless cards a mainstream technology in the United Kingdom by issuing contactless debit cards to its business ...

USA Technologies Touts Network Links

American Banker |  Mar 12

USA Technologies Inc. said Thursday that more than 71,000 vending machines and other self-serve systems are now linked to its payments network.

WorldNet Acceptance for iPhone in Europe

PaymentsSource |  Mar 12

The Irish online payment processor WorldNet TPS says the payment card acceptance application it introduced this week for Apple's iPhone is the first such service available ...

With Mobile Model Playing Well in India, Citi Turns to U.S.

American Banker |  Mar 11

A mobile payments business model tested in India, in which Citigroup holds onto transaction fees but subsidizes the cost of the phone, has proven a hit among key players.

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Community Banks Make Lemonade

2009 was not the year that most small banks undertook groundbreaking tech projects, but this year's ranking of the Top Community Bank IT projects found some great examples.

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Alternative Payments

With merchants and vendors developing and testing several ways to spend money electronically, some financial companies are becoming uncomfortable because they could lose out on interchange revenue.

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