Bank technology

Global Payments Asia-Pacific Ltd. said Thursday that it has started a service in the Philippines that lets merchants accept card payments in other currencies.

The San Francisco online credit-tracking company said the average score for U.S. consumers was 670 in April, up a point from January.

The Starbucks Corp. mobile payment application now lets users track rewards for their coffee purchases.

The share price of Fiserv Inc. fell Thursday after an analyst report speculated that Bank of America Corp. might move some of its online bill-payment operations in-house.

SAP, a Walldorf, Germany, software vendor, agreed Wednesday to pay $5.8 billion in cash for the outstanding shares of the Dublin, Calif., tech vendor.

A growing number of U.S. consumers have encountered problems using their magnetic-stripe cards in countries that have already switched to EMV, and U.S. financial companies are starting to take note.

Blackstone Group LP, Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and TPG Capital are in talks to pay more than $15 billion including debt for Fidelity National Information Services Inc., said a person with knowledge of the matter.

The title of your article ["Obopay Plans to Shift its Focus to Bank Transfer Segment" May 11] incorrectly describes what the company is doing. When I think of the "bank transfer segment", I think of legacy ACH and bill pay vendors that are already used by thousands of banks across the U.S.

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Automated teller machine deployments increased significantly last year in Central and Eastern Europe, but a slowdown in Russia pulled the overall growth rate down from the previous year, according to a report released this week by Retail Banking Research.

Thirty minutes or less? Card thieves arrested after stealing pizza from Domino's; analyst: protect card data as well as bank account data; fooling antivirus software; and more.

Obopay Inc. is all but abandoning the mobile transfer service it offers to consumers now that it's learned — maybe too late in the game — that banks are where the money is.

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MasterCard Inc. said Monday that it has hired Andrew Ong to head its worldwide person-to-person money transfer efforts.

Wells Fargo & Co. is beefing up its business banking services with S1 Corp.'s automated clearing house product, S1 said Monday.

The improving economy is reviving merger and acquisition activity among banking technology vendors, but some deals could be troubling to bankers.

The improving economy is reviving merger and acquisition activity among banking technology vendors, but some deals could be troubling to bankers.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it has agreed to buy iPay Technologies for $300 million from private-equity firms Spectrum Equity Investors and Bain Capital.

CyberSource Corp., the online payment provider that Visa Inc. is buying, is being sued by a pension fund that contends the $2 billion takeover will shortchange investors.

Bankers hoping to increase cross-sales can now parse spending details from their customers' checking, brokerage and credit card accounts — at other financial companies.