Bank technology

The mobile banking technology provider ClairMail Inc. announced a platform that it says makes it easier to adapt mobile banking systems as a bank's business and technology needs change.

NCR Corp. said Thursday that it has named Robert Fishman its chief financial officer.

Intuit Inc. is doing away with the Digital Insight name for its online banking division.

TRC Interactive Inc. said its fraud detection simulations will be used at State Bank of Texas in Houston and Prevail Credit Union in Seattle.

Verifi Inc. said it is offering its clients fraud detection technology from ThreatMetrix Inc.

Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC has agreed to offer its merchant clients encryption and tokenization technology from Voltage Security Inc.

MasterCard Inc. has long offered the ATM Hunter tool on its Web site, but interest skyrocketed when it released a version for smart phones.

Chase Paymentech LLC has agreed to offer card-not-present security services from Kount Inc. to all its merchant clients.

Citi, the first major bank to evaluate mobile transfers, has determined that even the people most likely to consider their phones a useful way to send money are still years away from embracing the technology.

At least one problem bedeviling Washington can be fixed quickly by lenders using existing technology, pleasing borrowers and boosting compliance.

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PayPal Inc.'s new iPhone application is more than a payment system — the company is also trying to make it easier for people to use the app as a cash replacement.

Effectiveness of ID theft protection company LifeLock questioned; keylogging hardware now child's play; another person responsible for massive TJX breach behind bars.

PayPal is in talks to add its payment system as an option at AliExpress, the shopping Web site operated by Alibaba.com of Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Fiserv Inc. said Monday that American Bank of Texas in Sherman has begun using its ReserveLink deposit reclassification system.

Trusteer Ltd. has developed a service that can reverse-engineer new forms of malicious software and shut them down on bank computers.

Many financial institutions' main Web sites include microsites — pages that promote a specific product or service. They're not too flashy or innovative, not too expensive, not too taxing on the technology department and certainly present no threat of overshadowing the banks' primary sites.

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CashEdge Inc. said the fraud management tools it uses for its money transfer services prevented more than $139 million in fraudulent transactions in 2009.