Bank technology

Bankers experimenting with online video promotions find the format works best, not as a one-time event, but as an ongoing series.

Tradeweb LLC, a Jersey City electronic trading system provider jointly owned by Thomson Reuters Corp. and nine financial companies, has acquired the brokerage company Hilliard Farber & Co. Inc.

First Data Corp. has scrapped its plan to acquire the Atlanta gift card provider Interactive Communications Inc.

Online Resources Corp. posted a loss for the third quarter, despite some significant new customers, and it narrowed its full-year guidance on concerns about the economy.

S1 Corp.'s Postilion unit said Tuesday that eService SA, the acquiring unit of Poland's PKO Bank Polski SA, plans to use more components of the Postilion merchant acquiring offering.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. reported slower revenue growth and a lower profit for its first fiscal quarter, but executives of the processing technology vendor said its community bank and credit union customers seem optimistic about their ability to attract deposits from larger, troubled rivals.

Card companies are pushing ahead with transit operators to conduct more trials of network-branded contactless cards for fare payment.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to develop its alternative payments capabilities and grow by acquisition in merchant processing now that it has sole control of Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC.

Consumer spending fell sharply in September, according to the financial management Web site provider Mint Software Inc.

Innovative Card Technologies Inc. said that it is reducing costs, and that several customers have started deploying its one-time-password generating cards.

Features come and go with startling speed in the still-evolving online banking market, but few seem to make as many round trips as account aggregation.

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The credit meltdown is sending shock waves throughout the U.S. financial system and into the general economy, and consumers are reacting with behavior never seen before.

Unisys Corp., a technology outsourcing provider, posted an unexpected third-quarter net loss Thursday.

In its first regular earnings report since catching up on delinquent filings, Diebold Inc. reported Thursday that its earnings surged 65% in the third quarter.

Discover Financial Services' Pulse Network LLC debit unit has launched a Web site to answer consumers' questions about debit cards.

Accountis Ltd., an electronic documentation unit of Fundtech Corp. of Jersey City, said Wednesday that it hopes to use the e-billing system it is developing with DHL International GmbH to make a third of the courier company's invoices in Europe electronic by 2010.