Bank technology

One quarter of bankers say they may not be ready to process international automated clearing house transactions by the time new rules take effect in March, according to a survey conducted by the Boston research firm Aite Group LLC.

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Bank of Montreal is expanding its commercial card operations into a broader spending management system for its corporate clients using technology from the payments software vendor Ariba Inc.

Paper check volume is expected to fall to 17.9 billion items next year, according to a report TowerGroup released last week.

Fiserv Inc.'s credit union division has signed five clients for its core processing services.

The Israeli computer security firm Trusteer Ltd. said Thursday that it has enhanced its Rapport anti-phishing service to better combat the latest fraud techniques.

DealerTrack Holdings Inc. has announced the connection of a 700th financing source to its online auto lending network.

British financial software vendor Misys PLC — reporting Thursday that its profit almost tripled in the fiscal year ended on May 31 — said that its financial turnaround is ahead of expectations.

Navy Federal Credit Union has joined Nacha, becoming the 25th direct financial institution member of the electronic payments association, the group has announced.

The Denver automated teller machine seller Pendum LLC said Thursday that Northeast Credit Union in Portsmouth, N.H., a client for 15 years, is replacing its ATMs with upgraded machines.

Banco do Brasil SA, the largest retail bank in Brazil, wants to use technology from Fiserv Inc. to enter the U.S. retail business, with an emphasis on serving the unbanked and underbanked.

The Spanish banking company Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA has begun testing a personal finance tool on its Web site, the vendor Strands Inc. says.

Compliance Coach Inc., a San Diego consulting firm, said Harland Financial Solutions Inc. will market its Web-based service for compliance with "red-flag" rules to detect identity theft.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Wednesday that it has opened two more international image deposit centers, in Taipei and Bangkok.

The Bankers Bank, an Oklahoma City correspondent, has begun offering image exchange using a new Web-based, hosted service from the Endpoint Exchange LLC unit of Metavante Technologies Inc.

The co-founder and two other executives of a money transfer company called e-gold Ltd. have pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and illegal money transmitting.

Yodlee Inc. has begun selling its same-day bill-payment product as an add-on to rival bill-payment systems.

Revenue more than doubled at USA Technologies Inc. in its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 30, and so did the number of vending machines on its network that can accept card payments.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. said it has received an extension to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange through Oct. 31 as it continues trying to restate its financial results for the first three quarters of fiscal 2007.