Bank technology

Fiserv Inc. announced Monday that it is offering banking products based on the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management 4.0 platform from Microsoft Corp.

As more corporations try to streamline accounts payable operations through automation, financial companies are seeking ways to enter this evolving market.

Drawing on feedback from Generation Y customers, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. launched an online banking site for them last week.

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PlaySpan Inc., which makes a commerce platform for online games, said it has purchased the alternative payment system PayByCash.

First Horizon National Corp. is considering expanding its use of cellular modems in its network of automated teller machines.

The banking software and services provider COCC says it expects to handle 95% of the checks it processes for banks as images by yearend.

Meta Financial Group Inc. is using encryption technology from Vormetric Inc. to protect customers' personal data stored on its computers.

Though tough economic times are slowing sales growth on eBay Inc.'s auction Web site, its payment business remains strong.

Only 8% of U.S. consumers say their personal data is adequately protected by the banks, retailers, and government agencies that hold it, according to a study CA Inc. released Wednesday.

Bankers are spending more on fraud detection and anti-laundering technology to fend off the shifting tactics of criminals and to satisfy the demands of regulators, according to two reports published this week.

Fiserv Inc. of Brookfield, Wis., has closed its deal to sell a 51% stake in its insurance business to Trident IV LP, a private-equity fund managed by Stone Point Capital LLC.

The London banking company HBOS PLC has renewed an agreement to license technology from Nomis Solutions Inc. of San Bruno, Calif., to calculate consumer loan product prices.

By integrating its cash management operations with online foreign exchange, Deutsche Bank says it can win a bigger share of corporate customers' payments business and boost its position as a global correspondent bank.

Salesforce.com Inc., a San Francisco provider of hosted customer relationship management technology, is using authentication software from Arcot Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., in its software distribution system.

An unreliable automated teller machine network could prompt customer defections, according to a study released Monday by Level Four Americas LLC, a Charlotte provider of ATM software.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. is planning to sell its Certegy Australia Ltd., a provider of retail lending services for consumers.