Bank technology

The number of banking brands impersonated by phishing e-mails hit an all-time high of 225 in March, RSA Security Inc. reported.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc.'s board has authorized another $250 million share repurchase program.

Shares of VeriFone Holdings Inc. dipped slightly last week despite a report predicting growth for the San Jose terminal company.

The table lists daily composite stock prices at 4 PM (unless otherwise noted) as measured by market capitalization.

Diebold Inc. said last week that it expects to issue at month's end a preliminary revenue estimate for the first quarter.

SunTrust Banks Inc. said it is outsourcing some paper-processing operations to Symcor Inc. and transferring several properties and employees to the Toronto vendor to support the work.

In a brutally competitive environment, lending decisions are no longer merely about making an approve/decline decision. Rather, lenders must ensure loans can be approved and serviced quickly and accurately to ensure they are profitable.

eBay Inc. said its payments unit, PayPal Inc., is growing faster off its auction site than it is onsite.

While bankers are exiting the student lending market, a person-to-person loan facilitator is taking a run at the niche.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said its planned spinoff of Lender Processing Services Inc. will be tax-free to the two companies and their shareholders.

UreLife Ltd. said Wednesday that it has begun distributing a prepaid debit card in London that includes a photo of the cardholder and a proof-of-age hologram.

EMC Corp. has agreed to offer multifactor authentication tokens from Innovative Card Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles vendor also known as InCard, to customers of its RSA unit.

Home National Bank of Blackwell, Okla., has agreed to offer business customers a remote deposit service from NetDeposit Inc., the payment technology unit of Zions Bancorp. of Salt Lake City.

The online computer game developer NCsoft Corp. has developed a micro-transaction system that it plans to use in several of its games.

The Mountain View, Calif., online payment processor CyberSource Corp. is developing two payment services aimed at small businesses through the Authorize.Net unit it acquired in November.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, is testing an online bill presentment service that runs on the automated clearing house network.

Total System Services Inc. is seeking a bigger share of small-merchants' online transactions by expanding the processing services it offers to acquirers.