Bank technology

Citing security issues, eBay Inc. plans to eliminate most of its payment options for users in Australia and require auction participants to pay for most items in person or through its PayPal Inc. unit.

Bank of Tokyo-Mistubishi UFJ is planning to use anti-laundering software from Actimize Inc., a New York unit of the Israeli technology provider Nice Systems Ltd.

Peplinski Group Inc., a Farwell, Mich., operator of long-term-care facilities, is using an automated clearing house application from PaySimple Inc. to set up payment plans and accept transactions from patients.

SAS Institute Inc. said sales of its risk management software more than doubled last year, as financial companies stepped up their efforts to reduce vulnerability to fraud and poor lending choices.

Royal Bank of Canada is using software from Nomis Solutions Inc. of San Bruno, Calif., to set prices for consumer lending products.

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An alternative payment company is using imaging technology to process online purchases.

Online Resources Corp. was profitable last year, it said, after tax benefits wiped away a previously reported net loss.

The Atlanta vendor S1 Corp. said it is planning to incorporate employee management technology from Resource One Inc. into its customer management software.

Commercial bankers are hoping this year will not be a repeat of 2002, when the dot-com bubble burst and the ensuing economic slump flattened revenue in cash management businesses.

Ripley Federal Savings Bank of Ohio is planning to move its core processing to the Avon, Conn., service bureau COCC.

The Federal Reserve Board is nearing a decision on how to incorporate remittance information into wire transfers.

A controversial amendment aimed at protecting banks from check-imaging patent infringement lawsuits could face new hurdles since its author, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., withdrew his support over questions about its constitutionality.

The person-to-person loan facilitator Lending Club Corp. has stopped letting people make loans through its Web site.

Toronto-Dominion Bank plans to use International Business Machines Corp.'s Blue Gene supercomputer to study complex financial conditions.

MIAMI — MasterCard Inc. has introduced a debit processing system that can handle several types of payments and could boost profits for banks that use it.

The Canadian transaction processor Moneris Solutions Corp. has agreed to buy the Montreal point of sale service provider Keycorp Canada Inc. from the Australian company Keycorp Ltd.

The Mumbai core processing software vendor i-flex solutions ltd. said it plans to change its name to Oracle Financial Services Ltd. to reflect the identity of its majority owner, Oracle Corp. of Redwood City, Calif.