Bank technology

Count Fiserv Inc. as a believer in the prospects of multifunction payment kiosks.

Volume on the SVPCO image exchange network more than doubled last month and increased almost fivefold last year.

The Atlanta airport retailer Paradies Shops Inc. has agreed to use contactless payment terminals from Vivotech Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

The Skokie, Ill., payment data provider Accuity has agreed to distribute bank identification codes on behalf of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

U.S. Central Credit Union of Lenexa, Kan., is using anti-phishing software from MarkMonitor Inc. of San Francisco.

Fidelity Bank of Wichita has agreed to use identity theft prevention services from LifeLock Inc. of Tempe, Ariz.

Allied Irish Banks PLC has secured European antitrust approval to form a merchant acquiring joint venture with First Data Corp., a unit of the New York private-equity company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Fiserv Inc. has hired Richard K. Jones to fill the newly created position of chief information officer.

Seeking new sources of revenue in an increasingly complex payment world, VeriFone Holdings Inc. is starting to offer services designed to help retailers and processors install and integrate its devices.

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Monitise Americas LLC announced that 10 financial companies have signed up for its mobile banking and payments service through the NYCE Payments Network LLC unit of Metavante Technologies Inc.

Industrial Bank of Korea in Seoul has agreed to use security cards from Innovative Card Technologies Inc. to authenticate its employees, the Los Angeles security technology vendor announced Thursday.

The city of Austin has extended its electronic billing services contract with Alliance Data Systems Corp.

After shutting down its BidPay.com auction payment service at the end of 2007, CyberSource Corp. is expanding its support for a rival, PayPal Inc.

Wachovia Corp. has been updating its systems to spot employee fraud, and it is working just as hard to ensure that the perpetrators are convicted.

Intuit Inc. has attached its familiar Quicken brand to an account aggregation service, hoping that consumers will pay it for online financial management that is widely available elsewhere for free.