Bank technology

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.

By landing a pair of contracts to handle some shipments for the Federal Reserve banks, the check courier AirNet Systems Inc. has found at least a small financial cushion as the volume of checks continues to decline.

The biometric payments company Solidus Networks Inc. said it is putting some of its units up for sale and has reshaped its board after consenting to a bankruptcy filing.

Fiserv Inc.'s decision to store its clients' check images in Viewpointe LLC's archive is a strong vote of support for clearing through image-sharing, market watchers say.

Viewpointe LLC plans to announce today that Fiserv Inc. has agreed to move its check-image files to Viewpointe's shared archive.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. announced Monday that Michael Ho has rejoined Mellon Capital Management as chief investment officer.

Green Dot Corp., a provider of prepaid cards, announced Monday that it has promoted Mark Goldin to chief operations and technology officer.

The funds transfer software vendor CashEdge Inc. signed 15 contracts with major banks last year.

Autonomy Corp. PLC said Monday that a major global bank has agreed to use the British vendor's compliance and regulatory software.