Bank technology

A startup financial company is hoping to revive a niche-oriented online banking model that has failed in the past, by focusing on small businesses.

Energy Credit Union of Waltham, Mass., has agreed to use core processing software from the Avon, Conn., service bureau COCC.

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The New York fraud protection software company Actimize Inc., a unit of the Israeli technology provider Nice Systems Ltd., said it has received a multimillion-dollar order from a top 5 retail banking company in the United Kingdom.

Fiserv Inc. is offering an "adoption marketing" program to institutions that use its Paytraxx service for electronic bill payment.

London commuters could be using their phones as a travel pass and credit card by Christmas of next year if a test O2 Ltd. launched Wednesday for a mobile wallet succeeds.

Though they differ on the reasons, analysts agree that companies in general are spending more to deal with payment card data breaches, and a new study says the increase is more pronounced at financial firms.

SAP AG hopes to use a reseller deal with Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., to gain a foothold in the U.S. banking industry.

With the announcement that three financial institutions are using its system, Monitise Americas LLC signaled a broadening of the fledgling mobile banking and payment technology to include a new market: community banks.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, is poised to implement a new system for fighting fraud on the automated clearing house network.

Coinstar Inc. has refinanced its debt, in part to help its Coinstar E-Payment Services Inc. subsidiary complete a deal to buy a money transfer services company.

The security software vendor Fraud Sciences Corp. said its products have allowed the online computer retailer CompuVest Corp. to increase its sales by accepting international orders it once deemed too risky.

F-Secure Corp., a Finnish company that sells security software, said it has spotted a spike in fraud attacks against banking Web sites.

Fiserv Inc. has priced $1.75 billion of bonds to finance a portion of its deal to buy the online bill payment services provider CheckFree Corp.

With Solidus Networks Inc., the only major biometric payments company, struggling to avert a financial crisis, observers are pondering anew biometrics' viability in the current retail transaction environment.

ING Bank FSB has completed its acquisition of ShareBuilder Corp. of Bellevue, Wash.

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