Bank technology

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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International Business Machines Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are planning to develop branch and call center systems to streamline bank efficiency and improve customers' experience.

AT&T Corp. said the SLM cell phone from Samsung Electronics Ltd. will be the first handset to ship preloaded with mobile banking software from Firethorn Holdings LLC.

The German automated teller machine manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH is planning to introduce a bulk-deposit device next year that it hopes will help it expand in the United States.

Broken automated teller machines are likely to prompt French consumers to switch banks, but the British are more forgiving, according to a report issued Monday by Level Four Software Ltd., a U.K. provider of ATM testing technology.

The automated teller machine operator Cardtronics Inc. reported a third-quarter loss of $10.7 million, after posting a $300,000 loss in the year-earlier period.

PayPal Inc. hopes that fine-tuning a debit service will encourage people to use its payment services for online shopping.

As banking companies continue to struggle with mushrooming electronic data, the Financial Services Technology Consortium has begun an initiative to analyze these piles of unstructured content.

The Russian banking company Soyuz Bank has agreed to use core processing software from Misys PLC as part of its expansion strategy.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, is looking for a president and chief executive to succeed Elliott C. McEntee, who is planning to retire.

First Data Corp. is cutting 6% of its global work force.

The San Francisco customer relationship management software provider Salesforce.com Inc. has completed its biggest sale to date, to Citigroup Inc.