Bank technology

Verizon Wireless is expected to announce today a deal to deliver phones to customers preloaded with mobile banking software from Firethorn Holdings LLC.

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Monroe Bancorp of Bloomington, Ind., is using a document management system that will improve workflow and customer service, according to its vendor, Financial Systems and Equipment Inc. of Lenexa, Kan.

Same-day electronic bill payments are giving banks something that has been absent from their online bill-pay businesses for years: revenue.

More check-image processors are likely to join forces with card processors, experts said after Heartland Payment Systems Inc. announced a "bank-neutral remote deposit" service for merchants.

The mobile channel presents a great opportunity for banks to differentiate themselves, create a market niche, and build a brand.

A Las Vegas start-up is planning to offer mobile phone users a type of digital currency akin to reward points, through technology licensed from the Toronto vendor Corpro Corporate Promotions Inc.

Metavante Corp. has revamped its Web site to help people manage their health savings accounts.

Aiming at the small merchants that it says banks have largely ignored, the transaction processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has started offering a remote capture service that can route check deposits to any bank.

Less than a year after an effort to clear checks over the automated clearing house network failed to take off, Nacha has come up with a revised version of the plan and is planning a test for next quarter.

U.S. Bank, the lead bank and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, said Tuesday it bought AIMS Logistics Inc. on Oct. 1.

In its most detailed look yet at its plans for incorporating CheckFree Corp., Fiserv Inc. said that it is considering offering a scaled-down version of the Atlanta vendor's bill payment technology to appeal to small banks.

The auction company eBay Inc. and its PayPal Inc. say the anti-phishing technology they are using from Yahoo Inc. could reduce the number of fake e-mail messages delivered to customers.

Zions Bancorp. says it can improve customer service and reduce employee turnover by using software from Allegiance Inc. of South Jordan, Utah, to systematically monitor what those groups tell it.

Microsoft Corp. says a customized corporate payment system it codeveloped with Monte dei Paschi di Siena Group has allowed the Italian bank holding company to reduce its transaction processing costs.

MB Financial Bank has extended its contract to use bill payment services from Online Resources Corp. and agreed to use its online banking software.