Bank technology

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.

The Atlanta technology vendor S1 Corp. has started offering a mobile phone banking application to the companies that use its online banking software.

The Monett, Mo., core banking and outsourcing provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has purchased AudioTel Corp. of Addison, Tex.

Fundtech Ltd. of Jersey City said 25 banking companies have agreed to use its software to meet standards imposed by the Single Euro Payments Area initiative, which is scheduled to go live in January.

The online brokerage E-Trade Financial Corp. has agreed to use compliance software from the San Jose vendor Agiliance Inc.

MasterCard Inc. has taken the wraps off an automated payments network that uses both purchasing cards and automated clearing house transactions to link businesses with their suppliers.

Fremont Bancorp. of Fremont, Calif., said it has reduced research time on automated clearing house transactions and begun to eliminate recurring errors by using specialized software to identify transaction-flow anomalies.