Bank technology

The Tokyo electronics company NEC Corp. is teaming up with the Dublin financial software and services provider Valista Ltd. to develop products aimed at the Japanese payments market.

Wells Fargo & Co. said Tuesday that it had repaired computer problems that led to widespread outages and prevented many customers from gaining access to their accounts.

The security vendor Arcot Systems Inc. has made its suthentication technology compatible with software from Oracle Corp.

Credit analysts at Fair Isaac Corp. of Minneapolis are teaming up with the Chantilly, Va., Internet payment service provider Online Resources Corp. to help creditors take aim at those who fall behind on their monthly payments.

Businesses are now sending more than $1 billion of deposits a day electronically to Wachovia Corp. through its remote capture service.

The credit union service bureau PSCU Financial Services Inc. has agreed to use business-to-business payments management software from Sterling Commerce.

A Toronto-Dominion Bank unit has developed a debt-tracking tool for users of the social networking Web site FaceBook.com.

Obopay Inc. says its person-to-person mobile phone payment system has become an unexpected hit among the underbanked.

APACS, the U.K. payments association, is encouraging consumers to keep their personal identification numbers secure when using chip-and-PIN cards.

Global Payments Inc. of Atlanta has agreed to provide transaction processing services to Postbank BH of Sarajevo for five years.

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Earnings were up for AirNet Systems Inc. in the second quarter, despite declining revenue as banks shipped fewer checks with the Columbus, Ohio, air courier.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, has approved a rule designed to make international automated clearing house transactions easier for government agencies to monitor for signs of terrorism or crime.

The number of items carried on The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC's SVPCO Image Payment Network last month more than quadrupled from a year earlier, to 245 million.

Total System Services Inc. said Wednesday that it has promoted two executives, including one who run its global payment services group.

Stillwater National Bank and Trust Co., a unit of Southwest Bancorp Inc. in Stillwater, Okla., said it used software from TriGeo Network Security Inc. to make sure there was no danger in linking its network with that of Bank of Kansas, which it bought last month.

TheBank of Edwardsville in Illinois is using automated teller machine imaging software from Wausau Financial Systems Inc. of Mosinee, Wis.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, has approved a rule designed to make international automated clearing house transactions easier for government agencies to monitor for signs of terrorism or crime.