Bank technology

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.

An activist shareholder of a takeover target has reversed course, saying he now supports Fidelity National Financial Inc.'s $5.3 billion deal to buy the payroll processor Ceridian Corp. of Minneapolis.

Western Federal Credit Union of Manhattan Beach, Calif., has agreed to use core processing software from Jack Henry & Associates Inc.

At the start of last year Washington Mutual Inc.'s online banking executives would have been thrilled if people opened 100 accounts a day through its Web site; now it is averaging 2,700 openings daily, the result of an overhaul focused on simplifying the process.

Metavante Corp. hopes to use its deal with U.S. Central Credit Union of Lenexa, Kan., to expand further in the credit union payment market.

As remote capture of check images enters its second generation, banks increasingly are integrating the processing of check images with their other systems.

Marshall & Ilsley Corp., which owns the Endpoint Exchange image exchange network, has connected its M&I Bank to The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC's SVPCO Image Payments Network.