Bank technology

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PayPal Inc. said it has resolved two legal disputes regarding its user agreement and customer protection programs.

ING Group NV plans a marketing campaign in certain cities to increase the market share of its U.S. online banking business.

The National Clearinghouse Association has established a registry of "image survivable security features" that could make it easier for bankers to trust digital images of the checks they process.

Jackson County Bank of Seymour, Ind., said re-presenting bounced checks electronically doubled its business customers' collection rate on the checks.

Regions Financial Corp. has started offering business customers a remote check capture service.

Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Washington Mutual Inc., and Marshall & Ilsley Corp. do the best job among financial companies in protecting customers from identity theft, according to a report from Javelin Strategy & Research.

SAN FRANCISCO - Financial companies have invested heavily in software to spot, and stop, online fraud, but some say they have found it can be hard to get law enforcement agencies to pursue the cases.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that it fined Bisys Fund Services, a division of Bisys Group Inc., $21.4 million, including a $10 million civil penalty, for allegedly defrauding mutual fund investors from 1999 to 2004.

The Fremont, Calif., automated teller machine manufacturer Tranax Technology Inc. plans to issue a software security patch that would require ATM deployers to change their machines’ default master passwords.

Denmark State Bank in Wisconsin has agreed to outsource work to Fiserv Inc.

Some banking companies are beefing up their online authentication with a technique commonly used to verify the identity of new customers: querying customers with data pulled from public databases.

Deluxe Corp. has hired Richard S. Greene as its chief financial officer.

Belarusbank, Belarus' largest banking company, is replacing several major software systems with an integrated suite of applications from SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany.

Two security service providers for banking and other companies have joined forces.

Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. has agreed to resell online banking software from Digital Insight Corp.

The president and chief executive of Fiserv Inc., which has long been an active purchaser of banking technology vendors, says he plans to be more selective now that the market has become overheated.

The e-mail billing software vendor Transactis Inc. has named Joe Proto its chairman.