Bank technology

An electronic payments software vendor is pitching a service that enables businesses to do something they typically have been unable to do: paying their bills early.

Two payments executives say a new standard for image exchange could stall the industry’s shift to image clearing.

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The Waltham, Mass., micropayment aggregation technology vendor Peppercoin Inc. has introduced reward software that merchants can use to motivate customers to use cards instead of cash at the point of sale.

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NetBank Inc. last week announced its second partnership in a month to encourage participants in corporate loyalty programs to open NetBank accounts.

Swift, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has elected as its board chairman Yawar Shah, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive.

Yodlee Inc.'s new offering in online bill payment is a bet that banks will help push an option that promises to turn the service into a revenue source rather than a cost.

Bankers are preparing to adopt a new standard for formatting check image exchange.

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With financial companies facing a yearend deadline to implement strong online authentication tools, vendors are touting products that evaluate servers' logs of users' online activities - and that the vendors say can be installed quickly.

Barclays Bank PLC has started distributing third-party antivirus software to its U.K. online banking customers after getting over the fears other banks have had that such a move could turn the call center into a tech-support hot line.

The imaging-software vendor Carreker Corp. said Monday it would put itself up for sale, after coming under pressure from an activist shareholder.

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Several payment processors are jockeying for position in the consumer-directed-health-care market, hoping to get their services in front of insurers and benefit-plan administrators now in preparation for the fall open enrollment period.

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