Bank technology

Submitting and reviewing banks' quarterly call reports is a complicated task, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says a shift to a different file format has dramatically simplified the process.

Business Signatures Corp. is hoping to shake up the antifraud software market by undercutting competitors on price.

Some New York City subway riders will soon be able to use a contactless MasterCard International card to pay their fare at the turnstile.

A growing number of financial companies are using a powerful, but indiscriminate, weapon in the war on fraud: barring all credit and debit transactions originating in nations known as fraud hot spots.

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In announcing its somewhat surprising decision to spin off Western Union Financial Services Inc., First Data Corp. made it clear that the work of revitalizing its card businesses is just beginning.

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The Atlanta online bill payment giant CheckFree Corp. reported strong earnings and said it plans to focus more on offline payments.

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The Fed has given high marks to the prepaid cards issued after Hurricane Katrina, despite some well-publicized misuse.

At a growing number of banks, once is not enough for customers to prove who they are during an online banking session.

DataTreasury Corp. has announced another patent licensing agreement, with the automated teller machine company NCR Corp.

A patent granted this month to Bank of New York Co. Inc. may generate an intellectual-property dispute.

Metavante Corp., whose desire to become a major provider of imaging services has led it to buy four companies in the past 18 months, is now at work on the next phase of that task: stitching the acquired technologies into a single coherent business.