Bank technology

The three major credit reporting agencies plan to make companies send them consumer information in standardized encryption formats.

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Moving jobs to developing nations, already fairly common among U.S. financial services companies, is expected to increase dramatically in the next three years.

Banks have high aspirations in security but fall far short of them, according to a survey.

Iconix Inc. is expected today to announce anti-phishing software called Truemark.

KeyCorp plans to add scanners to its teller windows to convert paper checks into digital images as soon as they are presented for deposit.

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With one big bite, Open Solutions Inc. plans to more than double in size, and its chief executive says he remains hungry for further growth.

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In a move intended to expand its role in the payments industry and provide a new stock for acquisitions, Fidelity National Financial Inc. has agreed to combine its technology unit with the transaction processor Certegy Inc.

Fidelity Information Services Inc., which has become an important outsourcing provider to small and midsize banks, is now making a play for the nation's biggest banks through a partnership with Computer Sciences Corp.

eBay Inc.’s deal for the Internet telephone company Skype Technologies SA could also boost PayPal Inc.’s efforts to expand into new countries and even farther beyond the online auction market.

Rowe International Corp. of Grand Rapids, which makes jukeboxes, has introduced one that accepts credit card payments and uses software from Peppercoin Inc. of Waltham, Mass., to aggregate the transactions.

After urging customers to make their computers safer, ING and other banks have decided to do the job for them.

The cash-handling company Loomis Fargo & Co. expects to be up and running next month with a remote check-capture service with a difference - our place, not yours - ahead of its rival Brink's Co.

Viewpointe Archive Services LLC says the five banking companies that own it plan to be clearing all their common checks through its massive shared check-image archive within 18 months.

Oracle Corp.'s deal to buy Siebel Systems Inc., the No. 1 maker of customer relationship management software, is another step in its effort to become a more significant technology partner to the financial services industry.