Bank technology

Bisys Group Inc. said Tuesday that it would delay reporting results for its fiscal third quarter, which ended March 31, because of an investigation into its mutual fund business.

Fidelity National Financial Inc., the big title insurer and provider of financial technology, said its earnings almost tripled in the first quarter, but mostly because it sold a 25% stake in its banking technology unit.

The automated clearing house network may someday catch on as a payment method for online shopping.

In the war against cybercrime, traditional passwords may be going the way of the musket.

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Fiserv Inc.'s first-quarter earnings topped Wall Street's expectations, driven by one-time events as well as strong internal growth.

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It has been four years since First Union Corp. bought Wachovia Corp. and took its name, and though the two sets of customers were merged long ago, the fusion of the online-banking sites is incomplete.

CheckFree Corp., the Atlanta electronic bill payment processor, said a continuing rise in business helped it beat analysts' expectations for the just-ended quarter.

Two more banking companies have begun exchanging check images across the network developed by Clearing House Payments Co.'s SVPCO, but they are skipping a step that others have used to validate the system.

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Bisys Group Inc. said it is looking into certain arrangements in its mutual fund business and has hired lawyers to represent it in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

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The business community's rapid adoption of check conversion has led to widespread use at merchants' cash registers and billers' lockbox sites.