Bank technology

Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria on Wednesday announced a major overhaul to the technology backbone powering its BBVA Compass U.S. subsidiary.

Vivotech Inc., a maker of in-store payment systems, is planning an initial public offering for as early as 2012, according to its chief executive, Mick Mullagh.

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MasterCard Inc.'s five-year road map for electronic payments in Australia requires issuers and card accepting merchants there to adopt its PayPass contactless payment service beginning next year.

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CoBiz Financial Inc. plans to deploy a remittance-processing software program from vendor Wausau Financial Systems, Wausau is expected to announce Tuesday.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is heading back to the company as product chief, two years after stepping down as its CEO. He'll continue as CEO of mobile e-payments firm Square.

Central Bank of Nigeria is considering introducing biometric cards to combat automated teller machine fraud.

BMO Financial Group and nuTravel Technology Solutions announced an agreement to pair BMO's travel and entertainment card payment offerings with nuTravel's online booking and expense management tools.

Uproar over an iPhone game by Capcom Interactive may have an important security lesson for banks and credit card networks getting into mobile payments.

American Express, going against its image as a brand for the elite, is launching a digital wallet that would make it the payment choice for the masses — in person, online and in mobile.

LexisNexis has launched Retail Fraud Manager, a platform designed to help online merchants detect and combat card-not-present fraud by automating and analyzing the transaction-review process, the company said on Wednesday.

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Monitise PLC of the U.K. said Friday it is testing a service targeted at unbanked consumers in Nigeria that lets consumers transfer money with their cell phones.

Web-based merchant clients of Litle & Co., a Lowell, Mass., e-commerce payment provider, may begin to protect themselves against card-not-present fraud through CyberSource Corp.'s Decision Manager online fraud prevention service.

A growing number of institutional investors are providing financing for individual borrowers alongside the consumers the peer-to-peer platform was built for.

A growing number of institutional investors are providing financing for individual borrowers alongside the consumers the peer-to-peer platform was built for.

NetSpend Holdings Inc. is continuing to expand distribution of its prepaid cards through automobile insurers with a marketing agreement it announced on Thursday.

Wells Fargo & Co. this month is rolling out an online health care payment product that integrates various functions to help hospitals improve patient payment collection systems and to expand its relationships with commercial customers.

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