Bank technology

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.

Personal financial management sites for years have helped consumers get smarter about saving money. Now they're helping them get smarter about going into debt.

Mobibucks Corp., the company behind a mobile marketing and payment service, said its system can now be used by diners at Field of Greens and Voodoo BBQ and Grill to receive discounts and make payments.

Credit unions have increasingly used a marketing campaign that combines social media with contests to find young, media-savvy spokespeople. Can banks mimic their success?

Former Goldman programmer sentenced for stealing code; willingness to interact with strangers of opposite sex a threat to social networks; arrests made in global card scam.

Zala, a startup person-to-person payments network, is teaming with Monster Offers, a Groupon-like "daily deals" service, to tie the use of coupons to a customer's prepaid card.

Vivotech Inc. has rolled out a software suite called Vivonfc to manage payment systems that use near-field communication chips.

MoneyGram International said it has hired Aaron Henry as associate general counsel, global regulatory and chief privacy officer and senior vice president.

Allied First Bancorp Inc. of Oswego, Ill., is using technology from VSoft Corp. for remote deposit capture services.

Littlewoods Europe's addition of Neteller's e-wallet as an accepted payment method will help protect customers against card-not-present fraud because they will not have to enter financial or personal information when making an online purchase, the U.K. online retailer said.

In offering to market third-party software to its customers, Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC is going beyond what many payment companies do when they open their platform to developers.

Visa plans to unveil an improved fraud detection system Monday for CyberSource customers that it says will cast a wider net than its earlier technology.

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FreeScore LLC now offers an iPhone app that consumers can use to receive their credit scores and calculate mortgage rates.

Many bankers expect Apple Inc. to help bring mobile payments into the mainstream by developing its own system for the iPhone. But the consumer electronics company could have the same effect with its advertising.

A severe security breach at EMC Corp.'s RSA Security may threaten the thousands of banks that use its technology.