Bank technology

Fiserv Inc. is providing its Universal Banking technology to UniBank and Trust Inc. of Panama.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has added an automated clearing house feature to its Express Funds remote deposit service.

Secure Vault Payments, the alternative payment system that lets consumers make online purchases directly from their bank accounts, may gain new prominence from a test it is running with a sizable client.

Mitek Systems Inc., known for its mobile remote deposit capture software, is pushing a new service to support automated clearing house payments from a photo of a blank check.

Despite naming its product Virtual Wallet, PNC Financial Services has decided that its Web-centric bank account should be firmly grounded in the real world.

Hypercom Corp. announced Wednesday a 400% rise in profit in its fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, from the same period in 2009.

Tyfone Inc. is working with the smartphone accessory company Dexim Inc. to offer a sleeve that attaches to Apple Inc.'s iPhone to support contactless payments worldwide.

VeriFone Systems Inc. said merchants' security concerns are driving development and sales of new payment hardware.

Spokeswoman Tara Burke said the slowness was a result of "routine" upgrades made over the weekend, and the slowness isn't affecting any particular geographic area.

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Fiserv Inc. is demonstrating its commitment to expansion of its mobile banking services through its purchase of longtime partner Mobile Commerce Ltd.

VeriFone Systems Inc. reported Tuesday that its net income surged 202% in its fiscal first quarter, which ended Jan. 31, from a year earlier.

NFC Data Inc. is reintroducing the key fob form to contactless payments with its Sqwizz mobile decoupled debit card.

Tyfone Inc. is partnering with smartphone-accessory company Dexim Inc. to offer a sleeve that attaches to Apple Inc.'s iPhone to support contactless payments worldwide using Tyfone's SideTap microSD chip technology, the companies announced Feb. 28.

Fiserv said Monday that it has purchased Mobile Commerce, a provider of mobile banking and payments technology.

Paymetric Inc. said Monday that it has a referral partnership with b2b2dot0 Inc. to promote each others' services to SAP AG clients.

VeriFone Systems said Monday that Arcos Dorados, a company that manages McDonald's restaurants in Latin America, would use its payment software.

A host of providers are offering small banks a way to share knowledge on a wide range of topics where information does not necessarily create a competitive advantage.

Demonstrating a way to make money on a service many banks view as a cost, Hearst Corp. launched the beta version of its bill presentment and payment site Manilla.com Monday.

A fund run by JPMorgan Chase is in talks with Twitter Inc. to take a minority stake in the rapidly growing microblogging company, people familiar with the matter said.