Bank technology

Google's ad service DoubleClick inadvertently serves up malware; a leaner, faster card skimmer; new scam creates fake Amazon.com receipts to use for refund; and more.

The Auckland Regional Transport Authority is in talks with Visa Inc. to expand the function of the new "super ticket" system that the agency has planned for the New Zealand city's public transport system.

Assurance Investment Partners Inc. has added merchant processing services to its offerings with its investment in Veritas Merchant Services LLC, an independent sales organization in Louisville, Ky.

BB&T Corp. has entered into a multiyear agreement with Cardtronics Inc.'s Allpoint network to expand surcharge-free ATM access to the issuer's debit cardholders in Florida and Texas.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is working with CashStar Inc. to launch a digital gifting and incentive platform for using rewards points to buy merchants' proprietary gift cards through an Apple Inc. iPhone application.

Banks may soon do the work of their vendors as they are handed the tools to design software for core banking functions — just as new services demand that systems be developed with greater speed.

The Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof AB and the payment website Flattr said they will keep WikiLeaks as a client after companies including Amazon.com Inc. and PayPal Inc. cut off the whistle-blower site.

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MasterCard Inc. has added immediate fraud scoring and compromised-account services to its existing fraud detection system for issuers.

PARIS — Economic fears that stalled investments in mobile payments technology are fading, but the potential for new entrants to disrupt the market still has some players on edge.

The name 'Wiki' may seem an odd fit for a financial company these days, but a new peer-to-peer loan company, WikiLoan, hopes to make it work.

The name 'Wiki' may seem an odd fit for a financial company these days, but a new peer-to-peer loan company, WikiLoan, hopes to make it work.

Consumer use of the new mobile payments systems could be limited by the pool of merchants equipped to accept the payments, experts said this week at a conference in Paris.

The state of the security of smart cards has as much to do with the financial payoff that hackers stand to gain from unraveling the data inside them as it does protecting the technology.

SunTrust keeps embracing new payments systems rather than try to steer customers to the older payment types that most banks favor.

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MasterCard said its SecureCode payment verification system experienced disruptions temporarily Wednesday as part of an attack that also took out its main website.

Harland Financial Solutions Inc. said Tuesday that it has purchased uMonitor of Memphis, Tenn.

Visa is making mobile payments chips available to any of its partner banks, a move that pushes it ahead of rivals largely still in smaller tests with competing technologies.

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