Payments Featured Articles

• SWIFT Increasingly Serves Securities Industry, New Head Shows
  
• Steitz Named CIO for Barclaycard US
  
• Barclays Reports 1m UK Customers Online, Zero Fraud
  
• Treasury’s GoDirect Direct Deposit Campaign a Hit
  
• SWIFT and DTCC Team Up for Global Message Standards
  
• SWIFT Expands to West Coast
  
• Debit Card Growth Slows, But Opportunities for Expansion Exist
  Debit card transaction growth slowed in 2007, but there are new opportunities for debit innovation, PULSE says.
• New Javelin Study Finds Untapped Market for Mobile Banking
  Banks should look beyond Web banking customers for new mobile banking users, Javelin says.
• NACHA’s McEntee to Retire as CEO; U.S. Bank’s Estep to Replace Him
  Longtime NACHA CEO Elliott McEntee will be replaced by former U.S. Bank executive Janet Estep.
• The Royal Bank of Scotland Signs with Accountis
  
• Alacriti Introduces OrbiPay Software
  
• ProfitStars Improve RemitPlus
  
• Fidelity National Partners with NACHA for Secure Vault Program
  
• Commerce State Bank Moves to Metavante
  
• Delanco Federal Savings Bank Chooses Fiserv VISION Cleartouch
  
• S1 Teams up with Cickatell
  
• BB&T Selects InterConnect for Better Costumer Service
  
• ClairMail Partners with WAUSAU for Mobile Payments
  
• Vaughan Promoted to CEO at Laru
  
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  The new generation of core banking platforms promises to improve agility and customer insight through streamlined systems integration. And intensifying competitive forces increasingly are driving banks to consider core system replacements.
• NACHA NEWS: JPMorgan Chase Announces First Customer for Image Cash Letter Product
  
• Fox Chase Promotes Lynch to Chief Payments Officer
  Keiron Lynch will focus on helping customers understand the new payments landscape.
• Contactless Payments Are a Stepping-Stone to Mobile
  Contactless payments are a necessary stopover on the road to mobile payments, Javelin Strategy & Research says.
• Banks Eye Opportunities in Healthcare Beyond HSAs
  Banks are creating end-to-end solutions to drive paper out of the healthcare payments chain.
• Janet Estep Named New NACHA CEO
  
• Enterprise Payments Architectures Are Gaining Ground at Banks
  Building an enterprise payments architecture is a huge undertaking, but one that may be necessary to remain competitive in the payments business. Banks are starting to turn their dreams of a holistic payments system into a reality -- improving efficiency, oversight and service in the process.
• Fiserv to Help Banks In Check 21 Transition
  
• Fiserv Streamlines Dispute Resolution With New Version of CheckFree
  The newest version of CheckFree Adjustments/Express offers a single-module, image-based solution for easier processing of payment disputes.
• NACHA’s EBIDS Program Goes Live
  
• BB&T Joins Supply Chain Forum
  
• BofA Awarded Patent on Card Technology
  
• International Payments Framework Organization to Standardize Cross-Border Payments
  The International Payments Framework aims to bring standards to cross-border payments.
• Banks Adopting More Strategies to Court Underbanked
  Automation is making it easier and more profitable for financial institutions to provide services to lower-income customers. And offerings such as check cashing and money transfers are enticing the underbanked to form relationships with banks.
• Afric Express and Cyphermint Bring Mobile Payments to Ghana
  
• Huntington Bank Picks Panini for Remote Deposit
  
• New Five Dollar Bill Issued
  
• Ameriprise Financial Offers New Suite of MasterCard-based Products
  
• BISS Says SEPA Efforts Too Bank-Centric
  SEPA efforts still leave corporates without enough direction from their banks.
• Health Savings Accounts Present Huge Opportunity to Banks
  Health Savings Accounts HSAs offer banks an opportunity to attract new deposits and deepen business banking relationships. But the extent to which they must service account holders, plus banks' ability to navigate regulatory requirements, may determine if they can seize that opportunity.
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