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News/Electronic bill presentment and payment
US Web banking and EBPP vendor Online Resources has signed a definitive agreement to acquire biller service provider (BSP) Internet Transaction Solutions (ITS) for $45 million in stock and cash.
27 July 2007
Citibank is launching a new service in Malaysia that will enable its customers to pay bills using their mobile handsets.
20 July 2007
Ceská sporitelna, the largest commercial bank in the Czech Republic, is introducing a business-to-business electronic invoicing service based on technology supplied by Nordic vendor TietoEnator.
27 June 2007
Texas-based money order firm Fidelity Express is teaming with e-payments outfit Cyphermint to launch a service that will enable its customers to pay bills using their mobile handsets.
20 April 2007
Customers who pay bills through their bank’s Website are more satisfied with the bank and the online banking experience than those who don’t, and are significantly more likely to purchase additional services from the bank, according to a study by ForeSee results and Forbes.
17 April 2007
A US survey of online households, released by CheckFree, shows that the number of bills paid electronically via the Internet now exceeds the number paid by paper cheques.
13 April 2007
US e-payments firm CheckFree has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that directors deliberately misled investors by issuing false and misleading statements between 4th April and 1st August last year that artificially inflated the company's share price. The news comes amid rumours that CheckFree stands to lose a major part of a lucrative contract with its biggest customer, Bank of America.
12 April 2007
Scandinavian bank Nordea has won a deal to provide electronic invoicing and payment services to Finland's Ministry of Finance for the next four years.
09 March 2007
American Express has launched S2S eInvoice&Pay, an online integrated electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) system aimed at its corporate customers.
UK payments and clearing network Voca is merging with Link, operator of the country's cash machine network, to form a European payments processor that will handle over eight billion transactions a year.
06 March 2007
UK banking group Alliance & Leicester (A&L) says the number of bill payments made via its automated BillPay Web site increased by 37% in 2006 and passed the one million mark for the first time.
02 March 2007
US e-payments firm CheckFree has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Internet banking systems vendor Corillian Corporation for $245 million.
14 February 2007
US banking group BB&T has begun issuing payment cards featuring Visa's contactless payments technology to select customers under a pilot programme.
30 January 2007
Belgium-based payments systems vendor Clear2Pay has been awarded a EUR130,000 grant by the Flemish Innovation Institute for Science and Technology (IWT) which it will use to support the development of its Sepa direct debit technology.
18 January 2007
US payments systems vendor eFunds is teaming with IBM and Bangkok-based IT services firm Infomax to implement a new payments network for the National Interbank Transaction Management Exchange (ITMX) in Thailand.
12 January 2007
US e-payments vendor CheckFree has signed a definitive agreement to acquire troubled financial IT and consultancy firm Carreker Corporation for a total of $206 million.
02 January 2007
American Express has signed an agreement to acquire Atlanta-based Harbor Payments, a privately-held provider of electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
05 December 2006
UK bank Lloyds TSB has added a new online bill payments application to its Web banking site that is powered by OneVu, the electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) service set up by Voca and CheckFree.
29 November 2006
Florida-based e-financial services utility Todo1 has selected Belgium-based Clear2Pay's Payment Hub to deliver electronic bill payment services to client bank Banco Mercantil in Venezuela.
09 November 2006
Belgian banks Dexia and KBC are piloting a new e-invoicing system for consolidating corporate and consumer payment information flows.
11 October 2006
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