First American Payment Systems
CardWeb.com’s CardData database of Company Profiles today features First American Payment Systems.
Modo Payments Patent
Texas-based ModoPayments has been issued a U.S. patent covering one time use virtual payment account numbers used for payment during merchant to consumer interactions, specifically during in-store purchase transactions.
Banking with Mobile Camera
Malauzai Software has seen significant growth in banking via the smartphone camera in the first half of 2014. Usage of mobile banking features such as mobile remote deposit capture and mobile photo bill pay has increased as smartphone cameras have advanced in functionality.
Aptys Solutions Adds to Senior Management Team
Aptys Solutions appointed Rose Davis to the position of senior vice president of consulting and professional services to oversee consulting and professional services to better serve their customers. Most recently, a senior vice president with Bankers’ Bank, Davis brings her extensive knowledge of banking, payments, project and risk management, compliance, and sales to her new role with Aptys. Prior to Bankers’ Bank, Davis was business development manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where she managed account relationships with large FIs and was responsible for revenue generated from solutions offered to financial institutions.
FISERV 2013
The top global provider of financial services technology solutions, Fiserv had an extremely busy 2013 with tons of new deals, product upgrades and new products. New products include ConnectedTeller, CorPoint Mobile, Biller Advantage, Model Management: Reporting, FATCA Manager, Mobiliti Tablet, and LoanComplete Delivery Manager. GAAP revenue for 2013 was $4.81 billion compared with $4.44 billion in 2012. Adjusted revenue was $4.55 billion for the full year compared with $4.15 billion in 2012, an increase of 10%. Here are 95 points of light in Fiserv’s 2013, presented by CardWeb.com
Picture Pay Sees Strong Debut Year
Picture Pay mobile photo bill payment app has seen 17 percent month over month increase in active end-users and 13 percent monthly growth in the number of items processed since its launch in November 2012. The product’s creators Mitek, Allied Payment Network and Malauzai Software Inc. also reported that 5 percent of active mobile banking users employed the feature in the first 90 days after its launch. That is above the usage figure of 3.5 percent for standard bill pay on the mobile device. Picture Pay allows users to complete a payment by taking a photo of the bill statement, confirm the amount to be paid and submit the payment to the financial institution.
SWACHA Partners Aptys Solutions
SWACHA Services Corporation Electronic Payments Resource partnered Aptys Solutions as a technology provider for their automated clearing house (ACH) modules within PayLOGICS. This offers a common platform to support all aspects of payment processing, such as image exchange, ACH processing, wire processing, payments archive, Federal Reserve messages, least cost routing, in-network exchange (INEX) payment processing and mobile payments. As financial institutions (FIs) continue to face changing industry regulations, Aptys Solutions offers the ability to consolidate payment processing including an end-to-end ACH solution for originating, analyzing, processing, receiving, managing, and monitoring ACH transactions.
FIS Announces Multi-Year Agreement
FIS announced that Texas-based Industry Bancshares, Inc. signed a multiyear agreement to replace its four-year-old banking system with its core banking platform to deliver faster customer service as well as advanced online and mobile banking capabilities. The bank is also deploying FIS item processing and other complementary services. Converting onto the FIS core platform allows Industry Bancshares to deliver direct benefits to its customers by providing real-time access to customer accounts across all bank channels including mobile, online banking and bill pay, EFT networks and the traditional branches across its five banks.
Mainstay Implements Aptys Payment Exchange
Aptys Solutions payments network provider for financial institutions nationwide, offering the industry’s only unified platform to support all aspects of payment processing, announced Mainstay Group, a management consulting company whose unique expertise in revenue enhancement and cost reduction drives significant benefits for their clients in the financial industry, has chosen Aptys Solutions as their ASP payment exchange solutions provider. Aptys Solutions’ “PayLOGICS” flexible, scalable solution offers Mainstay technology using one unified platform that automatically applies least-cost routing, so it can take advantage of economies of scale and drive out costs for clearing transactions.
Aptys Launches ACH and Wire Origination Platform
Aptys Solutions payments network provider to financial institutions launched ACH and Wire Origination solutions through their “PayLOGICS” unified payments platform. The “PayLOGICS” allows banks to offer end-to-end ACH and Wire solutions for originating, analyzing, funding, processing, sending and receiving, managing risk, and monitoring ACH and Wire transactions. The PayLOGICS system relies on an easy-to-use, template-based method for originating transactions quickly and effortlessly. Community Banks are looking for user-friendly solutions backed with unmatched customer support and most importantly products that can and will streamline their processes”the PayLOGICS platform does just that.
Acculynk Grows Debit-based P2P Solution
Acculynk’s Payzur personal commerce (p-commerce) solution for debit cards announced Gesa Credit Union will pilot the P2P solution for its members, for which Crystal Clear Payments will serve as a channel partner. The Acculynk platform allows financial institution customers to send funds simply by authenticating the mobile- or web-initiated transaction with their bank issued PIN via the PaySecure patented online graphical PIN pad. Since Payzur is not ACH based, there is no enrollment or waiting period for consumers to begin using the service. Acculynk contracts with financial institutions directly and through channel partners to offer the Payzur p-commerce solution to their customers. For it, Crystal Clear Payments will provide payment processing solutions to the financial industry including credit signature processing; debit signature processing; PIN-based processing; Intelligent ATM services; cardholder loyalty programs; fraud moxie risk management, detection, and prevention; and card manufacturing programs.
Malauzai Launches SmarText for One-Touch mBanking
Malauzai m-banking SmartApps for community financial institutions launched SmarText capability that provides registered users with access to account balances and recent transaction history without having to perform a traditional login on the mobile application. SmarText combines the convenience and speed of text banking with the enhanced user-experience of mobile app-based banking. The function was developed in response to SmartApp usage data compiled by Malauzai that shows logging in as one of the most challenging tasks in mobile banking, mostly due to mis-typed information. The SmartApp usage data also determined that 76 percent of mobile banking sessions are short, and users only check their balance and transaction history during the time they are logged in. To provide a better user experience, Malauzai worked with City Bank Texas to make these features easily accessible to the bank’s customers.