New products and services from ACI Worldwide, First Data, GE, Jack Henry, and much more.
ACI Worldwide says that Optimisa S.A. will be ACI’s Chilean distributor. Optimisa is a systems integrator specialized in critical systems. (Contact: ACI Worldwide, 402-390-8906)
Bill Me Later says that two jewelry chains, Fred Meyer and Littman Jewelers, are using its products through GERS Retail Systems, a software provider. (Contact: Bill Me Later, 443-921-1961; GERS Retail Systems,800-854-2263)
Carreker Corp. says Regions Financial Corp. is using components of Carreker’s Source Capture Suite for its remote deposit-capture operations.(Contact: Carreker Corp., 972-371-1748)
Cash Systems Inc. says it has a new contract with Boomtown Casino and Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Cash Systems provides ATMs, mainly in casinos. (Contact: Cash Systems, 203-682-8200)
Corillian Corp. and StrikeForce Technologies say they have a product that will let financial institutions comply with the FFIEC authentication guidance. It combines Corillian’s Intelligent Authentication with StrikeForce’s "out-of-band" authentication platform, ProtectID. (Contact: Corillian Corp. 503-629-3770)
Fidelity National Information Services says Town of Palm Beach Federal Credit Union of Palm Beach, Fl., and Hayward Community Credit Union of Hayward, Wisc., are using Fidelity’s Mercury core processing platform. (Contact: Fidelity National Information Services, 904-854-3282)
First Data Corp. says its OmniPay merchant acquiring unit has a three-year global merchant processing agreement with HSBC. (Contact: First Data Corp. 303-967-6367; HSBC, 011-44- 771-748-4499)
GE Money says it has a deal with an Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp. Ltd. to issue a co-branded credit card through SBI Card, its joint venture with State Bank of India, called the SBI Railway Card. (Contact: GE Money Asia, 662 627 4445)
Global Payments Inc. says it renewed its contract with Kaiser Permanente to provide authorization and settlement for credit and debit cards and online reporting. (Contact: Global Payments Inc., 770-829-8245)
Hampden Group Inc. says it launched PrePayCashAdvance.com, a website that automates cash advances for employers. (Contact: Hampden Group, 480-607-5750)
Jack Henry & Associates Inc. says it has a third primary brand called ProfitStars. What ProfitStars does was not immediately apparent. (Contact: Jack Henry & Associates, 417-235-6652)
Intuit Inc. says it has a credit card processing solution, QuickBooks Credit Card Processing Kit, for small businesses that handle less than $5,000 in credit card transactions each month. (Contact: Intuit, 650-944-3856)
MobileLime has a mobile payments system that the company says turns a mobile phone into a marketing, loyalty and payment device. (Contact: MobileLime, 212-651-4236)
Open Solutions Inc. says $240 million Shell Federal Credit Union is using Open Solutions’ core processing platform, the Complete Credit Union Solution. (Contact: Open Solutions Inc., 860-652-3153)
P&H Solutions says that $148 million Citizens Bank will be using its wcmVirtualBranch for remote image capture. (Contact: P&H, 781-235-3424)
SafeNet says it signed Transition Asia as its regional distributor for South Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. (Contact: SafeNet Inc. 443-327-1378)
Skype, an Internet-based telephone system, says it’s using GlobalCollect as its payments processor. GlobalCollect will process local bank-transfer payments in local currencies worldwide, including real-time online bank transfers in countries where that is possible. Separately, Skype says its customers can now pay with PayPal and Click & Buy. (Contact: Skype, 31 23 554 86 51)
TROY Group Inc. says it has a version of its TROY Checkwriting Software – Teller Edition that complies with Canada’s Canadian Payments Association Standard 006-compliant format. (Contact: TROY Group, 304-232-0899)
VeriFone Holdings Inc.says it landed a five-year contract from GE Consumer Finance’s Retail Sales Finance unit to supply GE as many as 20,000 units of its Vx Solutions payment systems per year. Separately, VeriFone says the People’s Bank of China certified VeriFone’s Vx Solutions payment products as meeting the bank’s standards for chip card payment acceptance, a localized version of EMV for domestic bank cards. (Contact: VeriFone, 508-283-4112; GE Consumer Finance, 203-585-6791)
Western Union Financial Services Inc., says that Bank Al Bilad of Saudi Arabia now honors Western Union money transfers. (Contact: Western Union, 303-967-8646)
Wire Card AG, a European electronic payments systems provider, says Bahrain-based Gulf Air is using Wire’s systems. (Contact: Wire AG, 49-89-4424-0424)