The company unveils a new offering intended to help financial institutions fight phishing attacks and online fraud. Symantec Corp. is expected to announce on Monday a new service to help financial institutions fight phishing attacks and online fraud. Phishing has become nearly ubiquitous, as fraudsters develop more sophisticated ways to trick people out of their confidential information, such as account numbers, passwords, and social security numbers. According to the Anti-Phishing Working...

AdvisorVision 4.0, an enterprise-class financial planning platform, targets customers such as banks, credit unions, independent financial planners and brokerages. AdvisorVision 4.0, introduced Tuesday by AdviceAmerica Inc., delivers actionable, personalized and institution-compliant wealth-planning advice using a proprietary, knowledge-based rules engine that can be customized by the financial institution. The program is an ASP-delivered system, though larger financial institutions can host...

Opinion: Intuit is dropping support in Quicken 2005 for importing Quicken Interchange Files. It's about time to retire this clumsy method and move to OFX. A brouhaha erupted over the summer when users of Quicken 2005 noticed that Intuit had followed through on an announcement it made in 2000: that it was dropping support for .QIF importing at long last. The clumsy method of downloading a transaction file to a local computer, then importing the resulting file into a financial management...

HyperFeed, a provider of high-performance ticker plant technology and enterprise services, brings its 20 years of of experience as a content provider to the challenge of delivering cleansed financial data with minimal latency to its customers. Emerging from post-dotcom meltdown, a clear trend has emerged in the stock market: program trading. One longtime market information provider, HyperFeed Inc., looks to ride this change with its updated ticker data platform and API. Program trading is a...

Analysts say Halloween shouldn't be a scary time for banks and check-writers once the law goes into effect. Technologies will help banks analyze check images for usability and protect against fraud. Check 21, also known by its full name, the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, was spurred in part by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when millions of uncashed checks sat on airport runways for days. Those unmoving pieces of paper, which authorized the transfer of cash from one account to...