Google today announced an enhancement to its Gmail service - one that is designed to enhance login security and to better protect Gmail accounts from takeover attempts.

Gmail will soon display information about whether the account is currently open on another computer - as well as displaying recent activity on the Gmail account. Also included is a one click way for a user to sign off any other Gmail sessions that may be in progress.

This is an enhancement to basic sign-on "hygiene" - and an approach that online bankers may want to take a hard look at with respect to adding to their online banking services. TechCrunch comments on this new Gmail feature as well.

Satyam Computer Services has announced that it has entered into an alliance with Tyfone, a provider of mobile financial services, infrastructure and mobile payments capabilities to collaborate "to provide businesses with an even greater edge when competing in the mobile financial services sector. The alliance combines Satyam's deep domain expertise and system integration experience with Tyfone's complete mobile financial services infrastructure, and will provide institutions with enhanced solutions and technology." READ MORE »

Discover Financial Services has announced the opening of a new subsidiary, Discover Information Technology (Shanghai) Ltd., in the People’s Republic of China, to support Discover’s data analysis and modeling operations. READ MORE »

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We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Sherri Hammons has been named vice president of engineering at Denver-based PaySimple. Previously, she was vice president of data and model performance at Abacus, a division of Epsilon Data Management.