Fidelity National Information Services, formerly known as Certegy, has announced a three-year exclusive agreement with Official Payments Corp., a subsidiary of Tier Technologies, to issue Visa prepaid debit cards for use in expediting government child support disbursements.

Bruce Mohl reports for the Boston Globe on Certegy's check verification services used by retailers and how the services don't always work perfectly.

Certegy has announced it is acquiring the assets of FastFunds Financial and its wholly owned subsidiary Chex Services for approximately $14 million in cash.

Amazon.com is now accepting electronic check payments - or, as Amazon calls it, "Pay Directly From Your Bank Account."

Certegy and PassMark Security have announced plans to offer PassMark's two-factor, two-way authentication system with Certegy's Internet Banking, Cash Management and Bill Pay system.

Fidelity National Financial and Certegy have announced the signing of a definitive Merger Agreement under which Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. and Certegy will combine operations to form a single publicly traded entity.