Regions Financial Corporation and Fiserv, Inc. announced that Regions will enhance its online bill pay services for customers by implementing the CheckFree(R) RXP(R) electronic bill payment solution from Fiserv. The enhanced online bill pay service combines practical features, such as recurring payment capabilities, streamlined payee setup and the ability to receive alerts, with an intuitive user interface to make it easy for consumers and businesses to maintain control over their bill payment activities. It also enables users to receive and pay e-bills, which contain all the same information as paper bills, from nearly 500 companies -- including utilities, credit card issuers and mobile phone carriers -- directly within their online banking service. Upon implementation, Regions Bank consumer and small business customers will have a unified, digital money management tool powered by the bank's Corillian Online(R) banking service from Fiserv, coupled with both CheckFree RXP and the bank's existing Popmoney(R) powered person-to-person payments service.

Fiserv, Inc. announced the extension of its strategic partnership with Investance into the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) regions to help financial institutions transform their control and reconciliations technology and processes. Fiserv and Investance have been working together in the U.S. for the past two years, and will now expand into the EMEA region where both companies already have a significant presence. A trusted consulting partner to Fiserv, Investance has an in-depth understanding of the industry-leading reconciliation and financial crime risk management solutions from Fiserv and will now advise its EMEA clients on how best to leverage these solutions. The current scope of the partnership includes the Accurate(TM) Reconciliation solution and the Financial Crime Risk Management platform from Fiserv, which includes the award-winning AML Manager and Fraud Risk Manager(TM) solutions.

Fiserv, Inc. announced that Jim Tobin has joined the company as senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Solutions, Digital Channels. In this role, Tobin will be responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day oversight of the market-leading Mobiliti(TM) mobile banking and payments solution from Fiserv. Mobiliti currently supports mobile banking, alerting and payments services for more than 1,000 financial institutions and millions of consumers in North America, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. Tobin has more than 20 years of experience in leading innovation within both large and entrepreneurial company settings. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Software and Services at Blackberry, formerly Research in Motion, where his responsibilities included work on mobile payments initiatives in collaboration with banks and telecommunications companies around the world. Tobin will report directly to Litch in his new role.