Card Briefs: National Processing Gets NationsBank Pact

National Processing Co., a transaction processor, has been awarded a multiyear contract to process remittance payments for NationsBank Corp.

National Processing will provide retail lockbox services and process more than three million bank card payments that NationsBank Card Services receives monthly. The unit has $8.2 billion in outstanding loans.

National Processing, recently spun off from National City Corp., processes more than 2.5 billion transactions each year.

Separately, the company said it won a multiyear contract to process bank card transactions for Continental Airlines Inc.

The company said it will process all transactions where passengers purchase tickets with the airline. Through Airlines Reporting Corp., National Processing also processes tickets purchased through travel agents.

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