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DataTreasury Corp.'s courtroom victory over three major payments companies is expected to give the check-imaging technology provider more ammunition in its ongoing patent battle with some of the country's largest financial companies.

BBVA Compass, the U.S. unit of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA in Madrid, discovered an eager work force at the Texas bank, but an otherwise blank canvas for consumer products and small-business lending, since the bank had focused primarily on mortgage purchases.

A former head of Merrill Lynch's family-office services has left to join the Fulbright & Jaworski law firm in Houston.

Cardtronics Inc. announced Monday that it plans a secondary stock offering, more than two years after its initial public offering.

Encore Bancshares in Houston is paying to get out of Florida. The $1.6 billion-asset company announced an agreement last week to sell its six Florida branches, with $231 million in deposits and $86.2 million in loans, in two deals that will cost the company $1 million.

TRC Interactive Inc. said its fraud detection simulations will be used at State Bank of Texas in Houston and Prevail Credit Union in Seattle.

Chase Paymentech LLC has agreed to offer card-not-present security services from Kount Inc. to all its merchant clients.

Rev Worldwide, a prepaid card marketer that targets underserved markets in India, Romania, Kosovo, Australia and Mexico, is now making plans for the U.S. market.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's office charged that a Texas couple bilked a Mississippi family out of $13,000 by claiming to be a debt settlement company.

Fiserv Inc. said Monday that American Bank of Texas in Sherman has begun using its ReserveLink deposit reclassification system.

MetroCorp Bancshares Inc. in Houston announced a revision to its fourth-quarter results, widening its loss largely as a result of additional loan-loss provisioning.

EDIE's been part of the Gulf Coast Educators Federal Credit Union for decades, and she's getting a makeover that will make her a fixture in the credit union and its public persona for years to come.

Comerica Inc. priced its planned sale of at least $800 million in stock at a 3.6% discount to Monday's closing price, and plans to use the money to help repay the Treasury Department's $2.25 billion investment.

With so many banks ailing, use of the Texas ratio, a quick way of assessing capital adequacy, has returned to the forefront of bank analysis.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher called for an international pact to break up banks whose collapse would threaten the financial system — a position that goes beyond that of other Fed officials.

Bankers committed to taking Texas by storm during the recovery will need to revise their playbooks. Banking companies determined to expand in the state have made it abundantly clear that acquisitions will be a crucial component of achieving growth.

It sounds counterintuitive: USAA Federal Savings Bank's customers will soon access a more-secure mobile banking service by entering less information.

Morphis Inc., a Dallas payments-management software provider, has introduced a low-cost, online cash-forecasting tool that community banks and credit unions can use to manage their automated teller machines.

Sterling Bancshares Inc. in Houston has hit speed bumps including a terminated branch deal, an earnings restatement and a sharp rise in nonperforming assets.

WASHINGTON — Four failures late Friday cost the government an additional $1 billion.Among the closings, which brought the year's total to 20, was that of $3.6 billion-asset La Jolla Bank in La Jolla, Calif. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sold La Jolla's operations to OneWest Bank in Pasadena in the second recent deal for the buyers of the failed IndyMac Bank.