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#1: FIS

Core banking provider

FIS has been acquiring other firms around the world, is benefiting from an earlier acquisition of Metavante, and has high hopes for its recent acquisition of consultancy Capco.

Although this year it passed up the opportunity to buy Misys, "You shouldn't draw any conclusions about our M&A strategy." — Frank Martire, president and CEO

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#2: Fiserv

Core banking provider

Fiserv this year made aggressive acquisitions and investments in mobile payment technology.

"There's not a single financial institution I talk to that hasn't completely bought into the importance of the mobile channel." — Jeffery Yabuki, CEO

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#3: Tata

Core banking provider

Tata's TCS Financial Solutions unit is working on offerings around compliance, mobile banking, and helping banks grow again.

"If you look at the latter part of 2010 and 2011, banks were focusing on growth and efficiency together." — N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, president

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#4: Sungard

Core banking provider

Sungard is adding mobile banking, compliance help and cloud computing to its offerings.

"The mission is to transform not only the way we create and deliver new software solutions but also the way in which we partner with our customers and partners to solve business problems." — Harold Finders, chief executive.

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#5: NCR

ATM manufacturer

NCR is seeing banks adopt its Scalable Deposit Module, which lets multiple checks and currency to be deposited in the same slot.

"No question, this is our biggest innovation of the past several years." — Bill Nuti, CEO

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#6: Diebold

ATM manufacturer

Diebold has rolled out remote access maintenance and analysis for repair and troubleshooting.

"We have received pretty big kudos in the marketplace for this platform." — Thomas Swidarski, chief executive

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#7: LPS

Mortgage technology provider

Lender Processing Services has expanded its technology and service offerings to small and midsize lenders with the acquisition of PCLender, a mortgage loan origination system.

"We believe that as we get our technology into those environments, that can be a platform to sell other products and services we have to those institutions." — Dan Scheuble, COO

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#8: First Data

Card and data services provider

First Data has joined the Google Wallet consortium, for which it will provision mobile wallets and handsets, and rolled out a Durbin-inspired transaction routing capability.

"When Durbin was announced, it was pretty clear to us that when the dust settled, all banks would be required to have a second network where prioritized routing would be important." — Jonathan Judge, CEO

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#9: NRI

Online banking software provider

Nomura Research Institute has rolled out a cloud-based service that it anticipates will be popular in Japan.

"The cloud can support other financial products. And there is an appetite for a cloud-based solution in Japan." — Shin Kusunoki, manager, financial and asset management

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#10: Infosys

Outsourcer and core banking provider

Infosys is expanding into new areas such as mobile banking and tablet-based banking and compliance.

"We want to reduce the risks that banks have on their balance sheets." — Mohit Joshi, vice president

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