Bank technology

Citizens Financial Group Inc., the Providence, R.I., arm of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, has agreed to offer the MasterCard Payment Gateway to its corporate clients and their networks of suppliers.

MasterCard Inc. has launched a service that lets European consumers top up prepaid cards at merchants, and two processing companies have signed up to offer it.

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Global Payments Inc. fortified its position Friday in international payment processing by acquiring the remaining stake in its merchant services joint venture with HSBC Holdings PLC.

The Federal Reserve banks are introducing new ways for smaller banks to use the electronic data interchange format to help their business customers move to electronic payments.

A German asset management company is testing specialized kiosks that sell gold to consumers.

Microsoft Corp. has pulled the plug on its Microsoft Money application, saying that the increasing availability of online personal financial management tools at Web sites operated by banks and other financial companies had "changed" consumer demand for the personal computer software package.

Intuit Inc. said Wednesday that it is offering a version of its Intuit GoPayment mobile card acceptance application that is compatible with Palm Inc.'s Pre wireless handset, which went on sale Saturday.

SimpliFi LLC has decided that the best way to sell its online financial planning software to banking companies may be giving it away to consumers.

Financial institutions can make customers more profitable by applying iPod, desktop Internet and store strategy to banking.

PARIS — European Union merchants are unlikely to impose surcharges on customers who use credit or debit cards despite new rules that are expected to permit such fees, payments experts say.

Total System Services Inc. shares inched upwards Monday afternoon despite an analyst report that said Wells Fargo & Co. has decided to shift the credit card portfolio it acquired with Wachovia Corp. last year to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.'s First Data Corp.

The European Commission said Monday that, concerned by the lack of take-up by the payments industry, it may set a formal deadline for banks to migrate their payments systems to a single European payments platform.

Andera Inc. announced a deal Monday to offer its online account opening technology to financial companies that work with the online banking outsourcer Digital Insight Corp., a unit of Intuit Inc.

American Savings Bank, a $5.2 billion-asset Honolulu thrift, has agreed to use technology from Fiserv Inc. to consolidate its disparate manual processes using a single, integrated approach, the Brookfield, Wis., financial technology company announced Monday.

With signs emerging of a recovery in the mortgage market, lending technology vendors that may have made staffing cuts last year are looking to hire again, especially in upper management and sales.

The table lists daily composite stock prices at 4 PM (unless otherwise noted) as measured by market capitalization.