Bank technology

The Norcross, Ga., vendor S1 Corp. said Zions Bancorp. of Salt Lake City has agreed to use its corporate banking software.

A pair of vendors has announced alliances for offering remote deposit capture services to their business customers.

Online account-opening applications offer a low-cost way to increase deposits, according to community and regional bankers.

The banking technology vendor Billeo Inc. has struck a deal that makes some of its bill-payment capabilities available to users of NetSpend Corp.'s prepaid cards.

The Montreal company UpClick Ltd. said it has developed a processing system that lets online merchants avoid paying transaction fees for sales of less than $40.

Virgin Group PLC may be planning to introduce an online bank in Canada, according to a Friday report in Toronto's Globe and Mail.

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MoneyGram International Inc. said Friday that it had agreed to sell its corporate payment processing unit to the Plymouth, Minn., payment technology provider Solutran Inc.

Internet Payment Exchange Inc. announced Thursday that it is offering a payroll deduction feature for some users of its ePayPoint Cash Receipts Service, a point of sale service for health-care providers that collects all types of patient and nonpatient payments through a single system.

After a flirtation with advertising and a dalliance with public relations, many bankers are turning to technology to cope with trust issues.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it has introduced payment initiation and reporting in the ISO 20022 messaging format.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is pressing its case for a bank-centric approach to offering remittance services to immigrants.

Whitney Holding Corp. of New Orleans will use Jack Henry & Associates Inc.'s SilverLake core processing system in an automation project at Whitney National Bank.

Tightwad Bank, a $17.1 million-asset operating unit of RSB Financial Inc. in Mission Hills, Kan., has developed an informational Web site using design and hosting services from Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc.

Kiwibank Ltd., New Zealand's state-owned bank, is using software from Postilion, a division of S1 Corp., for processing electronic funds transfers.

In online payments, Amazon.com Inc. is gunning for Google Inc.

The Dallas security software vendor Entrust Inc., which has agreed to sell itself to the private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC, attracted three more suitors during its "go-shop" period, which ended last week.

Cardtronics Inc. has nearly completed the transition to in-house processing for its automated teller machines and is planning to offer the same service to banks that want the company to manage their ATM networks.