Bank technology

The Amsterdam card manufacturer Gemalto NV announced Tuesday that it is providing Banco Santander SA with multifunction smart cards for use in Spain's university identity card program.

Barclays PLC has begun issuing contactless debit cards to its customers in the United Kingdom.

The Federal Reserve banks are developing a way for financial companies to clear and settle some automated clearing house transactions in one day.

Chetco Federal Credit Union of Harbor, Ore., is planning to shift its credit and debit card processing to TNB Card Services as part of an effort to introduce a new reward program and attract new members.

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Executives of Online Resources Corp. offered a bullish outlook, despite a weak fourth quarter, but they would not discuss a shareholder that has called for the online banking provider to revamp its strategy.

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SAN DIEGO — Viewpointe LLC has developed a pair of settlement services that it hopes will help it gain share from rival image networks.

SAN DIEGO — The shift to imaging is happening faster than most payments executives anticipated, and with most paper checks now being presented electronically, the Federal Reserve banks are trying to hasten the transition.

Citigroup Inc. customers soon will be able to make deposits at more of Cardtronics Inc.'s multifunction Vcom kiosks.

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Despite increased interest in its financial management software, Intuit Inc. said the poor economy drove down earnings for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Jan. 31.

Bank of the West of San Francisco has selected commercial lending automation software from Custom Credit Systems Inc. to use in its syndications business, the Richardson, Tex., vendor announced.

Members of a new check image exchange group are claiming some early success in promoting best practices.

The Newburyport, Mass., community banking company Institution for Savings has agreed to outsource its core processing operations to Jack Henry and Associates Inc. as part of an expansion effort.

HomeStreet Bank, a state savings bank in Seattle, said it is tightening its management of technology assets and improving its return on investment by using an outside service to aggregate information from its disparate systems.