Bank technology

The Mountain View, Calif., security technology vendor VeriSign Inc. has agreed to buy Certicom Corp., a Mississauga, Ontario, cryptography firm.

China UnionPay Data Services Co. Ltd., the joint venture between Total System Services Inc. and the payment network China UnionPay, has agreed to process card transactions for Bank of East Asia.

Shares in Deluxe Corp. dropped last week after the St. Paul check printer said the poor economy and slowing demand for checks drove down its fourth-quarter revenue and earnings.

Online aggregation sites are developing services that parse vast storehouses of their users' bank account data to find unwanted fees and charges.

Shares of eBay Inc. fell Thursday after the San Jose company delivered a first-quarter earnings forecast below analysts' estimates said the value of goods sold on its Web site had declined.

The French payment terminal maker Ingenico SA said fourth-quarter revenue rose 5% from a year earlier, to $288 million.

The financial technology company Fiserv Inc. announced Wednesday that Corporate One Federal Credit Union of Columbus, Ohio, has selected CheckFree Advantage Fee software to manage its billing processes.

As peer-to-peer lending sites become more established, they have had to adjust their business models, and with each tweak the companies seem to move closer to the model of a traditional bank.

Planet Payment Inc. says it hopes the global financial downturn will increase demand for its multicurrency payment service.

A new set of guidelines has given bankers a better idea of how regulators will evaluate their use of remote check-image capture services, and it might prompt financial companies to accelerate their use of the technology, according to market watchers.

Discover Financial Services has started to categorize its merchants by transaction volume to determine how each will have to demonstrate compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

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Last year image exchange volume rose 97% from 2007, to a record 5.6 billion check images, The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC of New York said Thursday.

The Dallas business-process outsourcer and payment software provider BancTec Inc. said Thursday that it had sold its information technology service management unit to QualxServ LLC of Tewksbury, Mass.

The venture capital firm Austin Ventures said Thursday that it has bought three merchant processors and will combine them to create a Dallas company called Century Payments Inc.

Fiserv Inc. says its MyCheckFree.com payment site has become a key part of small billers' bill-payment strategies.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Wednesday that it would provide international remittance services to KeyPoint Credit Union.