Bank technology

Prosper Marketplace Inc., which is developing a secondary market for loans originated through its Web site, also plans to let banks use its system to resell their loans.

Hackers took over the Web sites belonging to Fiserv Inc.'s CheckFree bill payment unit for a brief time last week.

Osoyoos Credit Union is planning to install a core processing system from Open Solutions Inc.

Fortified with new settlement and automated clearing house capabilities, Viewpointe LLC plans to expand from check imaging, where it is a major player, into several new payments markets.

TCF Financial Corp. is planning to install automated teller machines with voice capabilities to improve access to its banking services for visually impaired customers.

SunTrust Banks Inc. of Atlanta is using software from Metavante Technologies Inc. to offer payment processing services to health-care providers.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. could quickly become a major competitor in online banking by taking advantage of its broad name recognition and blue-chip reputation, analysts say.

NCR Corp. has hired John G. Bruno as the executive vice president of its industry solutions group, a newly created position.

Prosper Marketplace Inc. has promoted itself as a lending service, but several recent legal filings show that regulators consider its main offering to be securities and, in most cases, unregistered securities.

Delta Community Credit Union in Atlanta has agreed to use online bill payment services from Online Resources Corp. of Chantilly, Va.

The $84.3 billion-asset Dubai Islamic Bank has installed using transaction management and reconciliation software from Fiserv Inc. of Brookfield, Wis.

China UnionPay Data Services Co. Ltd., a joint venture of Total System Services Inc. and the payment network China UnionPay, has agreed to process credit card transactions for China Postal Savings Bank.

Open Solutions Inc. has agreed to offer scanners from Panini North America Inc. with its imaging applications.

Remote deposit capture aimed at consumers has become more common, and though banks and vendors consider it a niche service, they say it has become increasingly vital in the niche.

LML Patent Corp., a unit of the processor LML Payment Systems Inc., has sued 19 financial companies that it claims are infringing on its patented technology for converting checks into electronic transactions.

Bank technology spending is expected to decline or rise only slightly next year, as a result of large-bank consolidation and layoffs, including those affecting tech staffs, two research firms say.

First Command Financial Services Inc. in Fort Worth has begun offering remote deposit capture to retail customers of its First Command Bank unit.