Bank technology

Shares of Total System Services Inc. fell Friday after a stock downgrade prompted by the Columbus Ga., company's exposure to the Washington Mutual Inc. failure.

The Lubbock, Tex., community banking company City Bank was reported Thursday to be planning to offer mobile banking services using software from ClairMail Inc.

The St. John's, Antigua, payments technology company M2 Global Ltd. said Thursday that it had bought the prepaid debit card marketer First Pay Ltd.

Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif., has agreed to market payments software from Fidelity National Information Services Inc. to its banking clients.

Diebold Inc. has been granted seven patents for software that it says banks can use to deliver marketing messages through automated teller machines.

Hypercom Corp. said Tuesday that it has hired Robert J. Miklosko as its vice president of global engineering, research, and development.

One group that may benefit from the unfolding credit crisis is the companies that arrange the online sale of distressed loans.

Wells Fargo & Co. said it is expanding its use of automated teller machines with imaging capabilities.

The Edmonton automated teller machine operator Cash N Go Ltd. will use processing software from S1 Corp.'s Postilion.

CashEdge Inc. is expected to announce the addition of an interface and two module today for its suite of electronic money transfer offerings for financial institutions.

Bankers' Bank of the West Bancorp Inc. in Denver has licensed the right to become a community host for the OnWe Network operated by LendingTools.com Inc. of Wichita.

Elavon said more than 1,800 merchant locations nationwide are using its back-office conversion services.

Metavante Technologies Inc. has agreed to resell check scanners made by Panini North America Inc.

The payments processor Moneris Solutions Inc. said its deal to buy the assets of the acquirer Humboldt Merchant Services LP would give it a significant geographic and product-line expansion.

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

ERF Wireless Inc., which is developing a long-distance data network aimed at financial companies, said it is "significantly increasing" its efforts to acquire wireless Internet service providers in several states.

The Dutch financial company Rabobank Group has hired Unisys Corp. to overhaul its systems for processing foreign checks.

The slowing economy could offer banks an opportunity to earn fee income from expedited bill payment, a technology that vendors have tried to integrate with their other payment services but financial companies have been slow to adopt.