Bank technology

Farm Credit Bank of Texas in Austin has agreed to use core processing software from Jack Henry and Associates Inc.

The automated teller machine manufacturer Diebold Inc., which has been selling hardware to banks for more than a century, is putting a stronger focus on services that go along with the machines.

The Islandia, N.Y., software provider CA Inc. is reselling antifraud and authentication products from Arcot Systems Inc.

A shift by a significant number of customers from licensing software to outsourcing processing tasks is holding down Jack Henry & Associates Inc.'s revenue growth.

Marshall & Ilsley Corp. of Milwaukee has agreed to use the Pointe2Pointe check image exchange service operated by Viewpointe Archive Services LLC of New York.

Andy Hornby, HBOS PLC's chief executive, became a victim of identity theft when a con man withdrew money from his accounts there, according to an article published Wednesday in the London newspaper The Sun.

Australia's central bank is urging eBay Inc. to rescind rules that prevent sellers on its online auction Web site there from steering buyers to specific payment methods and from imposing any surcharges to cover transaction fees.

Citigroup Inc. is on the verge of selling its Indian business-process outsourcing unit to Tata Consultancy Services for $500 million to $550 million, The Economic Times reported Tuesday.

Deutsche Bank AG is promoting its online currency trading platform for retail investors, dbFX, to community banks and small institutional investors.

Metavante Technologies Inc. of Milwaukee has agreed to market a core banking application developed by Temenos Group of Geneva to international banking companies operating in the United States.

The Little Rock core banking technology and services provider Celerit Inc. has agreed to market a remote capture product from Software Earnings Inc. of Memphis to its community banking clients.

Sale-leaseback transactions have long provided bankers with a way to liberate cash locked in fixed assets, such as the real estate holdings underlying their branch networks.

Wachovia Corp. announced Monday that it has hired Sridhar Chityala, a Citigroup Inc. executive, to become its head of e-commerce.

Payment Data Systems Inc. said the loss of a major client drove down its revenue in the second quarter.

Fiserv Inc., building on technology it picked up in its December purchase of CheckFree Corp., has introduced a version of its check-image capture software that makes available to its small-bank clients features it previously offered only to large financial companies.

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Shore Bank of Onley, Va., is using software from Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. to improve security at its online banking site.

New customer contracts helped drive up second-quarter revenue at the payments software vendor Fundtech Ltd.