Bank technology

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.

Two financial management Web site operators are rolling out services that expand on their efforts to combine elements of banking and social networking.

Fair Isaac Corp. has started an online forum for financial companies to collaborate on fraud issues.

An Australian provider of payment systems for taxis has agreed to buy 20,000 mobile terminals from VeriFone Holdings Inc., the San Jose, Calif., terminal maker said on Thursday.

Wealthy consumers are more likely to conduct their banking at a branch than they are through any automated channel, according to a report the Chicago market research firm Mintel International Group Ltd. released this week.

Bremer Financial Corp. of St. Paul is planning to offer its small-business customers an online bill payment service from Fiserv Inc.'s CheckFree.

Mercantile Bank and Trust Co. of Boston said it has increased its deposit base by offering business customers remote deposit software from COCC.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. is going after a larger share of the document management business by offering a hosted image archive service.

The online loan facilitator Prosper Marketplace Inc. has begun publishing details about how users plan to use the funds they borrow through its Web site.

The payments software company ACI Worldwide Inc. plans to sunset some of its older products as part of a restructuring, executives said Tuesday.