Bank technology

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.

HSBC Bank Canada said Monday that it has begun waiving checking account fees for new customers who agree to handle most of their banking electronically.

CyberSource Corp., which sells payment processing and risk management software, and Trustwave Holdings Inc. in Chicago, which offers compliance validation programs, announced a cross-marketing agreement Monday.

TraceSecurity Inc. said Monday that it is working with the credit union technology vendor Wescom Resources Group LLC of Pasadena, Calif., to offer its security services to credit unions.

TNR Entertainment Corp., which operates a network of self-service DVD rental machines, has named NCR Corp. its exclusive kiosk supplier.

By releasing second-quarter figures, Diebold Inc. got the chance Monday to justify its March decision not to yield to an unsolicited buyout offer from United Technologies Corp.

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The Chinese payment terminal company Shanghai Sand Information Technology System Co Ltd. has agreed to use payment validation software from Trustwave Holdings Inc. to verify that its terminals adhere to multiple security standards.

The technology vendor 3i Infotech Ltd. plans to use its acquisition of the Napa, Calif., lockbox operator and bill printer Regulus Group LLC to expand its operations in North America.

VeriSign Inc. is offering new software, set to be announced today, that it says can stop pump-and-dump trading schemes.