Bank technology

Mercantil Commercebank in Coral Gables, Fla., is now offering open account trade services to corporate clients throughout the Americas, using trading software from TradeCard Inc., of New York.

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Wausau Financial Systems Inc. had added more than 60 lockbox customers to its base over the past 60 months by capturing business from competing payments software vendors.

HSBC Bank USA said Friday that its core banking system was back in full operation, after a system crash dating to the prior weekend snarled the posting of transactions to customer accounts for much of last week.

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.