Bank technology

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

Australia's antitrust regulator has signaled it will block eBay Inc. from forcing all its users there to make payments through the online system operated by its PayPal Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is promoting its text-message banking service by offering consumers a chance to win free tickets to the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Bank, brokerages, and insurance companies are all targeting the same mass-affluent investor market, and technology could give banks an edge in this increasingly crowded market, SunGard Data Systems Inc. chief executive Cristobal Conde said.

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Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it has upgraded its RemitPlus system for automated processing of imaged payments using Key-Pay Convene data completion technology from Orbograph Ltd., a unit of the Israeli software company Orbotech Ltd.

EMC Corp.'s RSA Security has begun offering password tokens in the shape of a standard payment card.

Borrowing a page from travel auction Web sites, a new site aims to help small banks gather deposits by matching consumer requests with bank offers.

Commerce State Bank of West Bend, Wis., is installing a core banking system from Metavante Technologies Inc.

Fidelity Homestead Savings Bank of New Orleans has agreed to use a data network operated by ERF Wireless Inc. to link its branches and data center.

Citigroup Inc., making its play for the corporate payment-automation business, has decided to plug into an established supplier network rather than develop its own.

Dynamic Card Solutions LLC, an Englewood, Colo., company that offer financial companies a way to produce payment cards instantly, is using technology from Collis Americas to help banks produce cards that adhere to the Europay, MasterCard, Visa security standard.

Ukrainian Credit Union of Toronto has agreed to use a core banking application from Fiserv Inc.

The number of check images handled last month by the SVPCO Image Payments Network jumped 104% from a year earlier, to a record 444 million.

A start-up payments company has formed an alliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to help small and midsize companies manage their accounts payable online.

The North Canton, Ohio, automated teller machine company Diebold Inc. is offering identity verification technology from Valid Systems of Fort Worth that can be incorporated into check-cashing services.

Peoples Bank of Moniteau County in Jamestown, Mo., is using check imaging technology from Integrated Bank Technology Inc.

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