Bank technology

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.

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Yodlee Inc., which is known for the aggregation and online banking software it sells to large financial companies, has closed a round of financing to support its bill payment product.

Aviva U.S.A., a Des Moines unit of the London insurance company Aviva PLC, has established a site in the online game Second Life to recruit and train sales agents.

The New York banking technology provider CashEdge Inc. announced Thursday that it had hired a former E-Trade Financial Corp. executive, Thomas Roberts, to expand its marketing efforts to investment companies.

Many of the corporate payment systems introduced in the past few years have been aimed at large businesses, but Nacha wants to promote the use of the automated clearing house by small companies to send each other money.

GreenNote Inc., a Redwood City, Calif., company founded last year, launched a Web site Wednesday that facilitates student loans funded by the borrowers' acquaintances.

Banks are finding that environmentally themed marketing campaigns can persuade customers to change their habits and even buy new products but that the message's appeal does not apply across all product lines.

The San Francisco online person-to-person loan facilitator Prosper Marketplace Inc. says its third attempt to promote its Web site on Facebook Inc.'s social network has found a large audience.