Bank technology

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.

Two units of Fiserv Inc. have expanded a partnership to allow customers of some Canadian banks use automated teller machines for free in the United States.

University Federal Credit Union of Austin is planning to install core banking software from Jack Henry & Associates Inc. of Monett, Mo.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. is reorganizing its European, Middle East, and African marketing team in an effort to boost sales across the region.

HSBC Bank USA said it is targeting five markets with its decoupled debit card.

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Fiserv Inc. has hired Don MacDonald, an Intel Corp. executive, to fill the newly created position of chief marketing officer.

Appointing a director from an activist hedge fund has settled a dispute over Coinstar Inc.'s management and direction.

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Shares of Online Resources Corp. increased Thursday after Matthew J. McCormack, an analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Inc., wrote an optimistic research note on the Chantilly, Va., banking technology vendor.