Bank technology

Lakeland Financial Corp. of Warsaw, Ind., is using an automated bank account-opening product from Fiserv Inc.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is offering an electronic invoicing service to its corporate customers under a multiyear reselling agreement with Fundtech Ltd., a Jersey City developer of corporate cash management and foreign exchange software.

SunTrust Banks Inc. has begun testing an "image integrity" service offered by Viewpointe LLC, which says other financial companies are expected to begin using the service soon.

Software vendors are starting to incorporate money management features from corporate products and personal financial management applications into their consumer online banking systems.

Independent Bankers Financial Corp. of Irving, Tex., has agreed to use the Private Correspondent Suite of services from LendingTools.com Inc. for financial transactions and cash management services at its TIB-The Independent BankersBank.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. has agreed to offer an electronic check processing system from BancTec Inc. of Dallas to a major U.K. banking customer.

De La Rue PLC, a U.K. provider of cash-handling systems and outsourced currency production services, has sold its Cash Systems unit to the private-equity company Carlyle Group.

The remittance provider DolEx Dollar Express Inc. is now offering Online Resources Corp.'s electronic bill-payment services to customers.

BB&T Corp. has consolidated its check processing operations using distributed image capture technology from Software Earnings Inc. of Memphis.

Alacriti Inc. of South Plainfield, N.J., has developed a suite of biller-direct applications that banks and other large billers could run in-house.

Standard Bank Group Ltd., one of South Africa's largest banks, has agreed to use core banking software from Misys PLC.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, is expanding significantly a test of its system for using the automated clearing house network to pay for online purchases.

EMC Corp.'s RSA Security said it has discovered a malicious program that disguises itself as an online banking security tool.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium has developed a set of guidelines to evaluate the quality of check images.

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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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