Bank technology

A growing number of North American consumers want to use automated systems for purchases and other transactions, according to a survey the Dayton, Ohio, automated teller machine company NCR Corp. released Thursday.

JetBlue Airways Corp. of New York is letting customers use PayPal Inc.'s payment system to purchase tickets online.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. has completed an independent audit of its accounting practices and issued tentative results for its last fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31.

The Carson, Calif., payment hardware provider MagTek Inc. has joined the PCI Security Standards Council.

Zions Bancorp. of Salt Lake City agreed to use call center software from S1 Corp. at six of its retail banking subsidiaries.

Global Cash Access Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed its purchase of Certegy Gaming Services Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla., unit of Fidelity National Information Services Inc.

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union has agreed to use supply chain management software from Fiserv Inc. of Brookfield, Wis., to optimize the management and delivery of cash.

Citigroup Inc. has provided new details about its use of a mobile person-to-person payment service from Obopay Inc.

The Phoenix terminal maker Hypercom Corp. said Tuesday that it has purchased Thales SA's e-Transactions business.

The Federal Reserve Board is accelerating its shutdown of paper-check processing centers again.

Citigroup Inc. is offering online foreign exchange trading to individual and small institutional traders in the United States.

United Technologies Corp. has acquired a 3.5% stake in Diebold Inc. and says it remains committed to its $2.63 billion offer to buy the North Canton, Ohio, automated teller machine company.

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U.S. Bancorp has introduced an accounts-payable automation service that uses clients' existing financial systems to generate approved payments that can be charged to purchasing card accounts.

The Redwood City, Calif., mobile payment provider Obopay Inc. has started offering its service into India.

A company that offers asset-protection devices to auto lenders has introduced a linked prepaid card that could encourage the unbanked to make their car payments on time and also prompt them to make other purchases electronically.

Transcard, a prepaid card marketing unit of Innovative Processing Solutions LLC of Chattanooga, Tenn., has developed a system that lets consumers manage their payroll card accounts with mobile phones.

The automated teller machine operator TRM Corp. has appealed its pending delisting from the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.

Diebold Inc., which is revising its earnings statements from 2003 through 2006 and has not filed its earnings for last year, is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.