Bank technology

We have all read about the huge impact anticipated from the changes in the payments world.

WorkWireless LLC, a Charlotte technology provider that uses the brand Work Software Systems, has agreed to use software from Tio Networks Corp., of Burnaby, British Columbia, to offer wireless service dealers the ability to accept walk-in bill payments.

The Mexican financial company Ixe Banco has agreed to use core processing software from Open Solutions Inc. of Glastonbury, Conn., to support its efforts to reach underbanked consumers in that country.

Citizens First Bank of The Villages, Fla., has agreed to use online software from Financial Services Inc. to track money laundering.

A New Jersey utility has agreed to use custom communication technology from Metavante Technologies Inc.

The Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit victim assistance group, said it would offer TrustedID Inc.'s IDFreeze product to identity theft victims.

International Business Machines Corp. has landed servicing deals with three foreign banking companies, including a core systems conversion project, and says the contracts could augur additional spending by U.S. and foreign banks alike.

Intercredit Bank of Miami has agreed to use mobile banking software from ClairMail Inc.

Colwich Financial Corp. of Colwich, Kan., has licensed remote capture software from LendingTools.com that it plans to offer to its business customers.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. has reiterated the 2007 earnings guidance it gave in October.

Metavante Technologies Inc. said its planned purchase of the San Diego software vendor BenSoft Inc. would make its health account products easier for customers to manage.

Count Fiserv Inc. as a believer in the prospects of multifunction payment kiosks.

Volume on the SVPCO image exchange network more than doubled last month and increased almost fivefold last year.

The Atlanta airport retailer Paradies Shops Inc. has agreed to use contactless payment terminals from Vivotech Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

The Skokie, Ill., payment data provider Accuity has agreed to distribute bank identification codes on behalf of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

U.S. Central Credit Union of Lenexa, Kan., is using anti-phishing software from MarkMonitor Inc. of San Francisco.

Fidelity Bank of Wichita has agreed to use identity theft prevention services from LifeLock Inc. of Tempe, Ariz.

Allied Irish Banks PLC has secured European antitrust approval to form a merchant acquiring joint venture with First Data Corp., a unit of the New York private-equity company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.