Bank technology

The French payment terminal maker Ingenico Group has agreed to acquire the Sagem Securite unit of the French manufacturing conglomerate Safran Group.

Credit Union 24 Inc., an independent Tallahassee, Fla., electronic funds transfer cooperative serving 500 credit unions, has agreed to connect its CU Here network of surcharge-free automated teller machines to Cardtronics Inc.'s Allpoint network.

A newcomer in person-to-person lending is avoiding the social networking strategy used by most of the companies in this nascent market and trying to focus instead on reducing risk.

ACI Worldwide Inc. postponed the filing last week of results for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.

Fiserv Inc. has lined up a $450 million credit line to help finance its purchase of CheckFree Corp.

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Two Colombian banks are offering mobile banking services using technology from the smart card maker Gemalto NV.

Michigan State University Federal Credit Union of East Lansing has agreed to use online bill payment services from iPay Technologies LLC of Elizabethtown, Ky.

A startup financial company is hoping to revive a niche-oriented online banking model that has failed in the past, by focusing on small businesses.

Energy Credit Union of Waltham, Mass., has agreed to use core processing software from the Avon, Conn., service bureau COCC.

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The New York fraud protection software company Actimize Inc., a unit of the Israeli technology provider Nice Systems Ltd., said it has received a multimillion-dollar order from a top 5 retail banking company in the United Kingdom.

Fiserv Inc. is offering an "adoption marketing" program to institutions that use its Paytraxx service for electronic bill payment.

London commuters could be using their phones as a travel pass and credit card by Christmas of next year if a test O2 Ltd. launched Wednesday for a mobile wallet succeeds.

Though they differ on the reasons, analysts agree that companies in general are spending more to deal with payment card data breaches, and a new study says the increase is more pronounced at financial firms.

SAP AG hopes to use a reseller deal with Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., to gain a foothold in the U.S. banking industry.

With the announcement that three financial institutions are using its system, Monitise Americas LLC signaled a broadening of the fledgling mobile banking and payment technology to include a new market: community banks.