Bank technology

Total System Services Inc. has detailed some of its plans, including increasing its presence abroad, for after its planned spinoff from Synovus Financial Corp.

The San Diego mobile phone hardware and software provider Qualcomm Inc. has agreed to purchase the mobile banking software company Firethorn Holdings LLC for $210 million in cash.

The Internet technology and services company VeriSign Inc. is streamlining its businesses to focus on online security, including a suite of security tools widely used in the financial services industry.

LAS VEGAS — HSBC Finance Corp. plans to add credit capabilities to a decoupled debit card it is testing.

Diebold Inc., which has not yet filed its second-quarter earnings report, also is going to be late filing its results for the third quarter.

Valid Systems, a Fort Worth provider of check cashing systems and services, is using security technology from US Biometrics Corp. of Naperville, Ill., to develop a product that its financial company customers can use to offer services aimed at the unbanked and underbanked.

ING Group NV has hired Edmund Steinike as the chief information officer for its ING Americas.

Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock has renewed and expanded its core processing software contract with Metavante Technologies Inc.

Several banks have rolled out mobile banking services in the past year, but the emerging delivery channel is about to get its biggest push to date.

The Jacksonville, Fla., title insurance company Fidelity National Financial Inc. and the Boston private-equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP have completed their $5.3 billion purchase of the Minneapolis payroll vendor Ceridian Corp.

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S1 Corp. has completed the integration of mobile banking capabilities into its two major software systems, and several banking companies may be interested in using it, executives said.

The check printer Harland Clarke Holdings Corp. reported Friday that revenue almost tripled in the third quarter but merger expenses kept profit growth under 3%.

ING Group NV's deal to purchase ShareBuilder Corp. would help the Amsterdam company reach young investors through the Internet, according to observers.

Hoping to tap their collective wisdom, Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is creating a social network for employees to share ideas about everything from the company's continuing integration to basic technology problems — and even for them to solicit advice on personal issues.

Volume on the SVPCO Image Payments Network continues to climb, more than tripling in October compared with October of last year.

The online banking software vendor Open Solutions Inc. will offer mobile banking technology from MShift Inc. to its clients.

The Monett, Mo., banking technology and outsourcing services provider Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has agreed to use bill payment technology from iPay Technologies LLC of Elizabethtown, Ky.