Bank technology

CheckFree Corp. shareholders formally voted to approve the Atlanta bill payment service provider's deal to sell itself to Fiserv Inc.

Deluxe Corp. reported a slight gain in third-quarter earnings Thursday, despite a revenue drop.

The ongoing chaos in the mortgage market affected third-quarter earnings at the top two banking technology vendors.

Bank of Florida Corp. of Naples has agreed to use core banking software from Jack Henry & Associates Inc.

The Napa, Calif., bill presentment and remittance technology vendor Regulus Group LLC has agreed to offer electronic payment technology from ChoicePay Inc., a subsidiary of Tulsa National Bancshares Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc. has been approved to host payment applications at its data centers.

ModaSolutions Corp. has signed its first merchant acquirer to use its eBillMe system for making online purchases through the automated clearing house network.

The Grand Rapids grocer Meijer Inc. has agreed to use an electronic check conversion system from First Data Corp. at all its stores.

Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincinnati has agreed to offer its treasury management customers an online bill-payment service from Online Resources Corp. of Chantilly, Va.

For all the work that banks have done to turn physical payments into digital ones, there remains one significant category of paper they can't digitize: cash.

Bank of American Fork says it expects to improve internal communications and boost employee productivity when it switches to an upgraded intranet Nov. 5.

International Bancshares Corp. of Laredo, Tex., has agreed to use software from the Sausalito, Calif., vendor mFoundry Inc. to run a mobile banking service that it plans to roll out in the first quarter.

Third-quarter earnings rose sharply at Total System Services Inc., despite the loss of another major client.

More than 4 million merchants will gain access soon to an electronic business-to-business payment system through an agreement between MasterCard Inc. and First Data Corp.

AirNet Systems Inc., facing a steep decline in its check delivery business, has started to implement a tiered pricing system and charge bank clients a fee if they stop using its planes to transport canceled checks through certain cities.

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Last month the Office of Thrift Supervision closed NetBank Inc. and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver.

Western Union Co. is adapting its international remittance system to let people send and receive money through mobile devices — further advancing the role phones are expected to play in supporting electronic payments, in this case as a way to reach the unbanked.