Bank technology

The PCI Security Standards Council said Wednesday that it will take over the administration of the use and development of a security format that covers PIN entry pads at the point of sale.

Xerox Corp. is pushing further into the financial services market with a deal to buy a company that provides software for exchanging mortgage documents electronically.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, has introduced a fee structure for an upcoming test of a system to let consumers initiate automated clearing house payments for online purchases.

Kinecta Federal Credit Union of Manhattan Beach, Calif., has outsourced its bill payment work to Online Resources Corp. of Chantilly, Va.

Bank of Taiwan, the island's largest bank, has agreed to use core banking software from SunGard Data Systems Inc. of Wayne, Pa.

The payments software maker Fundtech Ltd. announced Tuesday that it has reached a reseller agreement with Marathon Technologies Corp. a Littleton, Mass., maker of software for high-availability computing.

Google Inc. is enabling merchants that use its Checkout payment system to provide order tracking information.

The automated teller machine maker NCR Corp. said its earnings from continuing operations will be 91 cents to 96 cents a share this year, after it spins off the Teradata division this month.

Bank of America Corp. is issuing one-time passwords for online banking through cell phones and will begin issuing password-generating cards by yearend.

Fifth Third Bancorp has agreed to use the Enterprise Trade Finance software that the banking technology provider S1 Corp. introduced this year.

Yodlee Inc. is expected to introduce an upgraded version of its Yodlee BillPay service today that makes it possible for banks to run the service in-house.

America First Credit Union of Ogden, Utah, is planning to offer its members mobile phone banking services using software from Firethorn Holdings LLC.

Grupo Financiero Banamex, a Mexican unit of Citigroup Inc., has agreed to use cash management software from Transoft International Inc.

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As automated teller machines become more complex, and more expensive to run, Diebold Inc. is stepping up its efforts to get banks to outsource them.

Nevada State Bank, a Las Vegas unit of Zions Bancorp., has expanded its use of mapping technology by using demographic and lifestyle data to target customers more precisely and to focus its media strategy.

Baytree Bancorp Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., has outsourced the hosting and maintenance of its Web site to Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. of Brentwood, Tenn., to increase financial product sales and improve online security and disaster-planning.