Bank technology

The Monett, Mo., technology vendor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to offer its customers health savings accounts from HealthEquity Inc. of American Fork, Utah.

American Savings Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, has agreed to outsource its core systems processing to the Connecticut service bureau COCC.

Google Inc. has applied for a patent covering a person-to-person mobile payment system that uses text messages, which could move it further into the banking market.

Telecom Egypt of Cairo has hired Convergys Corp. to help it revamp its billing system.

SunTrust Banks Inc. of Atlanta has agreed to license a portfolio of patents covering interactive voice systems from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP.

The Federal Bureau of Finance, which manages the private financial interests of public officials, has named EZPay Financial Services Inc. its official check printer.

The White Plains, N.Y., online debt collector Debt Resolve Inc. has received another patent to protect its system for managing repayment plans.

Santander Financial Services Inc. in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has licensed an automated credit and risk management system from Automated Financial Systems Inc. in order to streamline its lending processes.

Coinstar Inc.'s U.K. unit and the payment technology provider PayPoint PLC announced Friday that they are collaborating on a gift card program.

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Fifth Third Bancorp is using a range of new cash management technologies, including an Internet-enabled safe it puts in customers' stores, to build up its corporate banking operations.

KeySource Commercial Bank, a start-up in Durham, N.C., says it has gained a competitive edge in loan decisions and offers a distinctive service to its business customers — financial projections — by using software that analyzes diverse forms of data.

As data breaches have proliferated, the companies that suffered the data losses have faced more scrutiny.

State National Bank of Big Spring, Tex., has agreed to use a two-factor authentication product from Comodo Group of Jersey City for its online banking site.

Bucking a trend, U.S. Bancorp is moving forward with its plans to develop self-serve financial kiosks, despite lingering questions in the industry about whether they can generate profits.

NCR Corp. in Dayton, Ohio, said it had signed a global reseller agreement with the mobile banking software developer MShift Inc. of San Jose, Calif.

The data security compliance company TrustWave Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it has bought a company selling similar services outside the United States.