Bank technology

ACI Worldwide Inc. said it lost $414,000, or 1 cent a share, in its fiscal second quarter, which ended March 31, compared with a profit of nearly $15 million, or 40 cents a share, a year earlier.

The Israeli software vendor Fundtech Ltd. said its second-quarter net income more than doubled from a year earlier, to $1.7 million, or 10 cents a share, as revenue grew 18%, to $25.4 million.

Shares in Diebold Inc. fell Monday after the North Canton, Ohio, automated teller machine company was downgraded over concerns about its voting machine operations.

Cardtronics Inc., the largest deployer of merchant automated teller machines, shifted into the red in the second quarter, in part due to higher expenses for cash and its move to bring transaction processing in-house.

Bank of the West is installing an automated credit request system to streamline its commercial lending, improve consistency in loan decisions, and save money.

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Mashreq psc, a United Arab Emirates banking company, has agreed to use mobile point of sale terminals from Hypercom Corp.

With double-digit revenue growth in the second quarter, S1 Corp. may have validated its return to a licensing model for its big-bank products.

The mobile banking technology vendor Tyfone Inc. has appointed Mike Noble, a veteran Wells Fargo & Co. banker, to its board.

First Data Corp. announced Thursday that it would offer mobile banking and mobile commerce services in conjunction with mFoundry Inc.

As the card companies press for greater merchant compliance with the Payment Card Industry data security standard, some industry watchers are warning of a potential conflict of interest posed by companies that conduct audits and also offer to correct deficiencies.

A Wall Street analyst upgraded Fiserv Inc.'s stock on the strength of the core processing company's deal to buy the Atlanta electronic transaction firm CheckFree Corp. for $4.4 billion, or $48 a share.

CheckFree Corp. says it has integrated its automated clearing house software with check-image software from Carreker Corp. of Dallas, which it bought in April.

The Avox unit of Deutsche Boerse AG has announced the signing of a three-year agreement with the global financial cooperative Swift to maintain data records in Swift's bank identification code database.

Harland Financial Solutions Inc., announced Monday that it would provide core account processing to three thrifts that have agreed to use its IntrieveAdvantage system.

eFunds Corp. has announced its receipt of antitrust clearance to sell itself to Fidelity National Information Services Inc.