Bank technology

Online Resources Corp. says it wants to expand further in online bill payment, though its latest deal is unlikely to help much this year in curbing its losses.

Citizens Financial Group Inc., a Providence, R.I., unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, says software from ACI Worldwide Inc. helped it spot a data breach at a grocery chain before anyone else — even Citizens' customers — noticed anything was amiss.

Americans spend twice as much time reviewing printed bank and credit card statements than viewing the same information online, according to a study Pitney Bowes Co. released Wednesday.

Deluxe Corp. posted second-quarter earnings that far exceeded analyst expectations, as a result of stronger-than-anticipated revenue from all its business lines.

The Denver processor First Data Corp. has agreed to buy the Sao Paulo processing service company Check Forte Processamento de Dados Ltda.

Second-quarter earnings reports this week from the banking industry's two largest technology vendors underscored their differences in focus.

Transaction Systems Architects Inc., a New York developer of wire transfer, automated clearing house, and card processing software, has changed its name to ACI Worldwide Inc.

Strong growth abroad helped the Jacksonville, Fla., financial technology provider Fidelity National Information Services Inc. report that second-quarter revenue rose 15.1% from a year earlier, to $1.2 billion.

The Dutch banking company Rabobank Group has renewed an outsourcing agreement with the Blue Bell, Pa., financial technology provider Unisys Corp.

Though mobile banking and payment systems have been developing separately, executives involved in these efforts say the projects are likely to converge as financial companies push the use of mobile devices as for conducting transactions.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has opened a check processing center in Tokyo that uses imaging technology to clear payments in U.S. currency for bank clients in that region.

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Wells Fargo & Co. announced its entry into the mobile banking market Tuesday by offering a service that uses the Web browser of cell phones and other mobile devices.

Bank of America Corp. is pushing ahead with a project to add check-imaging capabilities to its automated teller machines, arguing that more efficient processing and better customer service will justify the expense.

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Banks are succeeding at using the Internet to hold young consumers as customers when they graduate from college and start careers, research indicates.

Bisys Group Inc. announced Monday that its board set Aug. 1 as the date to pay its shareholders a 15-cent special dividend in conjunction with the technology outsourcer's $1.4 billion deal to be sold to Citigroup Inc.

BB&T Corp. announced Monday that it is offering business customers a service to convert checks to automated clearing house transactions in their back offices, under rules that took effect in March.

Bisys Group Inc. declared a special one-time dividend of 15 cents a share Friday to be paid shortly after the company's sale to Citigroup Inc.