Bank technology

The San Jose point of sale terminal maker VeriFone Holdings Inc. said it fired William G. Atkinson, its executive vice president for payment systems, for trying to get coworkers to join a rival.

Bohai Bank of China has become the first company to sign up for a risk management application from Misys PLC of London.

Marshall & Ilsley Corp. said that it spent $2.3 million last quarter preparing to spin off its Metavante Corp., and that the effort has cost $3.6 million to date.

Fiserv Inc. said that one of its five group presidents has resigned.

The Houston air carrier ExpressJet Holdings Inc. has agreed to install cash and treasury management software from Kyriba Corp. of San Diego at its ExpressJet Airlines.

The Redwood City, Calif., database giant Oracle Corp., seeking to expand its online fraud prevention capabilities, has agreed to buy the Santa Clara security software vendor Bharosa Inc.

Alaska Air Group Inc. has started accepting card payments for purchases made during 22 daily transcontinental flights.

Four banks have renewed their contracts to outsource their core processing to Open Solutions Inc. of Glastonbury, Conn.

Credit Union One of Ferndale, Mich., agreed to use UltraData Enterprise core processing software from Harland Financial Solutions Inc. in-house.

The mobile carrier Korea Telecom Freetel Co. Ltd. is testing contactless payments in handsets using chips from the French vendor Inside Contactless.

The Columbus, Ohio, corporate payments software provider 2Checkout.com Inc. said it has started offering its clients a prepaid debit card from Payoneer Inc. of New York for paying suppliers.

The bill payment software company Billeo Inc. says it has beefed up its offerings in an effort to persuade more people to pay bills online with credit and debit cards.

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Visa International and American Bank Note Holographics Inc. of Robbinsville, N.J., have resolved a dispute related to problems last year with a magnetic stripe for credit cards that featured holographic images.

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The Kansas Bankers Association has endorsed a suite of identity theft detection and recovery products from the Shoreview, Minn., check printer Deluxe Corp.

A veteran banking technology executive is using microwave technology to build a long-range wireless data network for banks.

Iberville Bank, a Plaquemine, La., unit of A. Wilbert's Sons Lumber and Shingle Co., has agreed to use a wireless data network operated by ERF Wireless Inc. of League City, Tex.

SunTrust Banks Inc. of Atlanta has agreed to use Basel II compliance software from i-flex solutions ltd., a Mumbai core processing software provider that is majority-owned by Oracle Corp. of Redwood City, Calif.