Bank technology

Cara Operations Ltd., a Toronto restaurant operator, has agreed to use wireless point of sale terminals from VeriFone Holdings Inc. of San Jose.

A party Google Inc. had scheduled for eBay Inc. sellers during the eBay Live convention Thursday in Boston was canceled after eBay reportedly pulled its advertising from the search engine.

Liberty Computer Systems, a Cary, N.C., provider of point of sale software for dry cleaners, has started offering its customers card acceptance software from Payment Processing Inc. of Newark, Calif.

The Financial Services Technology Consortium said it is working with Visa International and the Object Management Group, a standards consortium, to create a secure method of handling business transactions.

A continent-spanning payments network is making headway in Europe amid growing concern by bankers and their corporate clients about whether anyone will be prepared to use the system next year when it is expected to be ready.

FundsTech Corp., a marketer of prepaid debit cards for the underbanked, plans to offer a turnkey prepaid card in Europe.

Global Payments Inc. of Atlanta has a multiyear card processing deal with the Moscow banking company Starbank.

The Jacksonville, Fla., mortgage title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc. has agreed to use a security technology from ID Analytics Inc. of San Diego to gauge the legitimacy of mortgage applications.

China Postal Savings Bank has selected VeriFone Holdings Inc. of San Jose as its exclusive provider of electronic payment terminals.

Arcot Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed an authentication application that uses Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash software.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. joined other large data processors Wednesday, staking a claim in Brazil's fast-growing cards market.

First Data Corp. is pushing further into outsourced loyalty programs by offering card issuers a way to increase use of their cards through bonus rewards tied to the purchase of specific products or at specific stores.

Mellon Financial Corp. says it plans to merge three sets of online banking services in the next six to nine months that it offers to wealth management clients.

Orgamation Technologies Inc., a Westford, Mass., company that supplies business management software to schools and day-care centers, is using automated clearing house payment services from Smart Payment Solutions LLC.

First Data Corp. announced Monday that it has completed its purchase of FundsXpress Inc., an Austin provider of online banking and bill payment services.

Banking call centers rank second only to those of catalog retailers in customer satisfaction, though more than half of bank customers say they would defect over a bad phone experience, according to a survey to be released today.

The wireless carrier Cellular South Inc. is testing a service called WirelessWallet that allows customers to use their mobile phones to make card payments.

Warren Federal Credit Union of Cheyenne, Wyo., has agreed to use bill-payment software from Fidelity National Information Services Inc.

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