Bank technology

The table lists daily composite stock prices at 4 PM (unless otherwise noted) as measured by market capitalization.

CheckFree Corp. has announced the closing of its purchase of the assets of Upstream Technologies LLC in Boston, a developer of online tools for asset managers.

BOSTON  Nova Information Systems Inc. is eyeing high-growth markets such as India and South America as the next targets for its expansion.

TNS Inc. presented a "fairly upbeat" investor conference Thursday after a year of upheaval when the company missed earnings estimates and its founder tried to take it private, an analyst wrote in a note.

William P. Foley 2nd is at it again.

When Emigrant Bancorp introduced its high-interest online savings account in 2005, its promise of the highest rates in the industry made the account an instant hit.

The automated teller machine deployer TRM Corp. avoided being dropped from the Nasdaq exchange at a meeting with a Nasdaq panel last week.

Lockheed Georgia Employees' Federal Credit Union has agreed to use anti-fraud software from Digital Envoy Inc.'s Digital Resolve business to strengthen its online banking security.Digital Envoy, of Norcross, Ga., announced Wednesday that the Marietta, Ga., credit union would use its Fraud Analyst software, which creates behavior profiles of online banking users. When a user's behavior at login does not match the account's profile, the software raises a flag and the credit union can ask for further authentication before allowing the user to bank online.

Verizon Wireless customers can now pay their bills and buy more calling time at CheckFree Corp.'s walk-in bill-pay locations.

The Federal Reserve banks are planning a major overhaul of their check processing systems to prepare for both the growing demand for image processing now and an eventual dropoff that is widely expected.

Comerica Inc. has agreed to use technology and services from Actimize Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. for anti-money-laundering protection.IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., said Wednesday that Comerica would use its Global Business Services to integrate the anti-money-laundering software made by Actimize, of New York.

Another global technology company is going after the core banking business of institutions in the United States and around the world.

The table lists daily composite stock prices at 4 PM (unless otherwise noted) as measured by market capitalization.

Fiserv Inc., which is engaged in a lengthy self-review, has opted to sell its investment services unit because it concluded it could not be a leader in the business, though it stopped short of saying it would apply that criterion when deciding about other market segments.

The social networking Web site operated by Facebook Inc. is moving into peer-to-peer lending with a pair of new services.

The PCI Security Standards Council LLC, which manages the Payment Card Industry data security standard that describes how merchants handle card data, has elected a new board of advisers.