Bank technology

Getronics NV, an Amsterdam information and communication technology vendor, is using software from S1 Corp. of Atlanta to offer outsourced automated teller machine and point of sale transaction processing services in Hungary.

Fundamental changes in the way people spend money and the way banks process payments are forcing banks and the Federal Reserve Board to ensure convenience does not replace safety, a Fed governor said.

Increased use of consumer debit cards is boosting transaction volume on Fiserv Inc.'s Accel/Exchange Network.

PayPal Inc. has begun offering its payment service in 87 new countries.

Online Resources Corp. said an acquisition boosted revenue, but accounting costs helped drive it into the red.

Garanti Bankasi AS of Turkey said it is offering a watch equipped with a MasterCard Inc. PayPass contactless payment chip.

Though Jack Henry & Associates Inc. says demand for its core processing technology is growing, revenue for the segment is not keeping pace as customers move to an outsourced model.

MindArk PE AB, the company that operates the Entropia Universe online game, said it has sold a virtual banking license to a banking company.

American Express Co. has introduced a pair of business-to-business payment services in what is becoming a crowded market for vendors of corporate supply-chain integration capabilities.

International Business Machines Corp. has been hired to analyze a massive pool of operational risk data that the Operational Riskdata Exchange Association, a consortium of 37 major international banking companies, has been compiling for years.

Banks that are rolling out mobile phone payments services are discovering that the wireless carriers have become a critical gatekeeper in the effort to put this emerging capability in the hands of their customers.

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The New York holding company M&F Worldwide Corp. has acquired John H. Harland Co. of Atlanta.

The Dublin, Ohio, data processor R.C. Olmstead Inc. has agreed to market bill-payment software from iPay Technologies LLC of Elizabethtown, Ky., and to integrate the application with its own online banking product.

The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, which already operates some of the nation's largest private payment networks, wants to take a more central role in the industry's efforts to address the issues facing those networks.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., has acquired the Birmingham, Ala., customer relationship management software vendor Marketing Solutions Inc.

Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. of Brentwood, Tenn., has acquired DataTrade Software Systems LLC, a Springfield, Mo., provider of data conversion systems.

Sometime this year somebody is going to try to rip off Numerica Credit Union — again.