Bank technology

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.

Entrust Inc. of Addison, Tex., said it has begun offering an antifraud network that will let banks share data with one another.

First Horizon National Corp. of Memphis agreed to use check conversion software from the Atlanta technology and bill-payment provider CheckFree Corp.

Unity Bank PLC of Nigeria will use anti-laundering and risk-management software from ACI Worldwide Inc.

NetBank Inc. has sold its automated teller machine and merchant servicing business.

Shareholders of the Hillboro, Ore., software provider Corillian Corp. have approved its deal to sell itself to the Atlanta online bill-payment company CheckFree Corp.

Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC plans to expand its European operations to capitalize on opportunities from the Single Euro Payments Area initiative, and it has hired an Irish e-commerce expert to lead that effort.

Chordiant Software Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., says two card companies helped it develop a collection system that uses predictive analytics to score a borrower's likelihood of repaying a delinquent loan.

A Pennsylvania law firm has filed a class action claiming that the Atlanta payments software company CheckFree Corp. misled investors last summer ahead of an earnings shortfall.