Bank technology

Fidelity National Information Services Inc., which has been largely absent from the acquisition scene for a year, is showing interest in going shopping again.

Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC, a joint venture of First Data Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., agreed to let its merchant customers accept debit cards issued by Tempo Payments Inc. of San Mateo, Calif.

Flagstar Bancorp Inc. of Troy, Mich., is using software from Harland Financial Solutions Inc. to improve retention of new customers.

CheckFree Corp.'s earnings and transaction volume fell sharply in its fiscal third quarter, and the online bill-payment provider lowered its guidance.

The Wayne, Pa., business continuity service provider SunGard Data Systems Inc. has acquired Finetix LLC, a New York technology consulting company that specialized in financial services.

By merging with the regional clearing operation Payments Resource One, the National Clearing House Association has picked up both a check clearing business and a regional automated clearing house association.

Clearing of automated clearing house payments will soon top check clearing at the Federal Reserve banks, a Fed official said.

EMC Corp.'s RSA Security has collaborated with several security software vendors on a set of products to help companies comply with the Payment Card Industry security standard.

The payments software company Fundtech Ltd. said that AgriBank FCB was its first client to use its software to connect to the Federal Reserve banks' FedLine Direct access system in production.

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S1 Corp. hopes that Enterprise, once the Atlanta online banking software vendor's most prominent unit, will benefit from efforts to promote a smaller unit that sells software to community banks.

The Federal Reserve banks and The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC plan to decide by June how to incorporate remittance information into wire transfers.

Endpoint Exchange LLC, the image network owned by Marshall & Ilsley Corp. that primarily serves small financial companies, and the SVPCO Image Payments Network, which serves the large banking companies that are members of The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, have linked their systems.

A pair of industry groups urged the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication to improve the transparency of payment instructions it handles.

Commerce Bancorp Inc. of Cherry Hill, N.J., agreed to use automated clearing house payments software from CheckFree Corp. of Atlanta. CheckFree, which announced the deal Monday, said Commerce will use its Account Reconciliation Package and its Service Management System to originate and receive ACH payments and offer an online positive pay system.

Consumers with Internet access at home are paying more bills online than by mail, according to CheckFree Corp.

The banking technology vendor S1 Corp. of Atlanta has added Edward Terino, the chief executive of Arlington Tankers Ltd. of Westport, Conn., to its board.

CHICAGO  Bankers and vendors say they are beginning to develop mobile banking technologies that their corporate clients, and the banks' own employees, can use for treasury functions.