Bank technology

Metavante Corp. has teamed up with a U.K. payments software company to create a joint venture aimed at developing mobile banking technology in the United States.

Mobile banking is rapidly emerging as a contender for the title of fastest-changing delivery channel, with at least six financial companies expected to announce tests, rollouts, or plans in the next week.

As offshoring matures, outsourcing providers themselves are moving jobs around the globe in search of lower costs and better service.

A scanner provider and a software vendor are collaborating on a way for banks to monitor remotely the scanners merchants use for check imaging.

John H. Harland Co. said it has signed up five new core processing customers this year.

EZPay Financial Services Inc. of Chehalis, Wash., is offering a remote check-printing service for small businesses that use Intuit Inc.'s QuickBooks accounting software.

Financial companies plan to boost their spending on anti-laundering technology over the next year, according to a report KPMG LLC released Thursday.

The Hillsboro, Ore., online banking vendor Corillian Corp. and the New York security company Actimize Inc. have combined their products to create one to authenticate and monitor transactions.

NCR Corp. won a contract to manage HSBC Holdings PLC's fleet of off-site automated teller machines in India.

PayPal Inc., the online person-to-person payment processing unit of eBay Inc. of San Jose, Calif., said it has nearly 35 million accounts in Europe, more than a quarter of its global total of 133 million.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said it has won the core processing business of 73 start-up banking companies in the past 18 months.

Digital Check Corp. says its check scanners comply with a recently announced set of image-quality guidelines.

The adoption of imaging is likely to continue to accelerate, according to the new chief operating officer of VSoft Corp., a maker of imaging software for regional and community banks.

SunGard Data Systems Inc. of Wayne, Pa., announced Wednesday that Fifth Third Bancorp is using its Kiodex Risk Workbench risk management software in its commodity trading business.

MasterCard Inc. says its deal with a soft drink bottler will lead to the nation's largest rollout of contactless technology in the vending and point of sale markets, 6,000 vending machines.

Just two weeks after Hypercom Corp. announced it would step up its marketing efforts win new point of sale terminal customers, its rival VeriFone Holdings Inc. is undertaking a marketing push of its own aimed squarely at Hypercom's existing client base.