Bank technology

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.

Zopa Ltd. of London, which operates a peer-to-peer lending Web site, has hired a new chief executive and is planning to launch a version of its site in the United States this year.

Corus Bankshares Inc. of Chicago has agreed to outsource its core processing to Metavante Corp.

Source Technologies, a transaction management software company, is working with the electronic bill-payment kiosk provider ChoicePay Inc. of Tulsa to create a national network of bill-pay kiosks.

The Portland, Ore., merchant automated teller machine company TRM Corp. said it will delay its 2006 earnings report.

American Bank and Trust Co. of Davenport, Iowa, agreed to outsource its core processing work to Metavante Corp. of Milwaukee.

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NCR Corp. said it plans to complete the spinoff of its Teradata database unit by October.

Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc., known mainly as a provider of automated clearing house software, says acquiring the Dallas imaging specialist Community Banking Systems strengthened its position as a provider of payments technology to small banks.

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