Bank technology

The banking technology vendor Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. announced Wednesday that it has expanded its check imaging portfolio by buying Community Banking Systems of Dallas.

Account-to-account transfer and funding technology is becoming a key part of bankers' strategies for high-yield online savings accounts.

Fiserv Inc. said it has acquired a Dutch security software firm whose risk management and fraud-fighting capabilities will be incorporated into all its core processing systems.

Metavante Corp. is pursuing the core processing business of the nation's biggest banking companies through a marketing agreement that could eventually give it a 4% stake in the Swiss software developer Temenos Group in Geneva.

First Data Corp. is hoping to capture more international transaction volume from Chinese credit cardholders through an arrangement with the Beijing bank card network China UnionPay.

S1 Corp. plans to repurchase about 15% of its shares.

Intuit Inc., providing the first in-depth look at its plans for entering the payments market, is hoping to attract small businesses and consumers with a combination of personal financial management tools and online banking capabilities.

Facing a potential onslaught of conflicting mobile payment systems, two industry groups are wondering whether a set of standards would smooth the road to adoption.

Intuit Inc. has priced $1 billion of public debt and plans to use the funds to repay bridge debt it took on to finance last month's acquisition of the Calabasas, Calif., online banking technology provider Digital Insight Corp.

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Last month's volume on the SVPCO Image Payments Network jumped more than 600% from the same month last year, according to Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, which operates the image exchange system.

The U.K. retailer Home Retail Group has installed VeriFone Holdings Inc. terminals at more than 600 of its Argos stores.

American Express Co., providing the first detailed look at its strategy for corporate payments, says it is focusing on large companies with the clout to push a new remittance service deep into the supply chain.

Total System Services Inc. announced Thursday that it has hired Ralf Muellar, a veteran payments executive, as director of business development for Central and Eastern Europe.

Wincor-Nixdorf AG, Europe's largest maker of automated teller machines, said it expects its sales in Asia to grow at least 10% a year for the foreseeable future, driven by rising demand from China.

The financial software provider eBank Systems Inc. has agreed to resell a biometric check-cashing system developed by Solidus Networks Inc.

TotalBank in Miami has agreed to use Digital Insight Corp.'s online banking software for consumers and businesses.

Huntington Bancshares Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, is supplying password-generating tokens to its business customers to improve online authentication.