Bank technology

Shares of TNS Inc., a provider of data services for credit card transactions, plunged Wednesday after the company rejected a reduced buyout offer.

NCR Corp. said it awarded a five-year contract to manufacture its automated teller machines and self-service checkout units in the Americas to Solectron Corp. of Milpitas, Calif.

Shareholders of the Glastonbury, Conn., core processing software vendor Open Solutions Inc. gave their approval for its acquisition by two private-equity firms.

Fiserv Inc. hopes to build its business as a wire-transfer aggregator by using a high-capacity connection with Federal Reserve banks.

State Street Corp. is making a bid for the foreign exchange volume of hedge funds and other active traders by striking a deal to buy the independent exchange Currenex Inc.

Two founders of NETeller PLC, a U.K. payment processor for gambling Web sites, were freed last week on $5 million bond each after being arrested for allegedly transferring billions of dollars from U.S. citizens to foreign gambling companies.

The table lists daily composite stock prices at 4 PM (unless otherwise noted) as measured by market capitalization.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said Friday that it expects to take a $27.3 million charge in the first quarter after refinancing $3 billion of unsecured credit arrangements.

Hancock Holding Co. had to put some of its customer relationship management efforts on hold after Hurricane Katrina, but it has used a loan-pricing tool to maintain profitability on commercial and government loans.

Total System Services Inc. has preserved its processing arrangement for one of the industry's largest merchant acquiring portfolios by striking a deal with the company that purchased the portfolio from Bank of America Corp.

The security vendors Edentify Inc. and BankDetect LLC announced a partnership last week to sell their products as a package.

Intuit Inc.'s shares rose slightly Thursday morning after a Citigroup Inc. analyst upgraded the stock, in part because of the personal financial management and tax preparation software vendor's deals to buy two payments companies.

Hoping to attract more bank customers to its Accel/Exchange Network, Fiserv Inc. has joined the surcharge-free Allpoint Network of automated teller machines.

Citigroup Inc. plans to increase standardization in its global network of Web sites over the next two years by using Internet prototyping tools.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has licensed a portfolio of patents covering interactive voice technologies from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP to settle a patent infringement lawsuit.

A deal with a Dutch mapping company has allowed Bank of America Corp. to put its logo wherever its automated teller machines appear on the maps of the vendor’s electronic navigation systems.

The banking technology vendor S1 Corp. said it has divided itself into three business units, each focused on a specific product line.