Bank technology

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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EMC Corp.'s RSA Security unit has introduced a service that spots "Trojan Horse" viruses.

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.