Bank technology

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.

HSBC Holdings PLC is using CheckFree Corp.'s eVent software in its HSBC Securities Services unit to deliver automated corporate actions processing to clients.

First Data Corp. has teamed up with Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to create a more comprehensive point of sale terminal aimed at small merchants.

RSA Security Inc. is warning that phishers have developed a faster way to steal money.

The point of sale terminal company Hypercom Corp. has acquired the assets of the payment processing technology vendor TPI Software LLC.

Oracle Corp. and i-flex solutions ltd. said they have their first core processing deal with a U.S. bank — a deal that could become an important test case for the banking industry as the two vendors try to expand in this market.

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

U.S. Bancorp has received permission to operate a banking company in Ireland to process card transactions in Europe without sponsorship from another bank.