Bank technology

First Data Corp. is evaluating three internal candidates to succeed Henry C. Duques as chief executive of the Denver transaction processing giant.

SunGard Data Systems Inc. has acquired Automated Financial Systems Corp., its second acquisition in as many days.

M&F Worldwide Corp., a New York holding company that owns the No. 3 check printing company, announced Wednesday that it is buying its larger rival, John H. Harland Co.

The mobile phone payments company Obopay Inc. has signed a deal to distribute its payment software to customers of the wireless carrier Helio LLC.

When M&F Worldwide Corp. acquired Clarke American Corp. in December 2005, the New York holding company linked two very unlikely affiliates.

Wachovia Corp. has unveiled an online banking system for mobile phones, using software developed internally.

SunGard Data Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it has bought a Chinese financial software vendor, Shanghai Fudan Kingstar Computer Co. Ltd, to help SunGard expand its operations in China.

Citigroup Inc. has agreed to use lending software and support services from Chordiant Software Inc.

Commerce Bank and Trust says it has spotted $250,000 in potentially fraudulent checks since it installed an anti-fraud product from Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc.

S1 Corp. said Monday that it would buy 10.5 million of its shares through the "modified Dutch auction" that it announced in October.

TLC Federal Credit Union has begun converting checks into images at its branches and transmitting them to a central processing site, using software from Integrated Media Management.

In the past three weeks, Intuit Inc. has struck a pair of deals to add online banking, bill-pay, and transaction processing capabilities to its payments lineup.

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Citigroup Inc. has begun delivering dividend payments from companies in the United States and the United Kingdom in the local currencies of shareholders in other countries, under an agreement with the Australian corporate services provider Computershare Ltd.

TRM Corp., which has put more focus on its struggling automated teller machine operations, is selling its U.S. photocopy business.

Visa U.S.A. Inc. has introduced what it calls the first general-purpose prepaid card with a contactless payment chip.

U.S. Bancorp expects to be able to process check images in all parts of the company next year and probably will clear a majority of its checks that way by the end of that year.