Bank technology

Though transaction growth and earnings have been slow this year for companies that deploy automated teller machines at merchant sites, manufacturers of those machines say they are finding other growth opportunities.

Deluxe Corp., the nation's largest check printer, has extended its takeover defense plan for another decade, with some tweaks.

AmSouth Bancorp of Birmingham, Ala., improved the efficiency of its Birmingham data center and reduced accidents by using a computer system that contains a visual representation of the facility to manage it.

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Smithtown Bancorp of Hauppauge, N.Y., has agreed to use core processing software and other applications from Jack Henry & Associates Inc. to help its expansion plans.

Synovus Financial Corp. says it has saved money and improved its customers' experience by integrating a growing array of in-house and outsourced data processing systems.

The security software vendor Actimize Inc. has agreed to make its products compatible with technology from 41st Parameter Inc.

Nevada State Bank says it expects to make better decisions about where to build branches in the booming Las Vegas market by combining in-house data with publicly available information using a visual mapping tool.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in a re-examination, has dealt a serious blow to a payment processor that has sued many of the nation's largest financial institutions over a patented process for creating and storing digital check images.

The brokerage technology vendor Scivantage Inc. is developing a security system that uses challenge questions with dynamic answers, making them more resistant to keyloggers.

Intuit Inc., an electronic banking pioneer that has largely been eclipsed by online banking, hopes to regain its prominence in that market by acquiring the technology vendor Digital Insight Corp.

The Federal Reserve said Thursday that its FedLine Advantage online access system had returned to normal operation after glitches earlier in the week snarled automated clearing house access for hundreds of financial companies.

More than 100 U.S. banks are using multifactor authentication tokens from Vasco Data Security International Inc.

As payments executives mull ways to include invoice details within wire transfers, a trans-Atlantic conflict seems to be brewing over which data standard to use.

Interac Association, MasterCard Canada Inc., and Visa Canada Association are planning to test smart cards in Canada next year.

Suncorp Group, Australia's sixth-largest banking company, has expanded its planned use of reconciliation software from CheckFree Corp. Last month Suncorp said that it would use the Accurate NXG software to replace a largely manual process for mitigating operational risk in some accounts at its three major business units. On Tuesday, CheckFree said that Suncorp planned to quadruple the number of accounts it would reconcile with the software.

The antifraud software vendor Covelight Systems Inc. will offer its customers a security tool from Quova Inc.