Bank technology

The name that Flushing Financial Corp. in Lake Success, N.Y., gave the Internet bank it launched Monday - iGObanking.com - is meant to convey the idea of moving forward, executives at the $2.4 billion-asset thrift company said.

The core processing provider Computer Services Inc. has renewed its referral and distribution agreement with the banking technology vendor Digital Insight Corp.

Oberthur Card Systems SA of Nanterre, France, Europe's fourth-largest maker of smart cards, said its chief executive, Pierre Barberis, has resigned for personal reasons.

Peoples Savings Bank of Indianola, Iowa, is using software from Community Banking Systems to send check images to the Federal Reserve banks.

Financial companies have long depended on a careful mixture of hard data and human expertise to set product prices, but some are experimenting with what they call a more purely quantitative approach: using automated pricing software.

As part of a series of management changes aimed at strengthening its international business, eFunds Corp. has hired an Oracle Corp. vice president to head its U.S. operations.

Hoping to win more business in Eastern Europe, Global Payments Inc. has opened an office in Kiev.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has expanded its check image operations in Asia by opening processing centers in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.

HypoVereinsbank AG of Munich named International Business Machines Corp. to manage some of its technology operations.

Shares of Infosys Technologies Ltd. fell last week after shareholders sold 30 million American depositary shares worth $1.6 billion in a secondary offering, converting shares from the Indian market to increase the company's international equity exposure.

The National Clearing House Association said its check image volume rose 56.1% in the third quarter compared with the second quarter.

First Data Corp. said its creditors tendered more than $1.6 billion of corporate debt under a purchase offer the Denver company made Nov. 7.

Mobile phones could be the next big thing for banking and payments.

Northwest Bancorp Inc. of Warren, Pa., has licensed teller automation and customer relationship management software from John H. Harland Co.

Transaction Systems Architects Inc. has agreed to distribute business bill payment software from iPay Technologies LLC of Elizabethtown, Ky.

Boiling Springs Savings Bank of Rutherford, N.J., is using multifactor authentication technology from Comodo Group Inc.

Two years after beginning a major conversion to Internet-based telephone systems, Bank of America Corp. says it is hitting its stride in converting branches and plans to begin a call-center pilot test by yearend.