Bank technology

Digital Insight Corp. plans to use a Metavante Corp. funds transfer product as the foundation of a same-day person-to-person payment product that could reach almost every financial company.

Transaction Systems Architects Inc., an Omaha vendor of wire transfer, automated clearing house, and card processing software, has named Henry C. Lyons its chief financial officer and a senior vice president.

Wells Fargo & Co. is integrating its automated clearing house processing system with its account reconciliation system to let business customers track checks that have been converted to ACH transactions.

A Norwegian vendor has teamed up with a bank and a payroll software provider to develop a product, which it hopes to market in the United States, that combines online banking and office management.

Total System Services Inc. has increased its stake in the credit card processor China UnionPay Data Co. Ltd.

Frustrated that phishers have made e-mail effectively useless for reaching customers, banks and technology vendors are hoping to develop a method to verify the authenticity of electronic communications.

The security software vendor 41st Parameter Inc. has hired a new chief executive, Robert Lewis.

Hoping to win a bigger share of the growing health-care processing business, Bank of America Corp. has bought an online health payments processor.

Bank of New York Co. Inc. is selling Rufus, its European transfer agency software business, to Bravura Solutions Ltd., a financial technology company based in Sydney.

Wachovia Corp. is offering retail lockbox clients an automated service for same-day processing of payment exceptions.

Carreker Corp., a vendor fighting for its corporate independence, reported a profit for its fiscal second quarter, which ended July 31, and its chief executive offered a "cautiously optimistic" outlook on new products.

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Open Solutions Inc. of Glastonbury, Conn., has agreed to provide check-image clearing services for Independent Bankers Bank of Marietta, Ga.

To extend its payment services, Mellon Financial Corp. has acquired a company that operates bill-pay sites for billers.

Associated Banc-Corp of Green Bay, Wis., is planning to use antifraud software from Corillian Corp.

Diebold Inc. restructured its management team to boost sales abroad.

In a sign of the growing popularity of contactless payment cards, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has changed its issuing strategy for its Blink contactless products.