Bank technology

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Total System Services Inc. reported solid second-quarter earnings but warned that two anticipated customer losses would hurt revenue in the third and fourth quarters.

Metavante Corp. of Milwaukee has created a division to offer corporate cash management products and raided the competition for an executive to run it.

Leader Bank NA in Arlington, Mass., is using instant messaging software to make it easier for customers to get in touch with branch personnel.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. has created an outsourcing business in Brazil, in a move that showcases the company’s strategy of linking the processing of payment card transactions and paper checks.

Metavante Corp. said that cross-selling helped drive up sales in the second quarter.

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First Horizon National Corp. is preparing to use a deposit service developed for branchless banks by NetBank Inc. to offer traditional banking products and services to more customers outside its brick-and-mortar coverage area.

The popularity of social networking Web sites and the rich trove of personal information available on them is attracting banks that hope to link that data to their marketing efforts.

First Data Corp., which is about to lose some utilities-billing business with its spinoff of Western Union Financial Services Inc., has struck a deal that could compensate for that loss.

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CashEdge Inc. and Yodlee Inc. both say a legal ruling has given them the advantage in their patent-infringement battle.

To shift more customer service communications to the Internet, Wachovia Corp. is upgrading its online bank message system to give retail customers features usually reserved for corporate customers.

Bankers are becoming more comfortable using advanced programming technology, but they are realizing that they must come up with standardized ways of expressing critical banking terms.

Solidus Networks Inc.’s first bank deal is not for the payment technology the San Francisco biometrics vendor has been marketing for years, but for an unrelated product it acquired about six months ago.

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