Bank technology

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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The point of sale terminal manufacturer Hypercom Corp. has sold the U.K. leasing business that sparked an accounting mess last year and led to the departure of two top executives.

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Instead of investing in image exchange technology themselves, four Montana banks have outsourced their check processing to Fiserv Inc. and sold the vendor much of the equipment in their shared processing center.

Zions Bancorp. announced the launch Wednesday of a biometric verification service for consumers who cash payroll and government checks at its branches.