Bank technology

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First Data to Buy Stake In Korean Payments Company

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Three more technology vendors have agreed to incorporate an automated clearing house format developed by The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC for corporate payments into their software, and Union Bank of California is preparing to test it.

The Blue Bell, Pa., technology and services company Unisys Corp. posted a third-quarter loss Tuesday of $54.3 million, or 16 cents a share, and said it plans to eliminate 10% of its global work force.

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Merchants have long used loyalty programs to keep tabs on a household’s purchases, but the San Francisco biometric technology vendor Solidus Networks Inc. says its systems can monitor an individual’s shopping habits more precisely.

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For the second consecutive quarter the Atlanta banking software company S1 Corp. has lowered its revenue guidance.

The micropayment software vendor Peppercoin Inc. says it is not threatened by a recently announced rate structure from PayPal Inc. that seems to take aim at Peppercoin's most important market segment - online merchants.

First Data Corp.'s third-quarter earnings fell 8% from a year earlier, but gains in the Denver payment processor's merchant services and payment services businesses offset a steep drop in its card-issuing services unit.

Acquisitions made over the last 12 months produced most of the third-quarter revenue growth at Metavante Corp., which has already made a strong start on dealmaking this quarter.

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In their efforts to satisfy demand from corporate treasury managers for more information about their accounts, banks are also beefing up their security tools.

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Harris Bank customers can bypass the tedious phone tree they typically encounter when dialing a call center by clicking a link on Harris’ Web site to request a representative call them directly.