Bank technology

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. has increased the dividend on its common stock by 13%, to 4.5 cents a share.

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By introducing a high-yield savings account available only through its new EmigrantDirect.com Web site, Emigrant Bancorp is attempting to compete with the more established Internet-only banks on interest rates.

A year ago a relentless decline in its core business was dragging down earnings at Deluxe Corp., the nation's largest check printer.

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Banks have tried a number of ways to win remittance business, including low prices, but in the last four years money transmitters have actually gained market share.

E-Trade Financial Corp., which wants more customers to use it as their primary bank, is developing an account comparison tool to tout its interest rates.

Two fledgling biometrics vendors are locking horns in a patent dispute that could deal a major blow to the loser.

Comerica Inc. of Detroit, which a year ago looked like a leader in the nascent technology of clearing checks by exchanging digital images, has chosen a different role.

Diebold Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings rose 6% from a year earlier, to $62.8 million.

Bisys Group Inc.'s net income in its fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31, rose 8% from a year earlier, to $21.9 million, or 18 cents a share.

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With its online bill payment and presentment contract expiring, Zions Bancorp. of Salt Lake City is switching from CheckFree Corp., the market leader, to the runner-up, Metavante Corp.

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Nacha, the electronic payments association, has a new chairman: Steve Ellis, a veteran payments executive with Wells Fargo & Co.

CheckFree Corp. has raised its earnings guidance for the current fiscal year, crediting strong demand for its online bill-payment services