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DAYTON, Ohio –NCR Corp., the biggest maker of ATMs and self-service financial machines, said it will shrink its workforce here to 100 by late 2011 as it moves its headquarters to the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Ga.

PURCHASE, N.Y. – MasterCard reported a 26% rise in second-quarter profits yesterday, boosted by an increase in pricing and number of transactions, and a decrease in incentives and rebates.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity National Information Services, the former conglomerate since unwound, plans to raise as much as $320 million for its pending acquisition of Metavante Technologies from two old partners Thomas H. Lee and Fidelity National Financial (Title), its one-time affiliate.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. – Fiserv yesterday reported a 40% surge in second quarter profits, to $140 million, to a $265 million, or 25%, reduction in expenses after the sale of its Fiserv Insurance unit.

SAN FRANCISCO – Boosted by the sale of its share of VisaNet do Brazil, Visa Inc. yesterday reported a 73% surge in third quarter earnings, to $729 million.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity National Information Services, the provider of back-office services to credit unions and banks, reported an 18% decline in net income for its second quarter, to $59.6 million.

ATLANTA – Credit bureau Equifax reported a 16% drop in second quarter profits, fueled by a 9% decline in revenues.

BROWN DEER, Wis.– Metavante Technologies said net income for its second quarter soared 41% to $1.9 million, as the company prepares to be taken over by Fidelity National Information Services.

SHOREVIEW, Minn. – Deluxe Corp. said Friday profits fell 15% in the second quarter as revenues continued to slide.

WASHINGTON – Regulators seized seven more banks Friday, including six in Georgia owned by the same company, increasing the number of bank failures to 64 in 2009.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Golden 1 CU said last week it has completed the merger of Steinbeck CU, one of two ailing credit unions being acquired by the $7 billion credit union.

SAN DIEGO – California Coast CU, which doubled in size with last year’s merger of First Future CU, is adding another $130 million with the acquisition of Financial 21 Community CU, pushing it close to $2 billion in assets. The combination of the three San Diego credit unions comes as the southern California real estate crash shows few signs of abating.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The NCUA taketh, and the NCUA giveth back: that's the story of the second quarter financials for credit unions, many of which are reversing millions of dollars in first quarter charges for the corporate credit union bailout which they took at the direction of NCUA, and reporting the gain as operating income.

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Space Coast Credit Union reported a strong second quarter, net income of almost $31 million, as it swallows Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union in the biggest credit union merger ever.

BALTIMORE – Municipal Employees CU paid its members the first half of its anticipated annual cash bonus of $4.2 million. Loan interest rebates and extraordinary dividends were deposited in members' accounts on June 30.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Regulators have stepped up their efforts to clean up the state’s troubled credit union landscape with approval to merge eleven more credit unions, most of them in money-losing positions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said yesterday it approved another 21 mergers last month, ten of them involving credit unions over $400 million and six of them involving $1 billion institutions, continuing a trend of the largest credit unions gobbling the small and troubled ones.

WASHINGTON NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Pay raises were down for credit union CEOs this year, but still around 4%, even as credit unions reported their worst year ever in 2008.

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Space Coast CU reported a strong second quarter, net income of almost $31 million, as it swallows Eastern Financial Florida CU in the biggest credit union merger ever.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – New Hope Community Development FCU, a tiny credit union serving the impoverished west end of the city, was closed by NCUA yesterday.