10:04 AM
World Briefs
Commerzbank, Germany, has purchased a TotalStorage Enterprise Storage server from IBM, Armonk, N.Y., as part of a 185-terabyte storage networking infrastructure.
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Bank Vozrozdenie, Industrial and Construction Bank, Bank Baltyisky, and Alfa-Bank, all of Russia, have purchased ATMs from NCR, Dayton, Ohio.
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KKB, Turkey, the nation's only credit bureau, will provide creditors with access to credit scores from Fair, Isaac, San Rafael, Calif.
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United Financial of Japan has standardized on WebFocus, a business intelligence system from Information Builders, New York.
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ING Bank Slaski, Poland, has licensed CentraOne, a business collaboration and e-learning system from Centra, Lexington, Mass.
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Sandnes Sparebank, Norway, has installed Siebel eFinance 7, a CRM product from Siebel Systems, San Mateo, Calif., to consolidate customer information.
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Citibank, United Kingdom, has tapped Global PAYplus, a payment processing system from Fundtech, Jersey City, N.J., as part of a multi-country rollout.
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Transaction Management Services, Ghana, has licensed OpeN/2, a transaction processing system from S2 Systems, London, to provide West Africa's first online debit card. Banesco, Venezuela, has licensed OpeN/2 to manage its high-volume ATM and POS network.
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BMW Financial Services, Switzerland, has provided dealers with loan and lease software to run on handheld devices from Palm, Santa Clara, Calif.