The latest upgrade of CU*Answers' core processing system includes a software tool designed to help separate men and women.

Jack Henry & Associates is buying iPay Technologies for $300 million, the Missouri-based data processing and integrated technology company's largest acquisition yet, the company said.

Unitus Community Credit Union in Portland, Ore., has signed up as a user of the personal financial management, Web community and social media tools of Geezeo.

Those banks that have started easing their commercial lending standards have done so in response to increased competition from other banks and nonbank sources, according to a recent Federal Reserve Board survey.