New product announcements from The Clearing House LLC, MasterCard, VISA, and more.

Advanta Corp says it’s offering private label business checking services through The Bancorp Bank. (Contact: Advanta, 215-657-4000; The Bancorp Bank, 215-861-7990)

Bottomline Technologies says it’s received a U.S. patent for its payables automation technology. The patent streamlines compatibility issues between accounting systems and invoice data formats of vendors and payers. (Contact: Bottomline Technologies, 603-501-5219)

CardinalCommerce says it has a deal with MODASolutions, a payment and order processing provider, to offer SECURE-eBill, an authentication service for merchants who want to accept online payments from people without payment cards. (Contact: CardinalCommerce, 440-352-8444)

Catuity Inc. says it signed Nexus Payment Systems, Inc. to a four-year deal to provide Nexus with gift card programs. (Contact: Catuity Inc. 313-567-4348; Nexus Payment Systems Inc. 951-676-3550)

The Clearing House Payments Co.’s Electronic Payments Network unit says TROY Group Inc. is the first company to use EPN’s new ACH Origination product for community banks and credit unions. Separately, The Clearing House says that HSBC Bank USA, N.A. has joined its SVPCO Image Payments Network. (Contact: The Clearing House Co. LLC, 212-613-9896)

Corillian Corp. says that $700 million Oregon Community Credit Union, and $450 million Utah Community Credit Union, are using its online and authentication services. (Contact: Corillian Corp., 503-629-3770)

DCI says that Wichita, Kansas-based RelianzBank, a de novo bank, is using its iCore bank management and core processing system. (Contact: DCI, 678-781-7224)

Diebold Inc. says that Russia’s Bank Petrocommerce bought 250 of Diebold’s Opteva ATMs. (Contact: Diebold Inc., 330-490-6319)

First Data Corp. says it’s formed a merchant acquiring joint venture with Italy’s Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), called BNL POSitivity. (Contact: First Data Corp., 303-967-6367; BNL, 39 06-47027215)

Global Cash Access (GCA) says Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. will continue using GCA’s ATMs at four of Pinnacle’s casinos. (Contact: Global Cash Access, Inc., 702-262-5003)

GreenZap Inc. says it’s raised $2 million in second-round financing. GreenZap is a person-to-person payments system competing with PayPal. (Contact: GreenZap, Inc., 858-812-3050)

Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. says it has a $7 million order from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for point of sale terminals PIN Pads. (Contact: Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd., 972-3-902-9730)

MasterCard International says that it’s teaming with H&R Block, Official Payments Corp., and Metavante unit Link2Gov to let people pay their federal income taxes with MasterCard debit and credit cards this year without paying a fee. Separately, MasterCard and CitiGroup say they’re trying out a PayPass-based contactless payments system in New York City subway stations (Contact: MasterCard International, 914-249-5724)

Online Resources Corp. says it’s using authentication, anti-phishing technology and risk management reporting from RSA Security’s Cyota Consumer Solutions unit. (Contact: Online Resources Corp., 703-653-2248)

Open Solutions Inc. says that $750 million Royal Credit Union, based in Eau Claire, Wis., is using its core processing platform. (Contact: Open Solutions, 860-652-3153)

Pay By Touch says that the Alabama-based Star Markets grocery and pharmacy chain is using its BioPay biometric authentication technology. (Contact: Pay By Touch, 703-467-8332; Star Markets, 256-721-1322)

US Bancorp’s NOVA Information Systems unit says its Electronic Check Service now supports business checks as well as personal checks. (Contact: NOVA, 678-731-5064)

VASCO Data Security International Inc. says that HSBC is using VASCO’s Digipass authentication token in the bank’s Asia Pacific operations. (Contact: VASCO Data Security International, Inc., 32-2-456-9810)

VeriFone Holdings Inc. says it has a new product, PCCharge Partner, that gives users everything they need to allow a personal computer to run any type of electronic payment transaction. (Contact: VeriFone, 508-283-4112)

Vesta Corp. says it’s using Axalto’s SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card in their phones to offer prepaid wireless customers mobile payment capabilities. (Contact: Vesta Corp., 503-790-2500; Axalto, 203-226-9290)

Visa USA says it now has more than 20,000 Visa Contactless acceptance locations in the United States. (Contact: Visa USA, 650-432-8352)