She said the bank's branches reported normal customer transactions on Wednesday.

It is essentially a layer of software to which companies typically write Web-based applications for handling customer transactions or delivering information to employees.

By May 2009, the company employed about 300 people with nearly 800,000 customer transactions.

Commissions are being dropped entirely on some customer transactions.

Amazon is known to retain extensive data on customer transactions.

The value menu was introduced nationally in 1989 and that year the number of customer transactions increased 35 percent.

Over 89% of customer transactions had been successfully executed through alternative delivery channels during fiscal year 2010.

While much of their data relates to credit requests and fraud, an increasing amount of information details customer transactions.

Currently, only 60 percent of customer transactions occur in branches, he said.

Companies increasingly are managing some portion of their employee communications and customer transactions over the Internet.