Founded as a financial computer-services provider in 1988, ACS for the first few years focused on processing bank transactions, but the collapse of the Texas banking industry eliminated many of its customers.

FORBES: The human factor

His big score was Biometrics Imagineering, a firm he started in 1998 that developed document processing machines for bank tellers.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

In an asset swap, JPMorgan could take the retail branches and cede some of its securities processing division to Bank of New York.

FORBES: Ready, Set, Sell