PARSIPPANY, N.J. - In the wake of the exit of Santa Barbara Bank and Trust from the refund loan business, tax services company Jackson Hewitt has reached an agreement under which Republic Bank & Trust would increase the amount of funds it provides for financial products to 45 percent in the 2010 tax season, up from 25 percent a year ago. The terms extend through Oct. 31, 2012.

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Intuit has scaled-back the in-product marketing communications features in QuickBooks 2010 after it heard from users that there were simply too many messages hitting them while using the popular low-cost accounting software package. Intuit said it had made a series of changes in response to the complaints in a patch for 2010 issued this week.