Spotlight: Cash From the Comfort of Your Easy Chair

Citicorp, the nation’s second-largest bank, plans to test a system that will turn its customers’ living rooms into automated teller machines. The bank said it will test Redwood City-based VeriFone Inc.’s electronic “smart card” system in a pilot program in New York for customers to download money from their bank accounts onto cash cards at home or in the office. Citibank, owned by Citicorp, is looking for an area to test the system with enough interested customers and stores.