The Resolution Trust Corp. has decided to impose relatively minor penalties on technology outsourcer Fiserv Inc. after the company admitted to ethical lapses over the disposal of assets of a failed Texas thrift. In May, the RTC charged that Milwaukee-based Fiserv and a joint venture partner had improperly sold $30,000 worth of office furnishings from the failed CitySavings and Loan Association. The RTC said Fiserv and its partner in the joint venture, the BancPro Group, Inc., violated the agency's ethics rules when a number of BancPro employees and subcontractors purchased CitySavings' furniture and artwork. RTC rules stipulate that "a contractor engaged by the RTC to manage, lease. value, or establish a sales price for an asset... cannot enter into any subsequent contract with the RTC... to purchase that asset."