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Here you can find all news stories from the weekly newsletter, Digital Transactions News, and all articles from Digital Transactions magazine (published monthly), that have appeared since the inception of both publications.
News Archive
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September 8, 2010
• Star Launches Mobile Account Transfers with Obopay
• In a First, eBay Permits Gateways Besides PayPal
September 7, 2010
• Growth in Closed-Loop Prepaid Loads Perks up
• Eye on Mobile: Android Surges, Tyfone Closes on Financing
September 2, 2010
• VeriFone’s Way Systems Deal Bolsters Its Strategy
• Credit Unions Outpace Banks in Imaging ATMs
• Will New Regs Cool off Open Loop’s Hot Growth?
September 1, 2010
• Gift Cards, Having Gone Virtual, Now Are Going Mobile
September 2010
• Digital Transactions September 2010
August 31, 2010
• Broadband, Smart Phones Drive Torrid Growth for Content
• BankServ Snaps up NetDeposit, Bulks Up in Remote Capture
August 26, 2010
• With CertiFlash, Star Is First EFT Network to Offer Contactless
August 25, 2010
• Visa Guidance Targets Slipshod Payment Card Software Practices
• Deluged with Requests, Fiserv Rolls out a Mobile Capture Service
August 24, 2010
• Touting Cost Savings, NACHA Launches Pilot for Deposited Checks
August 23, 2010
• BofA Gives NFC on Memory Cards a Boost with Big Apple Pilot
• Blackhawk Makes a Big Jump into Reloadable Prepaid Cards
August 20, 2010
• Latest ACH Stats Reflect Consumer Shift to Electronic Bill Pay
August 19, 2010
• Elavon’s New Boss Aims to Strengthen Processor’s Game Plan
• Mobile Deposit Capture Takes Strides with PayPal And a Mitek Patent
August 17, 2010
• Two Years in Coming, an IRS Reporting Rule Takes Effect
• A Survey Reveals a Rising Volume of Disputed ACH Debits
August 16, 2010
• Eye on M-Commerce: Google Talks to eBay; Apple Hires NFC Expert
August 12, 2010
• PCI Council Tweaks Rules to Clarify Issues Like Scope of Assessment
• Instant Debit Card Issuance On the Rise, But Have Rewards Peaked?
August 11, 2010
• A New U.S. Treasury Rule Would Add Millions to Prepaid Ranks
August 10, 2010
• First Data’s Alliance with BofA Helps Fuel Surge in Transactions
August 9, 2010
• A Third Bank Settles with LML in Broad-Based ACH Patent Cases
• NACHA Mulls Recurring TEL Debits, Other E-Check Changes
August 6, 2010
• Little-Noted, Prepaid Rules Would Cover Non-Banks As Well As Banks
August 5, 2010
• Visa Hopes RightCliq Adds the Right Value for Online Payments
• Thanks to Tempo, Discover Enters Decoupled Debit
• Study: About One-Fifth of Breached Entities Were PCI-Compliant
August 3, 2010
• Merchant Resistance Could Hobble the Carrier-Led NFC Venture
• Portfolio Defections Hurt Quarterly Debit Results for MasterCard
August 2010
• Digital Transactions August 2010
July 30, 2010
• Merchants Get More Aggressive About Gift Card Reloads
July 29, 2010
• Visa Hopes It Can Come to Terms with the Justice Department
July 28, 2010
• Acculynk Scores Again, This Time with Its MasterCard Pact
• The Emerging Case for a Rules Change to Force Same-Day ACH
July 27, 2010
• Some NFC Consensus Emerges, Thanks to Fed Mediation
July 26, 2010
• The Dodd-Frank Interchange Haircut Could Exceed $10 Billion
July 23, 2010
• Regulation, Economy Weigh on Acquiring Executives’ Minds
July 22, 2010
• Square’s Founder Says the Main Act Is About To Begin
• PayPal Sees Transaction Growth Level off in the Latest Quarter
July 21, 2010
• As the Ink Dries on Dodd-Frank, Merchants Gird for Interchange Battle
July 20, 2010
• A Social Media Paradox: Sites Are Popular, But Users Aren’t Happy
July 19, 2010
• Soon To Be Law, Pricing Regs Hit BofA, Spare Green Dot, NetSpend
July 15, 2010
• A ‘Bill Me Later’ for Bill Pay Launches with a $4.5 Million Warchest
• A Social Media, P2P, And Micropayments Mashup Emerges from First Data
July 14, 2010
• Pulse Makes Web-Based PIN Debit a Commercial Service
• NRF And Visa, Often at Odds, Come Together on Storage Rules
July 13, 2010
• Government Benefits Will Help Drive Open-Loop Prepaid Growth
• Same Day ACH Will Be a Boon for Web And Mobile--But How Soon?
July 9, 2010
• Online Game, Social Network Sites Confront Unique Fraud Challenges
July 8, 2010
• Consumers See Little Benefit in Interchange Regs, Research Shows
• High-Profile Players Sign on to Promote Mobile-Merchant Technology
• A Banker’s Nightmare: Social Networks Beget a Slew of PayPals
July 6, 2010
• PayPal, Google Use Mobile to Penetrate the Physical Point of Sale
• Chase Weighs in With Its Remote Capture App for the iPhone
July 2, 2010
• Risky Software Still in Place as a Visa Deadline Passes
July 2010
• Digital Transactions July 2010
July 1, 2010
• The Acquiring Industry Stays on Its Top-Heavy Course
• PayPal Prepares for a Rich Mobile-Commerce Harvest
• E3 Terminals Take Root in Heartland’s Merchant Portfolio
June 29, 2010
• Consumer Payments Are Just the Start for an Ambitious FaceCash
• PayPal Rolls out in-App Card Payments, Delays New-Market Thrust
June 25, 2010
• Pending Legislation Would Extend CARD Act Deadline for Prepaid
June 24, 2010
• A Dedicated Code for Mobile ACH Is Still on the Table
June 23, 2010
• ISOs’ Volume Shortfalls Trigger First Data Demands for Fees
June 22, 2010
• Council Grants an Extra Year to Implement New PCI Versions
• Token, Encryption Combo Seen As a Remedy for PCI Headaches
June 21, 2010
• Issuers Not Likely to See Much Gain from Durbin’s Concessions
June 17, 2010
• AmEx’s Premium Cost Could Be Muted for Payments Pro Merchants
• Behind Wal-Mart’s Stake in Its Prepaid Card Partner, Green Dot
June 16, 2010
• Fraud And Overdraft Regs Threaten Debit Card Profitability
• Durbin Rips Card Networks for Lack of Interchange Negotiation
June 15, 2010
• Defending His Amendment, Sen. Durbin Fires Back at Small Banks
• Leveraging Twitter, Twitpay Narrows Focus to Donations, Gaming
June 10, 2010
• Weak Recovery Puts a Damper on Consumer Spending Growth
• Google’s Android Closes in on the iPhone in Mobile Banking
June 9, 2010
• Small Institutions to Durbin Amendment: Thanks But No Thanks
• Seeking ‘Stickiness,’ MasterCard Rolls out Online Bill Pay for Prepaid
June 8, 2010
• The Durbin Amendment Ignites a Lobbying Frenzy on Capitol Hill
June 7, 2010
• A $300 Million iPay Deal Is a ‘Strong Fit’ for Processor Jack Henry
June 4, 2010
• Study Quantifies the Heavy Damage of Card Data Breaches
June 3, 2010
• More Petitions Let C-Stores Ratchet up the Heat on Interchange
• Bullish on the iPad, Square Says It Will Be a POS Game Changer
June 2, 2010
• Potential Effects of Durbin Amendment Roil the Debit Card Industry
• New Developer Deals Could Spur Mobile Growth for PayPal
June 1, 2010
• Online Bill-Pay Usage Evolves to Take on Mainstream Contours
June 2010
• Digital Transactions June 2010
May 28, 2010
• Visa Eases up on Triple DES Deadline in Face of ‘Migration Challenges’
May 27, 2010
• VeriFone Results Perk up As Services Revenues Start to Kick in
May 26, 2010
• With New Cash in Hand, Payvment Plots Post-Facebook Expansion
May 25, 2010
• MasterCard Seeks to Harness Innovation Through Open APIs
• Victors in Senate Interchange Skirmish Take Battle to the House
May 24, 2010
• Software House Behind Mobile Capture Gets into the Black
May 21, 2010
• A Bill to Regulate Online Gambling Gets an Airing in Washington
• Software Platforms Will Rule the Future of Payments, Expert Argues
May 19, 2010
• Heavyweight Entrants Help Trigger a Merger in Card-Acceptance Apps
• Heartland, MasterCard Forge a $41 Million Data-Breach Settlement
May 18, 2010
• An iPhone Accessory Heats up the Push for NFC on Memory Cards
May 17, 2010
• Questions Arise in the Wake of Durbin’s Winning Amendment
May 14, 2010
• Interchange Rules Close in as Senate Okays Debit Card Amendment
May 13, 2010
• Visa’s Big PIN-Debit Rate Hike Further Closes Gap with Signature Debit
May 12, 2010
• ProPay Takes Early Lead in Extending Data Protection to the ACH
• PCI Council Consolidates PIN-Entry Standards into One Set of Rules
May 11, 2010
• Experts Challenge Payments Execs to Get Ready for Social Media
• PINless Debit, Card Acceptance for Consumers from Obopay
May 7, 2010
• Volume Perks up for Heartland, While Breach Costs Exceed $100 Million
• Even Vendors See a Far-off Horizon for End-to-End Encryption
May 6, 2010
• The Senate Attaches Interchange Regs to Financial-Reform Bill
May 4, 2010
• Eye on Mobile: An Apple-ViVOtech Rumor; Google Invests in a Gateway
• MasterCard Spots Signs of a Turnaround in Cardholder Spending
• MasterCard Aims for Faster Authorizations, More Message Data
May 2010
• Digital Transactions May 2010
April 30, 2010
• ‘Double Dippers’ Put a Drag on Banks’ Bill-Pay Efforts
April 29, 2010
• Both Credit And Debit Rise for Visa, Along with Acquirer Fees
April 28, 2010
• As Its PayPal Program Unfolds, Star Zeroes in on Online PIN Debit
• Congress Breaks Its Silence on Interchange with a New Hearing
April 27, 2010
• NACHA Taps The Clearing House to Help Commercialize EBIDS
• Square Founders Get Rock Star Welcome But Give Few Details
April 22, 2010
• Ebay Chief Touts PayPal Innovation As Processor Logs Strong Results
• Mobile Capture’s Profile Rises As Smart Phone Adoption Climbs
• Apriva Challenges USA Technologies in Cashless-Vending Market
April 21, 2010
• Just Days After Its Debut, Square Changes Its Processing Fees
• Visa Deepens E-Commerce Roots with $2 Billion CyberSource Deal
April 19, 2010
• Canada Will Enforce Its Payments Code with Regs, If Necessary
April 16, 2010
• Mercury Payment Sells Stake As M&A Reps Prowl the ETA Show
April 15, 2010
• States Join the Interchange Debate While IRS Reporting Rules Loom
• A Bundled Approach to PCI Compliance for Small Merchants
• ViVOtech Says Its Contactless PIN Pad Will Pave the Way for Mobile
April 12, 2010
• MasterCard Gets a New Boss, Signs E-Commerce Pact
• New MasterCard ATM Rates Will Crimp Income for Banks And ISOs
April 8, 2010
• As 2-D Barcodes Gain Steam for M-Payments, a Novel Twist Emerges
• Eye on E-Commerce: Acculynk Courts ISOs; eBillme’s Walk-in Survey
• ISOs Lukewarm About Sponsor Banks, Other Vendors, Survey Finds
April 7, 2010
• The ACH Bucks a Soft Economy As Transaction Volumes Rise
April 6, 2010
• A Dutch Gateway Touts Pricing, Overseas Reach in U.S. Launch
April 5, 2010
• In Bypassing iPhone for iPad, Square Shows Its Hand—Or Some of It
April 1, 2010
• TNS Enters a Crowded Market for Card Acceptance on Handsets
April 2010
• Digital Transactions April 2010
April 1, 2010
• After a Dip in ’09, Prepaid Card Usage Is Back on the Rise, Expert Says
• Gonzalez Sentence Is No Deterrent to Hackers, Security Expert Warns
March 31, 2010
• DataTreasury’s Trial Victory Doesn’t Bring Legal Marathon to an End
March 30, 2010
• San Diego Nears End of Conversion to Contactless Monthly Transit Cards
March 29, 2010
• A New Fiserv Widget Aims at Boosting Online Bill Pay Usage
March 25, 2010
• Fed Surprises Prepaid Industry with a Tight Deadline for Compliance
• Heartland Preps for Its Big End-to-End Encryption Rollout
March 24, 2010
• All-Digital Checks Get a Boost from an ‘Outsider’ Technology Startup
March 23, 2010
• Bill-to-Carrier Rivalry Heats up with Danal’s Verizon Breakthrough
• Eye on Mobile: Wells Rolls out Alerts; Arkansas First in M-Payments
March 22, 2010
• FrontStream's Fast Transact Deal Shows Some M&A Thaw
March 18, 2010
• Fifth Third Processing Jumps on the End-to-End Encryption Bandwagon
• On the Rise, Friendly Fraud Is Getting Online Merchants’ Attention
March 17, 2010
• Discover's Hybrid Growth Strategy Boosts Network Volumes
• E-Commerce Merchants Take on More Risk in Search of More Sales
March 16, 2010
• First Data: Embrace of SD Cards Won’t Weaken Sticker Commitment
• The NRF Wants Dodd To Carry the Interchange-Regulation Torch
March 11, 2010
• BofA’s Move on Debit Card Overdrafts Could Herald Big Revenue Drain
• Capellas Leaves First Data As Hints of Recovery Appear on the Horizon
March 10, 2010
• In Prepaid, Issuers And Networks Will See Fastest Revenue Growth
March 9, 2010
• Phishers Are Zeroing in on Executives with Treasury Responsibility
• Big Merchants Pay $225,000 on Average for PCI Audits, Study Says
March 8, 2010
• Regulators Seek Stronger Authority over Card Payments in Canada
March 2010
• Digital Transactions March 2010
March 4, 2010
• Small Banks No Longer Immune to Payments Fraud, Stats Show
• Apple Store Deal Gives High Profile to VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile
• Mitek-NetDeposit Deal Lends More Impetus to Mobile Capture
March 2, 2010
• Remote Mobile Capture Is Ready for Prime Time, Researcher Argues
• Fast-Growing Green Dot Plans To Do an IPO And Buy a Bank
March 1, 2010
• TSYS Changes Course, Forms Joint Venture with First National of Omaha
February 25, 2010
• Reload Capability Eludes Consumers Despite Prepaid’s Popularity
• UATP Books a Hotel As Its Airline-Card Network Diversifies
February 24, 2010
• Prepaid Card Mall Pioneer Blackhawk Moves into Online, B2B
February 23, 2010
• NACHA Looks for a Partner to Help Move EBIDS out of Pilot Mode
• Opportunity Comes With Risk for Public-Sector Prepaid Cards
• U.S. Issuers Begin to Fret About Mag-Stripe Problems Overseas
February 18, 2010
• A Rebound for Credit Cards Online Will Slow Gains for Alternatives
• PayPal’s Facebook Deal Could Open Big Transaction Potential
• Heartland Restructures Its Sales Force to Jumpstart Productivity
February 17, 2010
• Consumers Show Surprising Affinity for Mobile Remote Capture
• Underbanked Remain Closely Wedded to Cash, Study Shows
February 15, 2010
• TSYS Aims to Tap Growing Debit Trend with Its New Hybrid Card
February 11, 2010
• Could Visa’s New No-Signature Rule Hurt Contactless Payments?
February 10, 2010
• As ID Fraud Ensnares More Victims, More Fraudsters Get Caught
• A French Processor Sets Its Sights on U.S. Micropayments
February 9, 2010
• Ex-MasterCard Execs Get Processor Set for U.S. Web Gambling
• Flat-Fee Pricing on PIN Debit Hurts Acquirer Margins, Expert Says
February 8, 2010
• As Competition Heats up, USA Technologies Settles With Dissidents
February 4, 2010
• Same-Store Card Sales Continue to Plunge for Small Businesses
• Encryption, PIN Security, EMV Top Busy Agenda for PCI Council in 2010
• Debit Growth Is Still the Story As Visa And MasterCard File Results
February 3, 2010
• Hackers Target Hotels for Card Data As Malware Gets More Insidious
February 2, 2010
• Fiserv Sees An Opportunity in Filters for the ACH’s New IAT Code
February 2010
• Digital Transactions February 2010
February 1, 2010
• VeriFone Goes Outside Usual Channels to Sell Its New iPhone Product
January 29, 2010
• M&A Optimism Rises Even As NAB Stays Mum About Possible Sale
January 28, 2010
• How XipWire Plans to Build Usage for Its Text-Based Payments System
• On the Back Burner in Congress, Interchange Heats up in California
January 27, 2010
• UBC Backs ECR Giveaway with Merchant Leads And Appointments
• Study: Of All Breaches, Those Caused by Hacking Are the Costliest
January 25, 2010
• How Biller-Direct Payments Are Making Slow But Steady Gains
January 21, 2010
• New Group Seeks Safe Debit Payments Online And for Mobile
• Payment Volume, Platform Response Swell for an Upbeat PayPal
January 20, 2010
• As Best Buy Tries Bill-Pay Kiosks, TIO Hopes for Big Expansion
• Apriva Launches a Pair of Merchant Apps for Smart Phones
January 19, 2010
• Recession Helps Fuel Merchant Interest in Online PIN Debit
January 18, 2010
• Haiti Earthquake Puts Mobile Payments in the Spotlight
January 15, 2010
• Amazon’s PayPhrase Cuts Cart Abandonment for eFashionSolutions
January 14, 2010
• MasterCard’s SunTrust Coup Includes Credit As Well As Debit Cards
January 13, 2010
• Card Industry Has a Compelling Case for Data Encryption, Report Says
• Later This Year for Rules Clearing the Way for All-Digital Checks
January 12, 2010
• Star Ushers in New Rates, with Interchange Spiffs for Some Issuers
January 11, 2010
• Best Buy Cuts off Visa Contactless with Little Risk to Sales
January 8, 2010
• Heartland Settles with Visa, Agrees to Pay Nearly $60 Million for Losses
January 7, 2010
• Eye on Processing: Glitches Strike in U.S., Germany, And Australia
• Could All-Digital Checks Be the Next App for Your Smart Phone?
January 6, 2010
• LML Scores First ACH Patent Settlement, Says More Could Follow
January 5, 2010
• Consumers Favor Debit Cards, But Prepaid Cards Lag Far Behind
• Discover Continues Its Zip Trial But Stays Mum About Any Rollout
January 2010
• Digital Transactions January 2010
December 29, 2009
• Results Show a More Robust Holiday Shopping Season Than Expected
• Seeing Opportunity, Moneta Will Add Credit Offers to Its Online Wallet
December 28, 2009
• VeriFone Battles Heartland Publicly While the Two Talk in Private
December 23, 2009
• Six Months Later, MasterCard Softens a Controversial PCI Rule
December 22, 2009
• Settlements Still Leave Many Post-Breach Legal Woes for Heartland
December 18, 2009
• Hypercom And Ex-Boss of TNS Lay Plans to Spark Growth for HBNet
December 17, 2009
• Accel/Exchange Plans a Big Acquiring Push for Online PIN Debit
• Will Consumers’ Shift Away from Credit Cards Outlast the Recession?
December 15, 2009
• VeriFone Sees Promise in Mobile Apps And Taxi Transactions
• After a Difficult Year, Lawlor Exits As CEO at Online Resources
December 14, 2009
• Same-Day ACH Is ‘On Track,’ Says Fed, But Response Is Mixed
December 11, 2009
• Eye on Prepaid: Facebook, Western Union, And Green Dot
December 10, 2009
• Upbeat News from First Data on Average Tickets, Same-Store Sales
December 9, 2009
• As Online Bill Pay Surges, WEB Closes Gap with E-Check Leader ARC
December 8, 2009
• VeriFone Brings a Terminal Maker’s Savvy to Mobile Payments
• Early Results Are Inconclusive for NACHA’s New IAT Code
December 7, 2009
• C-Stores Prepare New Anti-Interchange Petition Drive
December 3, 2009
• Secure Vault Payments Wins High Adoption at University of Georgia
• Square Gets Points for Cleverness, But Leaves Questions Unanswered
December 2, 2009
• Peak Shopping Days Give Cause for Cautious Optimism on Payments
December 1, 2009
• The Latest Forecast Is Especially Sunny for Prepaid Cards
December 2009
• Digital Transactions December 2009
November 30, 2009
• As a Mobile Shopping App Grows, It Looks to Add PayPal Payment
• With Payments a Big Part of Health-Care Costs, Automation Efforts Arise
November 27, 2009
• Congress Mulls Alternatives to Unlawful Internet Gambling Ban
November 25, 2009
• A Proxy Fight Breaks Out at USA Technologies
• How the Rise of Smart Phones Could Unleash a Wave of Fraud
November 24, 2009
• As More Banks Fight ID Fraud, Many Still Lag in Alerts, Report Says
November 23, 2009
• Early Read on the Holidays: Tickets Drop As Transactions Climb
• After the GAO Report, Outlook for Interchange Regulation Is Cloudy
November 19, 2009
• Despite the Recession, Online Fraud Takes a Dip in 2009
• Reducing Interchange Would ‘Pose Challenges,’ the GAO Says
• Merchant Attrition Is Top Challenge As Acquirers Look Ahead to 2010
November 18, 2009
• AmEx To Buy Revolution Money in an Alternative-Payment Play
November 17, 2009
• How ISOs Are Tackling the Knotty Issue of Level 4 PCI Compliance
November 16, 2009
• First Data Works with Accertify to Democratize Fraud Screening
November 13, 2009
• Visa Warns of Suspect Web Marketers, Requires More ISO Disclosure
November 12, 2009
• NCR’s Pilot for Movie-Download Kiosks Opens New Transaction Market
November 11, 2009
• RBS WorldPay Indictment Outlines Sophisticated Hacker Coordination
• With Four Suits Pending, the VeriFone-Heartland Feud Escalates
November 10, 2009
• A Battle for Deposits Helps Fuel Bank Interest in P2P Payments
November 9, 2009
• Payvment Uses a PayPal API to Launch a Next-Gen Shopping Cart
November 6, 2009
• How Banks Are Looking to Become Serious Players in P2P Payments
November 4, 2009
• Despite a Fast Start in Mobile Banking, BofA’s Job Isn’t Done
November 3, 2009
• Eye on Earnings: Heartland vs. VeriFone; MasterCard Is Cautious
• PayPal Unveils Platform X, And with It an Array of APIs And New Pricing
November 2, 2009
• Cynergy Data Starts Life Anew After a Trip to Bankruptcy Court
• Accel/Exchange Goes Live With Online PIN Debit
November 2009
• Digital Transactions November 2009
October 30, 2009
• Seeking to Boost Transactions, Star Debuts Prepaid Reloads
October 29, 2009
• Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom: Inside’s Strategy for NFC Workarounds
October 28, 2009
• Analysts: Processors Must Seek Growth in Non-Credit Card Markets
October 27, 2009
• Card Problems Cost U.S. Issuers Hundreds of Millions Overseas
• Ingenico Pitches a PDA for Computing And Card Acceptance
• Visa Readies a Canadian Debit Debut As Volumes Show Signs of Life
October 23, 2009
• MasterCard Targets Small And Mid-Size Businesses for Utility Payments
October 22, 2009
• PayPal Steams Ahead, While Recession Takes a Toll on Bill Me Later
• Modern Bank Robbers Could Shutter As Many As 10 Financial Institutions
October 20, 2009
• An Inside Look at the Secret Service’s Battle to Hobble the Hackers
• ‘A Major Pivot’ for Revolution Money As It Shifts Its Focus to Issuers
October 19, 2009
• Tempo Boosts Decoupled Debit With New Technology, New Issuer
October 16, 2009
• Amazon’s Mobile-Payments Boss Expects Fast Traction for Service
October 15, 2009
• A Pair of Mobile Merchant Apps Debut with Tech Twists
• Report: Prepaid Issuers Must Upgrade Systems to Pass Stiff Tests
October 14, 2009
• A Startup Does Medical Payments on an Online Bill-Pay Model
October 13, 2009
• Launch of Mobile Services Could Reignite Growth for Remote Capture
October 12, 2009
• New Products Key to Revving up Growth in Bill-Pay Adoption
October 8, 2009
• House Interchange Bill Brings Out the Venom on Both Sides
• PayPal’s Push into E-Commerce Spurs New Funding Options
October 7, 2009
• Encryption, Tokenization Loom Large As PCI Council Mulls Changes
• Eye on Opportunities in Expedited Bill Pay And Mobile Banking
October 6, 2009
• Glitches with Online Transactions, While Fewer, Still Pose Issues
October 5, 2009
• Amazon Takes Payments Mobile, But Will Merchants Follow?
October 2009
• Digital Transactions October 2009
October 1, 2009
• Fraud, Security Raise Cost Concerns for ATM Managers, Report Says
September 30, 2009
• AmEx Cuts Gift Card Fees And Expands Simon Mall Card Program
• A Special Delivery on the Hill Makes Interchange a Grassroots Issue
September 29, 2009
• An eBay for Card Processing Seeks to Cut Costs for Merchants
• A New Payments Security Group Plans a Mass Hack Simulation
• MasterCard Cries Foul As 7-Eleven Readies Interchange Petitions
September 24, 2009
• Report: Open-Loop Prepaid Load Volume Will Top Closed-Loop by 2012
• Why Billing Revolution Is Betting on Credit Cards for Mobile Payments
September 23, 2009
• Tyfone Sees Its New Patent Advancing NFC on Memory Cards
• Banks Start To Lose Their Appetite for Juicy Overdraft Fees
September 22, 2009
• Industry Giants First Data And RSA Give Tokenization a Boost
September 21, 2009
• NACHA Proposes to Use WEB for Mobile Payments, for Now
September 17, 2009
• Processing Fees Are Lower, But Big And New Clients Benefit Most
• Merchants Urge That U.S. Follow Overseas Example on Interchange
September 16, 2009
• PCI, Remote Capture Get a Wary Eye Among Some Health-Care Officials
September 15, 2009
• A Google Checkout Glitch Raises Doubts About Alternative Payments
September 14, 2009
• Aldi Grows While Bucking Grocers’ Trend Toward Card Acceptance
September 13, 2009
• Don’t Hire a QSA by Seeking the Lowest Bid, Warns Heartland’s Carr
September 10, 2009
• Rising Costs And a PCI Upgrade Drive Gas Sellers to Reconsider PIN Debit
• A Pitch to Newspapers Highlights Google’s Plan for Micropayments
• PCI Report Poses a Quandary: Where Did 1 Million Merchants Go?
September 9, 2009
• Zenius Hopes to Break NFC Logjam By Focusing on Non-Bank Players
• Wells Brings Remittances to the Internet for ‘Tech-Savvy’ Users
September 8, 2009
• Success of Check 21 Sends Substitute Checks in Free Fall, Data Show
September 3, 2009
• With 1.4 Million Employees, Wal-Mart Puts Payroll Cards on the Map
• With Pulse Deal, Interac Expands Its Cross-Border Utility
September 2, 2009
• Cynergy Is an Example of Economic Stresses on ISOs, Experts Say
• Debt, Accounting Issues, Recession Led Cynergy Data to Bankruptcy
September 2009
• Digital Transactions September 2009
September 1, 2009
• Citing Debt Load, Cynergy Data Declares Bankruptcy And Seeks Sale
August 31, 2009
• Visa Follows MasterCard in Prepaying Its ‘Wal-Mart’ Obligations
August 27, 2009
• Nokia’s Mobile-Payments Gambit Could Give a Boost to Obopay
• Moneta’s Bank-Centric Strategy Gives It a Lift with Online Retailers
August 26, 2009
• As Reloadable Cards Increase, Concerns Grow About Fees, Protection
August 25, 2009
• The PCI Council Offers Guidelines to Fight Skimming Scourge
• New Intuit Payment Service Could Vie for Consumer Transactions
• With Walk-in Bill Pay, Wal-Mart Adds More Payments Muscle
August 21, 2009
• Latest Stats Show WEB Poised to Displace ARC as E-Check Leader
August 20, 2009
• Report: Consolidation, Security, Debit Are Top Challenges for Acquirers
• An All-Handset Payments App Edges PayPal Closer to the Point of Sale
August 19, 2009
• Despite Gonzalez Indictment, No Easy Answers for Merchants
August 18, 2009
• It’s Official: At 130 Million Cards, Heartland Was Biggest Breach Ever
August 17, 2009
• With Goldleaf, Jack Henry Beefs up Its Remote-Capture Business
August 14, 2009
• Network Rivalry Sparks 10-Year Quadrupling of PIN-Debit Pricing
August 12, 2009
• How the Recession Could Push up Fees for Expedited Bill Payments
August 11, 2009
• Big Merchants Push RBS WorldPay into End-to-End Encryption
• Single-Branch USAA Looks to iPhone App to Capture More Deposits
August 10, 2009
• Survey: PCI Awareness Is up Among Small Fry, But So Is PCI Confusion
• Kemesa Looks to Banks to Help Sell Its New Online Security Tool
August 7, 2009
• Seeking Easier Prey, Fraudsters Attack Call Centers to Loot Accounts
August 6, 2009
• Zong’s Growth Heats up Rivalry in Mobile Payments for Downloads
August 5, 2009
• For the First Time, Banks Edge Billers in Race for Bill-Pay Traffic
August 4, 2009
• As PayPal Returns to Normal, Outage Leaves Questions in Its Wake
• Heartland Hit by Drop in Same-Store Sales, But Encryption Moves Ahead
August 2009
• Digital Transactions August 2009
August 3, 2009
• Issuer Cutbacks Result in 104 Million Fewer U.S. Credit Cards
July 30, 2009
• Pain on Main Street: A First-Ever Drop in Card-Based Same-Store Sales
July 29, 2009
• A Mitek-Fiserv Deal Lifts Prospects for Mobile Deposit Capture
• Wireless Carriers Are Poised to Seize Mobile P2P, Report Says
July 28, 2009
• A Year Later, 500,000 Takers for Social Security Card Surprises Experts
• A Startup Builds on Cap One’s Decoupled Debit Program to Run Rewards
July 27, 2009
• Home Depot Opens the Door to Big-Box Contactless Payments
July 24, 2009
• An ISO Shows How Smart Phones Are Taking Root in Acquiring
July 23, 2009
• Lower Spending on Each Transaction Drops Dollar Volume for AmEx
• Microsoft Is Among the First to Try out PayPal’s New Payments API
July 22, 2009
• Going After Right Merchants for Remote Capture Pays off for ISOs
July 21, 2009
• Eye on Acquiring: Airlines Seek Ways to Chop Acceptance Costs
July 20, 2009
• Fifth Third Is the Latest Bank To Use Western Union for Money Transfer
July 17, 2009
• PCI Council Releases Guidelines for Wireless Network Security
July 16, 2009
• Interac Connects With Contactless Debit Payments
July 15, 2009
• Eye on ISOs: Wooing Merchants Harder, Plus an ECR Giveaway
July 14, 2009
• Eye on M-Commerce: Apple's App Store Traffic Hits 1.5 Billion Downloads
• Online Bill Pay Gains 1.3 Million Households in ‘Generational Change’
July 13, 2009
• Security Experts Start to Look at Data Encryption for Smart Phones
July 10, 2009
• An Information Gap Sparks a Dust-Up over Remote Key Injection
July 9, 2009
• How Verient Combines Security And Customization in Cards
July 8, 2009
• PayPal Denies Adaptive Payments API Is a Ploy to ‘Crush’ Amazon FPS
July 7, 2009
• A 7-Eleven Anti-Interchange Petition ‘Touches a Nerve’
• MPX, Payments Central Merge in Latest ACH Consolidation Move
July 6, 2009
• Canadian Legislative Report Echoes U.S. Card-Pricing Proposals
July 2, 2009
• NYCE Looks to 2010 for SafeDebit Rollout, Pilot Later This Year
• MasterCard Puts the 13-Year-Old Wal-Mart Case in the Rear-View Mirror
July 2009
• Digital Transactions July 2009
June 30, 2009
• Travel Agents Prepare to Fight United on New Card-Acceptance Policy
• Yankee Group: NFC Transactions Will Soar into the Millions Next Year
June 29, 2009
• Price Tag for End-to-End Encryption: $4.8 Billion, Mercator Says
• Acquiring Deal with BofA Lets First Data Renew Its Alliance Model
June 25, 2009
• Bling Nation’s Community Payment Platform Goes Live in Colorado
June 24, 2009
• One to Many: Visa Gets a Single Connection to Multiple Carriers
• AllTrust Looks to Newly Minted Patent for Remote Capture Growth
June 23, 2009
• Beyond Stickers: Contactless ‘Skins’ for Payments with Handsets
• CashEdge Unveils a P2P Service To Be Controlled by Banks
June 22, 2009
• With a New PIN Pad, First Data Promotes Contactless to Merchants
June 18, 2009
• Discover’s Transaction Volumes Hold Up in a Turbulent Quarter
June 17, 2009
• Consolidators To Take Greater Share of Slower-Growing Bill-Pay Market
• MasterCard Launches Mobile MoneySend for U.S. P2P Transactions
June 16, 2009
• The Banking System Scrambles Toward IAT’s September Launch
• Boku Debuts to Exploit Markets in Social Networks And Games
June 15, 2009
• Carrier-Based Mobile P2P Gets Under Way in Canada
June 12, 2009
• Two More Congressional Bills Aim at Interchange Regulation
June 10, 2009
• Security Issues Weigh Most Heavily with Acquirers, Research Says
• Rising Fees Could Be Culprit As Fewer Doctors Accept Credit Cards
June 9, 2009
• A Designed-for-ISOs Remote Capture Product Begins to Win Business
• Merchant Groups Ask for Broad Changes in Letter to PCI’s Overseer
June 8, 2009
• Dead in ’08, Back in ’09: Congress Reintroduces an Interchange Bill
June 4, 2009
• Eye on Security: ‘Unique’ ATM Malware; Theft of Sony Card Data
• Amid Recession, PIN Debit Growth Far Outpaces Signature
June 3, 2009
• Latest Pilot Will Put Online PIN Debit to the Test for Credit Unions
June 2009
• Digital Transactions June 2009
June 2, 2009
• Pressure for Mobile Banking Spurs Faster Deployment Technology
• Older Operating System Lingers, Holds Back ATM Services, Study Says
• Merchant And ISO Austerity Leads to Tough Quarter at VeriFone
May 29, 2009
• New Research Shows Optimism About Mobile Banking And Payments
May 28, 2009
• Stats Show Bill Payments Remain the Star of E-Checks on the ACH
May 27, 2009
• Four Years Later, a Lawsuit Springs from CardSystems Breach
• Kansas City Fed Chief Espouses ACH for Debit Card Processing
May 26, 2009
• How Walk-in Bill Pay, Prepaid Cards Could Win over Check Cashers
• UpClick Touts Free Processing In Return for Cross-Sell Offers
May 21, 2009
• Instant Issuance Comes to Stickers, Fobs, And NFC Phones
• Eye on Mobile Payments: Intuit, Bango Launch Card Services
May 20, 2009
• An Expert Casts Doubt on Stickers for Mobile Payments at the POS
• Congress Will Study Interchange And Eyes Rules for Gift Cards
May 18, 2009
• NRF Exec: Non-Credit Card Discounts Have a ’50-50’ Chance
• A Startup Aims to Bring Teens & Tweens into E-Commerce
May 14, 2009
• The Senate Mulls Easing Discounts for Non-Credit Card Payments
• Passions Are Far from Cooling in Debate over Card Interchange
May 13, 2009
• RBS Gets an OK on PCI, But Is It Back in Visa’s Good Graces?
• Survey: Banks’ Post-Breach Reissuance Increasingly Costly
May 11, 2009
• Online Resources Seeks Peace With Its Biggest Shareholder
• CheXout Aims to Bridge Mobile Processors to Physical Payments
May 7, 2009
• A New Bill Seeks to Allow But Also Regulate Internet Bets
• Heartland Reports a Loss, While Carr Decries a MasterCard Fine
May 6, 2009
• Travelex Gives a Lift to MasterCard’s Year-Old Debit Platform
May 5, 2009
• By Snapping up Commerciant, BankServ Enters Mobile Market
• With Tri-Mode M-Banking, mFoundry Eyes High Growth
May 2009
• Digital Transactions May 2009
May 4, 2009
• Sour Economy, Costs Pressure Billers to Push Harder for E-Bills
May 1, 2009
• Debit Cards Propel What Growth There Is for MasterCard And Visa
April 30, 2009
• Merchant Group Pushes Card-Security Standard in Parallel to PCI
April 29, 2009
• How Nokia’s New Phone Could Be a Shot in the Arm for NFC
• EBay Boss Says PayPal Will Exceed One-Third of Company in ‘09
April 28, 2009
• CyberSource: Online Fraudsters Clipped Airlines for $1.4 Billion
April 27, 2009
• Remote Key Loading Good for ISOs And Retailers, Says Hypercom
April 24, 2009
• You Can’t Set It And Forget It with PCI, Network Execs Say
April 23, 2009
• How Washington's Credit Card Fray Could Hammer Acquirers
• PCI for Small Merchants Gives Rise to Headaches, Opportunities
April 22, 2009
• Terminal Rivals Cooperate on Plan for Card Data Security
• First Atlantic Denies IRS Allegations in Offshore Tax Investigation
April 20, 2009
• Money Transmitters Shrug off Recession, Downplay New Channels
April 17, 2009
• First Data Reviews Request from Feds On Offshore Merchants
• It’s Not Perfect, But PCI Helps Secure Card Data, Study Finds
April 16, 2009
• Visa’s payWave Platform Connects with the Vending Machine Market
April 15, 2009
• How a Shakeout in Processing Is Culling the Ranks of Major Players
• Test Yields Upbeat Results for Bling Nation’s On-Us Platform
April 14, 2009
• A Rival Emerges to the Fed’s Plan for Faster ACH Clearing
April 10, 2009
• Eyeing New Markets, A Niche Payment Player Wards off Recession
April 9, 2009
• Tempo Plans Some Noise for a Quiet Decoupled Debit Card Market
• Consumers Still Unimpressed by Mobile Banking and Payments
April 7, 2009
• New Mobile App Books And Pays for Taxi Rides in 27 Metro Areas
• Surprise! Mobile-Banking Adoption Depends on Phone, Not Age
April 6, 2009
• Internet Pioneer Case Promotes RevolutionCard to Audience of Bankers
April 2, 2009
• Recession Is Boosting Some Prepaid Cards, But Profits Are Lagging
• Fraudsters Beef up Attacks on Checks As the ‘Weakest Link’
April 1, 2009
• FIS’s Metavante Acquisition To Create a Processing Powerhouse
April 2009
• Digital Transactions April 2009
March 31, 2009
• Contactless Stickers for Cell Phones Move onto Payments Networks
• There’s No Bill, But the Interchange War Heats up in D.C. All the Same
March 30, 2009
• Sale of Fifth Third Processing Biggest Such Deal in More Than a Year
March 27, 2009
• Now in Pilot, Visa’s Consumer Alerts Set to Roll out Later This Year
March 26, 2009
• Acquiring Gains at First Data Despite a Tough Merchant Environment
March 25, 2009
• Merchants Vent Their Ire over Checkout Pricing on Google Site
March 24, 2009
• Heartland Gets Hedge-Fund Investment And Warns Rival Processors
• Bill Me Later (And Thus eBay) Enters Tax Payments Via Link2Gov
March 23, 2009
• Pulse Becomes Third EFT Network to Agree to Test Online PIN Debit
March 18, 2009
• With Antonini’s Abrupt Departure, Cardtronics Looks for a New Boss
March 17, 2009
• To Cut Fraud Losses, Don’t Wait for Chargebacks, Apple Says
• Higher Fees Could be Rainmakers for the Bank Card Networks
• Breach-Related Woes Continue to Pile up for Beleaguered Heartland
March 16, 2009
• While Google Checkout Reprices, eBay Eyes Big Growth for PayPal
March 14, 2009
• Visa Acts Against Heartland, RBS—But Some Say It’s Not Enough
March 11, 2009
• Reload Competition Heats up with Visa’s MoneyGram Deal
• Hypercom Sees a Hit from the Recession, Exchange Rates
• A Cautious Chase Paymentech Signs Up for Online PIN Debit
March 10, 2009
• Acquirers Enlarge the AmEx and Discover Merchant Networks
• Heartland to Release Breach News—Though When It Can’t Say
• Retailers Form Association To Defend Closed-Loop Gift Cards
March 5, 2009
• Study: Fraud Could Drive Consumers To Non-Bank Online Payments
• Web-Based PIN Debit Picks up Momentum with a Pilot and New Deals
March 4, 2009
• VeriFone Hopes to Counter Worldwide Slump with Security Push
March 3, 2009
• Paymate Adds an Aussie Accent to Crowded Online Payments Market
March 2, 2009
• Why the Fed Is Moving to Same-Day Clearing for E-Checks
• Some Interchange Rates Up, Some Down, With Higher Auth Fees
February 27, 2009
• Eye on Earnings: Cardtronics, TIO, Online Resources
February 26, 2009
• New Products Could Spur Holdouts to Jump into Image Exchange
• Discover’s Prepaid Teen Card Is the Latest Entry in a So-So Market
February 24, 2009
• Push for Deposits Lends Impetus to Consumer And Mobile Capture
• No Confirmation So Far for Multiple Reports of Another Breach
• Metavante Finds Adoption Rates Climbing for Expedited Bill Pay
February 19, 2009
• A New Service Lets Car Renters Pay Tolls with RFID Transponders
February 18, 2009
• Online Spending Sags, But Not As Much as Overall Retail Sales
• Visa Agrees to Work with GSMA on Standards for Mobile Payments
• Wal-Mart Slashes Fees on Prepaid MoneyCard As Economy Slumps
February 17, 2009
• New Banking Group Aims at Smoothing out Image-Exchange Process
• UATP Keeps Its Eye on Alternative Payments—and Hotels
February 12, 2009
• ACH Bill Payments Shine As Other E-Checks Dim with Check Decline
• Merchant Warehouse Launches a Terminal-Based Rate Cutter
February 11, 2009
• Noca Stresses Low-Cost ACH Payments for Online Merchants
• How Checking Fees Create An Opening for Prepaid Cards
February 10, 2009
• Mazooma Launches As Consumers Seek out Alternatives to Credit
February 9, 2009
• More ID Fraud Cases Stem from Data Breaches, Report Says
February 5, 2009
• It’s Hunker-Down Time for the Bank Card Networks
• Amazon Launches Flexible Payments As a Commercial Service
February 4, 2009
• NACHA Group Close to Proposals for Mobile Payments on the ACH
• RBS WorldPay Rocked by ATM Fraud As New CEO Takes the Helm
February 3, 2009
• Court: AmEx Can’t Use Arbitration To Thwart Merchant Class Actions
February 2, 2009
• ISO First American Seeks Early Mover Advantage with Remote Capture
January 30, 2009
• Can Facebook Grasp the Payments Opportunity Now in Front of It?
January 28, 2009
• Pricing Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story About Merchant Attrition
• The Recession Is Sending Rates of Friendly Fraud Up, Processors Say
January 27, 2009
• ‘Difficult’ Times Hammer the Centurion’s Card And Acquiring Results
January 26, 2009
• Credit Losses at Bill Me Later Climb Past 8% But Don’t Faze eBay
• Heartland’s Carr Calls for End-to-End Encryption To Stop Breaches
January 22, 2009
• Watch Gen Yers with iPhones to Figure out Next-Gen Payment Plans
• Banks’ Card Reissuance Indicates Probable Scope of Heartland Breach
January 21, 2009
• New Fax Product Aims at Easing Remote Capture for Low-Volume Users
January 20, 2009
• PCI’s Shield Suffers Another Blow As Heartland Reports a Hack
January 19, 2009
• That Sucking Sound Is the Downdraft in Big Banks’ Charge Volumes
• MasterCard: Paper Not Opening Salvo in ’09 Interchange Wars
January 15, 2009
• The Challenge Confronting PayPal, Google, And Amazon
• Century Payments Forms to Pursue Opportunities in Acquiring
• Maverick Launches with Merchant-Issued Debit Cards, Prepaid Cards
• How Some Retailers Have Bolstered Their Gift Cards’ Firepower
January 13, 2009
• Banking Processors Quietly Grab Market Share in Mobile Services
January 12, 2009
• Entrenching Itself with Merchants, First Data Enhances Its POS Line
January 8, 2009
• How the End of E-Commerce As We Know It Spawns Opportunity
• With Breaches Rising, Insurer Offers Card-Compromise Coverage
• Behind Wausau’s Plans to Recruit ISOs to Sell Remote Deposit Capture
January 7, 2009
• ISO YapStone Enters Utility Payments with Paymerica Acquisition
January 5, 2009
• MasterCard’s $100 Million Orbiscom Deal Points to New Markets
• Though It Has a Small Share, the iPhone Rings Up Payments Innovation
January 1, 2009
• How the Onset of Web 2.0 Puts E-Commerce up for Grabs
December 31, 2008
• Bill Me Later Not Likely to Suffer from Its Ouster from Amazon
• Facebook Balks, But Expect Social Networks to Launch Payments
December 29, 2008
• Fraudsters Run One-Stop Shop Online to Sell Data-Stealing Code
December 24, 2008
• Software And Smart Phones Will Drive Mobile Payments, Report Says
December 23, 2008
• Online Holiday Sales Track with Last Year, But Average Tickets Drop
• RBS WorldPay Breach Rings Alarm Bells About Acquirer Security
December 18, 2008
• Boston Transit System Tests Mobile Payments for Commuter Parking
• Mobile-Payments Startup Paymo Aims at Tough Micropayments Market
• No Letting up on the Merchant-Acquiring Throttle at Discover
December 17, 2008
• Terminal Kingpin VeriFone Doesn’t See a Turnaround Until 2010
• Schools And State Agencies Eye NACHA’s Online Payment System
December 16, 2008
• RemitPro Launches All-in-One Pricing for Remote Deposit Capture
December 12, 2008
• United Bank Card Looks for Growth from New POS Product Line
December 10, 2008
• Online Merchants May Have a Tougher Time with Fraud in 2009
December 9, 2008
• Processors Jockey for Position in Fast-Growing Digital-Content Market
• An AmEx-Delta Cobrand Deal Carries Acquiring, Debit Implications
• With NFC Stalled, Mobile Payments Will Follow Other Paths, Report Says
December 8, 2008
• Fraudsters Moving on from Stored Data to Thefts of Data in Transit
December 4, 2008
• How a Security Mandate Could Force Software Vendors out of Payments
• Credit Unions Expected to Lead the Charge into Consumer Capture
• Eyeing Debit, Visa Posts Its Canadian Interchange Rates on the Web
December 3, 2008
• Why NYCE Plans To Test Two Online PIN Debit Systems in Parallel
December 2, 2008
• A New LML Patent Could Bring It a Bonanza in E-Check Fees
• Mobile Banking Appeals More to Small Businesses Than to Consumers
November 26, 2008
• Deal with TRM Unit Gives Select-A-Branch Access to National Market
• Banks Make Strides in Fighting ID Fraud, But Lag in Mobile Alerts
November 25, 2008
• Mobile Banking Moves to the Point of Sale with Consumer Incentives
• Burden of Final UIGEA Rule May Not Be As Heavy As Some Expected
November 24, 2008
• Slowing ISO Orders Clip Revenues for Terminal Kingpin VeriFone
• How the Coming of Duality Could Simplify Canadian Acquiring
November 20, 2008
• PayPal’s Chief Proposes Direct Links Between Banks And PayPal
November 19, 2008
• Bling Nation Harnesses Contactless for an On-Us Payments Network
• U.S. Bank Hikes Contactless Adoption with Targeted Issuance
November 18, 2008
• Heartland Gets Into the Loyalty Business with Its Chockstone Deal
• NYCE Revives ‘Safe Debit’ Name for PINless Debit Test Set for '09
November 17, 2008
• The PCI Council Starts a Quality-Control Program for Assessors
November 13, 2008
• Startup Kount Looks to Chase Paymentech Deal for Accelerated Growth
• Shell Seeks to Cut Acceptance Costs, Pump Up Loyalty With ACH Card
November 12, 2008
• A Sour Economy Won’t Hurt Online Shopping—Or Alternative Payments
November 11, 2008
• A Big ISO Seeks to Help Merchants Sort out Myriad Business Systems
• MoneyGram May Struggle for Traffic on Vcoms, Expert Warns
November 10, 2008
• Electronic Payments Are Poised To Ride Out Economic Storms
November 6, 2008
• With Infonox, TSYS Acquiring Gears up for Boom in Transactions
• How US Dataworks Hopes to Grease the Skids for Remote Capture
November 5, 2008
• First Data-InComm Deal Appears To Be Casualty of Economic Tailspin
• Will New DoJ Inquiry Lead to More Litigation for Card Networks?
November 4, 2008
• As with Visa, MasterCard Sees Debit Growth Offsetting Credit Malaise
November 3, 2008
• As Chase and First Data Part Ways, Chase Eyes Alternative Payments
October 30, 2008
• In the U.S., Visa Banks on Debit As Credit Growth Goes Negative
• MasterCard Sees New Service As a Big Step Toward Commercial NFC
October 29, 2008
• New BBB-Backed Payroll Card Program Aims at Fast Growth
October 28, 2008
• Taxes and Morgan Stanley Erode Discover's Settlement Gains
• Canada Is Set to Start a National Rollout of Chip-Equipped Debit Cards
October 27, 2008
• ISOs, Economic Crunch Could Spur Banks to Push Remote Capture
• Drop in Check Writing Cools off Once Red-Hot ACH E-Checks
October 24, 2008
• ‘Interesting Times’ Await ISOs As Congress Eyes Card Legislation
October 23, 2008
• A Major Merchant Tells What It Wants To See in POS Technology
• Online PIN Debit Pilot Could Lead to Commercial Service by Mid ‘09
October 21, 2008
• Moneta Seeks Growth in Alternative Payments by Working with Banks
• Downturn’s Headwinds Slow Western Union’s Bill-Pay Business
October 20, 2008
• A Slumping Economy Hits AmEx’s Merchant-Acquiring Machine
October 17, 2008
• Western Union’s Expedited Offering Nears the Starting Gate
October 16, 2008
• Study Shows Growth for E-Payments, But Paper Lurks Under the Hood
October 15, 2008
• Contactless Payment Stickers Appear To Be Set for Prime Time
• Off-eBay Volume Tops Auction Payments for the First Time at PayPal
October 14, 2008
• Better ATM: Amazon Gift Cards Now, Network-Branded Cards Later
• Citi’s Mobile P-to-P Service Could See Commercial Launch in ‘09
October 9, 2008
• After a Long Delay, NACHA Eyes Mid ’09 As Soonest Start for DCT
• Time Is Short, But Revolution Money Sticks to Million-Merchant Goal
October 8, 2008
• More Big Merchants Comply, But PCI Likely Still Foreign to Small Fry
• Plenty of Upside for eBay in Bill Me Later Deal, Experts Say
October 7, 2008
• BART Pilot Results Prove Case for Multiaccount NFC, First Data Says
October 6, 2008
• Bill Me Later Extends eBay’s Payments Reach to Top Web Retailers
October 3, 2008
• Visa Could Score a Debit Win As Wachovia Jilts Citi for Wells
October 2, 2008
• Reputation, Products, Free Terminals Rank High in ISO Selection
• Visa Looks to Imaging ATMs to Offer Prepaid Card Reloads
October 1, 2008
• New Version of PCI Shows More Flexibility, While PABP Takes Hold
• An ACH-Based Bill-Pay Pilot Promises Fee Income to Banks
September 29, 2008
• How ProPay Plans to Leverage Its Position in eBay Transactions
• MasterCard Could Catch a Break from Citi’s Deal for Wachovia
September 26, 2008
• Chase’s WaMu Deal Puts MasterCard on the Debit Defensive
September 25, 2008
• Visa Plans Launches for Google’s Android, Nokia, And Money Transfer
September 24, 2008
• Interchange: the Unheralded Benefit of Unembossed Cards
September 23, 2008
• PDFs Offer Promising New Opportunity for Online Fraudsters
• A Bill Moves Ahead That Would Limit Scope of Online-Gambling Law
September 22, 2008
• ISOs Are Bullish About Pay-at-Table Market Despite Sour Economy
• Electronic Bill Pay Growing, But No Bonanza in Expedited Payments
September 19, 2008
• Debit Rivalry Heats up with National City, RBS Shifts to Visa
September 18, 2008
• Moneris Fills a Gap With Its Pending Humboldt Acquisition
• Funding in Hand, eBillme Zeroes in on Consumer Cash Preference
September 17, 2008
• Mobile Access, Rising Fees Lift Potential in Expedited Payments
September 16, 2008
• An Over-the-Air Test Could Move NFC Closer to Commercial Use
• Payments Changes at eBay Go Well Beyond Tossing out Checks
September 11, 2008
• A Hot Item for Years, NACHA’s ARC Begins to Cool off
September 10, 2008
• New Group Will Hammer out Rules for Cross-Border Online Payments
• Temperatures Rise in Canadian Merchant Protest over Card Fees
September 9, 2008
• Latest DataTreasury Settlements Add to Pressure on Defendants
• Fiserv Scores Mobile ‘Triple Play,’ But No POS Payments Soon
September 8, 2008
• Viewpointe Picks up Image Settlement with Its PaymentsNation Deal
September 4, 2008
• BOC Will Remain a Minor League E-Check, Expert Says
• Canadian Business Group Warns of Higher POS Debit Pricing
September 3, 2008
• E-Commerce Faces a Rapidly Rising Threat from Fraudsters’ Malware
• PayPal’s Airline Business Gains More Altitude with Continental
September 2, 2008
• Merchant Gripes Led Startup Comparison Site to Focus on Processing
September 1, 2008
• ISOs Hope To Influence Upcoming Merchant Reporting Regulations
August 28, 2008
• Public Sector Drives Network-Branded Prepaid Card Growth
August 27, 2008
• Users Proliferate, But Banks Face a Cost Squeeze in Online Bill Pay
August 26, 2008
• Post-IPO, the Bank Card Networks Open up To Go for Volume
• Eye on the Web: Biller Direct Grows, As Does U.S. Mobile Web Usage
• Both Sides Claim Victory After Judge Rules in Discover’s Antitrust Case
August 25, 2008
• NACHA’s Online Payment System Starts to Catch on on Campus
August 20, 2008
• AT&T Aims to Ring up Savings with e-Bills Via CheckFree Banks
• Online PIN Debit Gets a Boost with the Latest UATP Payments Deal
August 19, 2008
• Commercial in '09. Visa Alerts Will Include Two-Way Messaging
• The Coming PCI Update: Mostly Tweaks, but WEP Gets Whacked
• If You’re a Small Bank, the Trend Is Your Friend in Electronic Payments
August 18, 2008
• Debit Study: No-Surcharge, Rewards Get Hot, Contactless Cools off
August 14, 2008
• JPMorgan Offers Insurers a Prepaid Visa Card for Workers’ Comp
• Shift to Discount Stores Hurts First Data, But New Products Await
August 13, 2008
• Industry Insiders Say Billing Gaining Ground for Mobile Content Payments
• ATM Network MoneyPass Quietly Books a Slew of New Members
August 12, 2008
• Cardtronics Looks to Market Its In-House Processing Platform
• The Coming End of Big-Issuer Hegemony in Bank Card Payments
August 7, 2008
• Eye on Earnings: Heartland Payment Systems, TNS, FIS
• A Race to Stay Ahead of Hackers in Fixing a Massive Internet Flaw
August 6, 2008
• Merchants, Acquirers, and ISOs: Diverging Paths to the Future
• A Fed Dragnet Catches Some Big Fish, But Are the Hacks Solved?
• Blockbuster-NCR Deal Heats Up Competition in Unattended Payments
August 5, 2008
• NACHA Moves Back IAT Deadline to Allow More Time for Testing
July 31, 2008
• Critics Decry a Costly Merchant-Reporting Rule, But It’s Now the Law
• Debit Keeps the Bank Card Networks Humming
July 30, 2008
• Amazon Ramps Up the Online-Payments Competition
July 29, 2008
• Doldrums Over, Summer Winds Fill Sails of Alternative Payments
• Obopay’s Price Hike Has Evoked No User Complaints, Processor Says
July 28, 2008
• With Eight Months to Go, Some Banks May Have to Scramble To Do IATs
July 23, 2008
• POP’s Still on a Roll a Year After BOC’s Debut
• A High-Tech Card Maker Aims for ‘Holy Grail’ of Transaction Cards
• Eye on Earnings: American Express, USA Technologies, Fifth Third
July 22, 2008
• Online Banking Grows at BofA and Chase, But Who Is “Active?”
• TNS Hopes Its Dial-up-to-IP Converter Will Draw Cost-Conscious Merchants
• An Impatient ISO Retools to Sell Emerging Transaction Technology
July 17, 2008
• With UIGEA Reform Stymied, a Web-Gambling Tax Bill Emerges
July 16, 2008
• House Committee Passes Interchange Bill, But Scraps Panel of Judges
• New Merchants, Account Growth Propel PayPal's Non-Auction Volume
July 15, 2008
• With Boston on Board, Select-A-Branch Plans Further Expansion
• Up Only a Week, ChargeSmart’s Next Step Is Lender Tie-Ins
July 14, 2008
• Bill Me Later’s Growth Plans Don’t Stop at Amazon Acceptance
July 10, 2008
• Google’s Gmail Joins eBay and PayPal in Phishing Fight
July 9, 2008
• A MyGallons Rival Emerges to Let Users Lock in Gas Prices
• Visa Rule Change Means Little Change for Web-Based PINless Debit
July 8, 2008
• Obopay Maps a Strategy for Mobile Payments in ‘Niche’ Markets
July 7, 2008
• A Prepaid Card That Lets Consumers Lock in Gas Prices Seeks a Network
• Electronic Bill Pay Gains At Paper’s Expense, But Growth Is Slowing
July 2, 2008
• Raw Data-Breach Numbers Rise, But the Real Picture Is Fuzzy
• An Extension of Security Rules to Unattended Terminals Could Be Costly
July 1, 2008
• Viewpointe Adds to Momentum Behind Web Links for Image Exchange
• Gasoline Marketers Underwhelmed by New Visa Interchange Rates
• A Visa Rule Change Prompted by DoJ Could Foster PINless Debit
June 30, 2008
• FTC, DoJ Are Leery of Bills That Would Regulate Interchange Rates
June 26, 2008
• Remotely Created Checks Linked to Image Exchange Stoke Fraud Fears
• A PCI Deadline Approaches for Internet Application Security
June 25, 2008
• Processors, Merchants Fret As Card-Reporting Measure Advances
June 24, 2008
• Free-Terminal Kingpin Launches Integrated POS System for Merchants
• Why Online Resources Is Linking to DolEx, Other Walk-in Operators
• After Abruptly Shuttering Its Service, Assurz Files for Bankruptcy
June 20, 2008
• PayPal To Roll out New Fraud Filters with Channel Partners by January
• Revolution Money Aims for 1 Million Merchants, Cardholders by Year End
June 19, 2008
• MasterCard Plans to Have U.S. P-to-P Service Launched by Early ‘09
June 18, 2008
• A New Card Swipe Device Could Move PayPal Closer to POS Payments
June 17, 2008
• Five Steps Online Merchants Can Take to Batten Down Their Sites
June 16, 2008
• Merchants Should Consider Open-Loop Variants to Prepaid Cards
June 12, 2008
• How Customer Research Can Sort Out Alternative Payment Choices
• Global Security Fears Remain a Drag on Mobile Banking and Payments
June 10, 2008
• Online Merchant Counsels Retailers on Controlling Payment Costs
• Study: POS Debit Rises, While Consumers Confirm PIN Preference
June 9, 2008
• Security Fears Remain a High Hurdle for New Payments Technologies
• Survey Finds Low Prepaid Market Penetration Among Underbanked
June 5, 2008
• Durbin Adds Senate Bill to House Effort to Rein in Interchange
June 4, 2008
• How Tyfone Looks to Free Banks from Carriers in Mobile Payments
• How U.S. Bank Hopes To Catch a Wave in Contactless Payments
June 3, 2008
• Indiana Bank’s Debit Card Breach Underscores Issuer Vulnerability
• New Electronic Benefit Options Score High in Michigan on First Day
June 2, 2008
• Researcher Sees Issuers’ Service Providers as PCI ‘Hot Spots’
May 30, 2008
• A Senate Letter Ratchets up the Heat on Networks over Interchange
May 29, 2008
• New ‘Mobile Lockbox’ Service Could Help Drive Expedited Payments
May 28, 2008
• Payment Issues Figure Among Reasons for Checkout Abandonment
• Visa Extends Fraud-Recovery Process to PIN-Debit Transactions
May 27, 2008
• How Chase And First Data Are Splitting Chase Paymentech
• How Far Will BofA And Wells Go with Their New ACH Platform?
May 22, 2008
• GAO Report Sheds Light on Federal Card-Acceptance Costs
• Once Languishing, POP Now Gets a Warm Welcome from Merchants
May 21, 2008
• Igourmet Says Security Led It to Adopt Secure Vault Payments
• A Fast Start for Online Resources’ Expedited Bill-Pay Offering
May 20, 2008
• Pariter Will Focus Its Efforts on BofA And Wells, CEO Says
May 19, 2008
• Answering Analysts, First Data Keeps Mum About Chase Paymentech
May 15, 2008
• Interchange Hearing Pits Small Merchant Against Small Credit Union
May 14, 2008
• Bullish Projections Mask Usage Problem for Contactless Payments
• Due out in October, PCI Update Will Consist of Tweaks, Council Says
May 13, 2008
• Alternative Payments Make Gains Among Mid-Size Web Merchants
• As Hearing Nears, Another Interchange Bill Is in the Works
• NACHA’s New Boss Has Card, Merchant Acquiring Background
May 8, 2008
• Coming Soon to Cardtronics Vcom Kiosks: Imaged Deposits
• Cap One Says Its Decoupled Debit Card Pilots Ended on Schedule
May 7, 2008
• Stats Show a Surge in Paying Banks Now Receiving Check Images
• Eye on Earnings: Hypercom, ORC, USA Technologies, Jack Henry
May 6, 2008
• Now Live, NACHA’s Secure Vault Payments Looks to ‘Ramp up’ in '08
May 5, 2008
• A Diversifying Heartland Snaps up Alliance Data’s Merchant Unit
May 1, 2008
• Moosejaw Not Part of a Strategy to Do POS Payments, PayPal Says
• Robust for Years, Debit Growth Expected to Weaken, Study Says
• Google Checkout Hints No Ill Effects Since Merchant Pricing Resumed
April 29, 2008
• First Data Gets Major Retail Prepaid Distribution with InComm Deal
• A Renewed Effort at ACH-Based Driver’s Licenses Maps Its Plans
• ‘Challenging’ Times for Visa, MasterCard, But Debit Surges Ahead
April 24, 2008
• PayPal Launches Its First Mobile Service on a Downloadable Application
April 23, 2008
• TRM Looks to Revival with $15 Million Deal for Access To Money
April 22, 2008
• Non-Auction Sales for PayPal Near Half of Processor’s Total Volume
• ELayaway Gets Set for Expansion After a Low-Key Start
April 21, 2008
• Alliance Data Peddles Its Acquiring Unit As Blackstone Deal Crashes
• New Bill Would Block Regs Aimed at Stopping Online Gaming Payments
April 17, 2008
• PCI Council Will Tighten Data-Security Rules, Details to Come
• After Two Months, Signs Are Positive for Multi-Account NFC Pilot
• Tax Bill Could Be Greater Threat Than Interchange Proposal for Acquirers
April 16, 2008
• Authorize.Net Rolls out Simple Checkout for Small Online Sellers
April 14, 2008
• Shell Lowers MasterCard, AmEx Pricing for Its Jobbers And Retailers
April 11, 2008
• Bankrupt Frontier Airlines Claims First Data Tried To Clip Its Wings
April 10, 2008
• How Mobile Candy Dish Combines Handset-Based P-to-P with NFC
April 9, 2008
• Bigger Volume Jumps Are in Store for BOC E-Checks, NACHA Says
• Terminal Maker VeriFone Steps into the Busy Data-Security Arena
April 8, 2008
• MasterCard Looks to Pick up Debit Volume And Share with IPS
April 7, 2008
• Pay By Touch Fades into History As Lenders Buy Core Assets
• Discover Triples Its Acceptance Network with Diners Club Deal
April 4, 2008
• WaMu’s Contactless Plunge Could Win over Skeptical Merchants
April 3, 2008
• ATM Direct’s New Bosses Say They Will ‘Own’ PIN Debit Online
April 2, 2008
• Obopay Moves to Allow Direct Payments from User Checking Accounts
April 1, 2008
• Plunging Check Volumes Spur Fed to Speed up Downsizing Efforts
• New P-to-P Service for Underbanked Looks to Launch M-Wallets
March 31, 2008
• Malware at Hannaford Raises More Questions About Data Security
March 28, 2008
• Pay By Touch Selling Merchant Business to Merrick for $2 Million
March 27, 2008
• How Phishing Threatens Banks' Efforts to Rely More on E-Mail
March 26, 2008
• Green Appeals Effective in Recruiting e-Bill Users, Research Shows
March 25, 2008
• New Check Data Show Steady Rise of Electronic Options
March 24, 2008
• Banks, Processors Struggle with Proposed Regs for Web Gambling
• After BOC’s First Year, Ex-Banker Laments Slow Start for E-Check
March 19, 2008
• For One Day, Cash Is King at Visa As Its IPO Soars
• Pay By Touch Abruptly Shuts Down All Biometric Operations
March 18, 2008
• Mobile P2P ‘Could Take off in a Hurry,’ Researcher Notes
• Hannaford Bros. Was in Compliance with PCI When Hacked
• New Metavante Software Aims to Ease Banks’ Way into NACHA Pilot
March 17, 2008
• Hannaford’s Big Breach Casts More Doubt on Data Security
March 14, 2008
• First Data Filing Points to Break-up of Chase Paymentech
March 13, 2008
• Fraud Prevalence Levels off, But Incident Rate Increases
• Overstock.com Says PayPal Yields Triple Expected Volume
March 12, 2008
• Big Gap Yawns Between Banks, Small Businesses on Scanner Prices
March 11, 2008
• Following Citi Mobile, Bank Giant Forms Global M-Banking Venture
March 10, 2008
• Interchange Bill Raises Questions About Role of Government
March 7, 2008
• Pay By Touch Auctions off ATM Direct, BioPay Paycheck Secure
March 6, 2008
• ‘Friendly Fraud’ Grows Worse, But Chargebacks Winnable, Expert Says
March 5, 2008
• Wal-Mart Exec Happy with MoneyCard, But Stays Mum on Details
• Banks Must Recruit Consumers to Fight ID Fraud, Researcher Warns
March 4, 2008
• Could Free Scanners Unlock Small Businesses for Remote Capture?
March 3, 2008
• M-Commerce Spawns New Forms of Money Laundering, U.S. Warns
February 29, 2008
• Cardtronics Looks for 2008 Payoff from Former 7-Eleven Vcom Fleet
February 28, 2008
• Visa Filing Confirms Heavy Investment in Merchant And Issuer Incentives
February 27, 2008
• Smart Card Marketing, HomeATM Enable PIN Debit Online, at Stores
February 26, 2008
• An Acquiring Paradox: Discounts Are Squeezed, But Spreads Are up
• Euronet Far from Certain It Will Renew Its Pursuit of MoneyGram
February 25, 2008
• Visa Looks for a Record IPO in Defiance of Wall Street Headwinds
February 22, 2008
• Beleaguered Pay By Touch Looks To Sell Itself in Two Auctions
February 21, 2008
• MasterCard Cuts Interchange for Rent, Utilities, and Insurance
• New York-New Jersey Mass Transit Plans Contactless Pilot
February 20, 2008
• How an Incentive Boom Could Push Visa, MasterCard into Acquiring
February 19, 2008
• With $20.5 Million in Fresh Capital, IPP Prepares To Execute
• An APWG Panel Lobbies Web Registries to Shut Down Phishing Sites
February 14, 2008
• Citi Makes a Down Payment on M-Payments with ViVOtech Stake
• TSYS Joins Rivals First Data, Metavante in Mobile Banking And Payments
February 13, 2008
• With Internet Hurdles Higher, Fraudsters Pick up the Phone
February 12, 2008
• Clear Originator ID for Consumers Is NACHA’s Latest Risk Measure
February 11, 2008
• Intrigue Envelops Hypercom As It Mulls Ingenico Buyout Offer
• LendingTools Sparks Growth with Image Exchange for Small Banks
February 7, 2008
• Eye on Earnings: Quarterly Results at Visa, Fiserv, Jack Henry, Tier
February 6, 2008
• PCI Council Streamlines Self-Assessment Forms, Targets Software
• Hy-Vee Gives Thumbs up to BOC, Works on Chainwide Rollout
• 10% of Mobile Banking Enrollees Are New to Wachovia, Bank Reports
February 5, 2008
• Fiserv-CheckFree Brings Remote Capture to Online Consumer Banking
February 4, 2008
• Report: Merchants Need Interchange Breaks to Adopt Contactless
January 31, 2008
• A Rapidly Growing PayPal Makes a Big Bid to Beef up Security
• Debit Traffic Now Bigger Than Credit Transactions for MasterCard
January 30, 2008
• New Chargeback-Prevention Service Aims To Thwart Friendly Fraud
• San Francisco NFC Pilot Tests Rewards As Well As Payments
January 29, 2008
• Javien Finds Growth Where Others Failed—in Micropayments
January 28, 2008
• Blackstone’s Alliance Data Deal Could Be Latest Victim of Credit Crunch
• MasterCard Streamlines OTA for Its Spokane M-Payments Pilot
January 24, 2008
• Growth at Spin-offs TSYS, Metavante, But Not All Is Rosy
January 23, 2008
• Banks Face an ISO Challenge in Remote Capture for Health Care
• Merchant Signings Help Fuel Fourth-Quarter Gains for PayPal
January 22, 2008
• Nova’s Deal for Southern DataComm Gives It a Hospitality Gateway
• Visa Reports Mid-Sized Merchants Are Making PCI Progress
January 21, 2008
• Phishing Sites Proliferate, But Experts Say Help Is on the Way
January 17, 2008
• With Alogent, Goldleaf Steps onto the Remote-Deposit Escalator
January 16, 2008
• Global Payments Looks to New Platform for Faster Merchant Integration
• Survey Hints at Role of Free Processing in Rise of Alternative Payments
January 15, 2008
• Ready Credit And CheckFree Get Set to Offer Kiosk-Based Bill Pay
January 14, 2008
• Final Numbers Show Robust Increases in Holiday Spending Online
• Banks Comfortable with Prepaid Cards--Possibly Too Comfortable
January 10, 2008
• A Pared-Down Pay By Touch Takes Bids for 'Non-Core' Units
• Mocapay Readies for a National Rollout of Its M-Commerce Service
January 9, 2008
• With Its Fiserv Deal, Viewpointe Sees a Big Year for Image Sharing
• Consumers Want Just One Account for NFC Payments, Survey Says
January 8, 2008
• Citibank’s ATM Restriction Spotlights Rising Withdrawal Limits
January 7, 2008
• USA Technologies’ Rental Program Boosts Contactless Vending
January 4, 2008
• A Rising Imaging Tide Lifts ECCHO’s Roster Past the 1,000 Mark
January 3, 2008
• A Big BOC Processor Looks for Big Growth for the E-Check in 2008
January 1, 2008
• EC Ruling on MasterCard Interchange Could Foster Regulation in the U.S.
December 28, 2007
• Eye on Gift Cards: A First Data Glitch Strikes the Day After Christmas
December 27, 2007
• Some Pay By Touch Owners Are Also Among Its Largest Creditors
December 26, 2007
• Online Sales Surge During a Lukewarm '07 Holiday Shopping Season
December 20, 2007
• Free of E-Wallets, ECHO Goes to the Altar with Intuit Once Again
December 19, 2007
• TJX Settles with Financial Plaintiffs in Breach Case—with One Holdout
December 18, 2007
• HomeATM Aims to Bring PIN Debit, Card Present Rates to the Web
• Survey: Consumers Lost $3.2 Billion to Phishing Attacks in 2007
December 17, 2007
• A New Web Site Seeks to Broaden the Market for Merchant Portfolios
• AmEx Takes a Leaf from Discover’s Acquiring Strategy—with a Twist
December 13, 2007
• Euronet Bids for MoneyGram, And Girds for a Fight If Necessary
• The FTC and Seven States Sue Processor for Aiding Suspect Merchants
December 12, 2007
• Google Checkout Extends Offer of Free Processing Another Month
December 11, 2007
• Cardtronics Slims Down Its IPO But Gets the Deal Done in Stormy Market
• Bill Me Later-Amazon Deal Could Be a Huge Boost for Both Parties
December 10, 2007
• PIN Debit And the ACH Among the Big Gainers in Fed Payments Study
December 6, 2007
• Survey Shows Heavy Carrier Reliance on Transaction Fees for NFC
• Back Office Conversion Growth Strong, But Big Gains May Come in ‘08
December 5, 2007
• NACHA Rule Targeted at Cap One’s Decoupled Debit Card, Sources Say
• Study Assails Corrosive Effects of Free Terminals on Acquiring Profits
December 4, 2007
• New Platform, APIs Let TIO Launch Strategy for Walk-in Payments
December 3, 2007
• TJX’s Settlement with Visa Casts Light on Murky World of PCI Penalties
November 29, 2007
• Under Its New CEO, IPP Maps Big Plans for Walk-in, Online Bill Pay
• 18 Months on, Discover Says Its Acquirer Program Is on Target
November 28, 2007
• NACHA Tightens Risk Management, Restricts Payment Aggregation
November 27, 2007
• Cyber Monday Traffic Soars, But Sites Labor Under the Strain
• Heartland Sues Micros, Chase Paymentech over Restaurant Transactions
November 26, 2007
• Profit Squeeze, Interchange, and PCI Top Acquirers’ Gripe List
November 21, 2007
• An EFT Summit Helps Costco Weigh Options for Web-Based PIN Debit
• Contactless Vending Gains 4,000 More Machines with Latest Pact
November 20, 2007
• Did Buyer’s Remorse at Cap One Sink the $700 Million NetSpend Deal?
November 19, 2007
• E-Commerce Sales Continue to Rack up Double-Digit Gains
• Embroiled in Boardroom Fight, Pay By Touch Gets a Temporary Boss
• With Plug-In, PayPal Looks for Expanded E-Commerce Reach
November 16, 2007
• Saddled with Post-IPO Debt, First Data Shaves Costs with Layoffs
November 14, 2007
• Firethorn Chief Says Qualcomm Deal Will Speed up M-Payments
• E-Commerce Fraud Rate Holds Steady, But Fraud-Control Costs Go Up
November 13, 2007
• Consumers And Wall Street Yawn at the Biggest Breach Yet
• AT&T: 10 Million Phones Will Be Preloaded for Banking by End of ‘08
November 12, 2007
• Though Still Shaky, a Smaller TRM Gets Closer to Profitability
November 10, 2007
• Its Overhaul Complete, Visa Shoots for the Moon with Its Pending IPO
November 8, 2007
• PCI Council: Software Security Guidelines To Be a Standard
• Retailers Must Do More To Tout Tap-And-Go, Expert Argues
• A Bill Offers Relief to Merchants Besieged by Suits over Receipts
November 7, 2007
• Before IPO, Visa Reaches a $2.25 Billion AmEx Antitrust Settlement
November 6, 2007
• Pay By Touch Melodrama Includes Board Fight and Possible Bankruptcy
• New Fed Pricing Expected to Spur Further Moves to Electronic Processing
November 1, 2007
• Merchants’ PCI Travails Prompt Security Program from Big Blue
• Amid Data Thefts, Visa's Software Rules Align More Closely with PCI
• Eye on Earnings: MasterCard, Heartland, Online Resources
October 31, 2007
• BSG Extends Its Bill-to-Phone Service to Mobile Commerce
October 30, 2007
• The Bell Is About To Ring for an Independent Metavante
• Other Shoe Drops As USPTO Affirms Second DataTreasury Patent
October 25, 2007
• Upon Further Review, Accounts Exposed in TJX Breach Double
• It's Official: Synovus Will Spin off Processor TSYS in $600 Million Deal
October 24, 2007
• Phishing Takes a Break As Attacks, Hosting Sites Slip in July
October 23, 2007
• By Arming Consumers, a Startup Hopes to Cut Down on ID Fraud
• With a Grip on Costs, TSYS Continues Its Post-BofA Recovery
October 22, 2007
• Eye on Earnings: Google Checkout Adds More Merchants
October 19, 2007
• Third Time Could Be a Charm for BB&T in Mobile Banking
October 18, 2007
• Banks Begin to Use SVPCO to Handle Check Images for Client Banks
October 17, 2007
• PayPal’s Strategy Bears Fruit As off-eBay Ratio Steadily Rises
October 16, 2007
• MasterCard Opens a PCI Schoolhouse Featuring ‘Tailor-Made’ Sessions
• With Verizon on Board, the Two Biggest Carriers Will Preload Firethorn
October 15, 2007
• Startup Certifies Diebold As First ATM Maker for Prepaid Card System
October 11, 2007
• Report: Debit Card Outlook Bright, But Banks Failing on Activation
• NACHA Close to Recruitment for Test of New Check-ACH Plan
October 10, 2007
• Startup TrialPay Lets Online Merchants Make Sales out of No Sales
• Yodlee Pairs Up with Western Union in Expedited Bill-Pay Play
October 9, 2007
• Discover Boosts Issuing Prospects Among Banks with TSYS Deal
October 8, 2007
• Eyeing the Point of Sale, Bill Me Later Readies Test for Core Service
October 4, 2007
• M-Commerce: Why Rollout, Patch Later Is a Dangerous Prescription
• Retailers Challenge the Networks’ Card-Data Storage Requirements
October 3, 2007
• Merchant Group’s Report to Lawmaker Triggers Interchange Tussle
October 2, 2007
• With Volumes Rising, Pulse Joins Trend to Upgrade Fraud Detection
• Key PCI Deadline Passes With Half of Big Merchants Compliant
October 1, 2007
• Online, Other Factors Beat Costs in Driving Alternative Payments
September 27, 2007
• Why Once-Soaring Contactless Payment Has Lost Some Altitude
• With TigerDirect, Assurz Scores Big And Sets the Stage for Growth
September 26, 2007
• Revolution Money Expects to Gain Traction Early with Merchants
September 25, 2007
• It’s Labry up And Bailis out As KKR Completes Its First Data LBO
September 24, 2007
• Cellular South Looks to Roll out First Commercial U.S. NFC Service
• TJX Settlement Leaves the Bigger Card-Security Issues Unsettled
September 21, 2007
• When It Comes to Online Security, It’s All About the Money
September 20, 2007
• Discover Adds Chase Paymentech, Says More Acquirer Deals Coming
September 19, 2007
• A Startup’s Technology Turns ATMs into Prepaid Card Dispensers
• Advice for M-Payments Entrepreneurs: Aim at the Underbanked
September 18, 2007
• Survey: 42% of Consumers Ditch Online Transactions After a Glitch
• First Data Cuts Data Centers As Its Road Show Starts
September 13, 2007
• The New Irony of Signature Cards: Good at Fraud, Bad at Risk
• New Biller Categories, More Vendors Spur PINless Debit Growth
September 12, 2007
• After a Delay, NACHA Unveils Interchange, Other Pricing for SVP
• BancorpSouth out to Show Smaller Banks Can Succeed in M-Banking
September 11, 2007
• Sued by FTC, MPI Begins Turnaround, Looks to Expand to Midwest
September 10, 2007
• How Cardtronics Could Make Use of $300 Million from Its IPO
September 7, 2007
• Why POS Merchants Don’t Buy in to Payment Security
September 5, 2007
• Striking New York City Cab Drivers Want To Drop off Cards
• M-Banking Will Beget M-Payments, But Not Without Labor Pains
September 4, 2007
• Phishing Attacks Nearly Hit an All-Time High in June, Report Says
• Google: Don’t Read Too Much into Our M-Payment Patent Application
• Discover Expands Its Gift Card Franchise Through a Big Mall Operator
August 30, 2007
• Good Consumers Will Show Up for Good Security Measures
• Diebold Sees Early Interest in Technology Linking Handsets to ATMs
• How a Software House Sells Remote Capture Directly to Merchants
August 29, 2007
• NYCE, Fair Isaac Focus on Terminal-Based PIN Debit Fraud Control
August 28, 2007
• Visa Gets a Boost for Prepaid Partial Authorization from Shell
• Pulse Takes Aim at the ACH with New Recurring PIN-less Service
August 23, 2007
• How We Have Managed to Turn the SSN into an SOS
• Check 21, BOC Come to E-Commerce Via USA ePay-Digital EFT Deal
• How a Data-Security Debate Is Holding Back NFC Payments
August 22, 2007
• Why a Small Bank Sees Big Things in College Prepaid Programs
August 21, 2007
• Star Fills in Some ATM Gaps With Its New Allpoint Connection
August 20, 2007
• Wachovia Milestone Points up Wider Adoption of Remote Capture
August 16, 2007
• More Contactless Taxis with MasterCard-VeriFone Projects
• How Non-Bank ATM Owners Are Culling Subpar Machines
August 15, 2007
• Visa Sets Interchange Penalty Under PCI: A One-Tier Downgrade
August 14, 2007
• More Consumers Use Card Sites to Pay Bills, Manage Accounts
• Time to Change the Weird Logic Behind Data Breaches
• Turbulent Financial Seas Won’t Sink First Data Buyout, Observers Say
August 10, 2007
• Deal with First Data, Star Gives Big Boost to M-Banking Startup
August 9, 2007
• New IP Commerce Deal Could Open Doors for ISOs, Developers
August 8, 2007
• Cap One Extends Debit Reach with $700 Million NetSpend Deal
• New PayPal Service Shows Retail Credit Has a New Life on the Web
August 7, 2007
• With NCR, FDC Stakes, ViVOtech Sees More Impetus for Contactless
August 6, 2007
• Amazon Officially Joins Online Payments Fray with 'Flexible Payments'
August 2, 2007
• CheckFree Deal Vaults Fiserv into Front Ranks of Bill Payment, ACH
August 1, 2007
• An Online Payments Product Soon? Amazon Refuses to Comment
July 31, 2007
• Visa Reports Progress on PCI Among Large and Small Merchants
• As Shareholders Okay KKR Deal, FDC Insists Buyout Is on Track
• A Startup Prepares a Dual POS/Online Contactless Card
July 30, 2007
• How Vending Payments Could Benefit from the Change in Reg E
July 26, 2007
• Online Resources’ $45 Million ITS Deal Beefs up Its Biller Business
July 25, 2007
• Early Signs Are Positive for Amtrak’s Wireless POS Devices
• BofA’s Envelope-less ATMs Show Imaging Is Catching on with Users
July 24, 2007
• If It Happens, a TSYS Spin-off Will Add to Industry Overhaul
July 23, 2007
• Volume Climbs for PayPal, While Some Sellers Will See Fees Rise
• Branded Prepaid Growth Is Lapping That of Private Label, Report Says
July 19, 2007
• A House Antitrust Panel Becomes the Latest Interchange Battlefield
July 18, 2007
• As Fishy Orders Rise, Startup Plans Product to Manage Online Fraud
• Visa Starts to Put Small Merchants Under Its PCI Microscope
July 17, 2007
• Card-Based Bill Payments Take Another Step with Billeo Product
• Eyeing Decoupled Debit Cards, Tempo Begins Wooing Bank Issuers
July 16, 2007
• Image Exchange Hits Its Stride, But Clouds Form on the Horizon
July 13, 2007
• Green Dot Begins to Look Like the Go-To Prepaid Reload Network
July 12, 2007
• Hypercom’s CEO Steps Down Amid Restructuring Moves
July 11, 2007
• PayPal Launches What It Calls a Game-Changer for M-Commerce
July 10, 2007
• Despite a Strong Bench, First Data Picks an Outsider As Its New CEO
• Patent Office Validates a DataTreasury Image Exchange Patent
July 9, 2007
• Contactless Trend Will Wither Without Move to Handsets, Report Argues
July 5, 2007
• LBO Firms Take Note: Acquiring Is Now a ‘Quite Cyclical’ Business
• ‘Day of Reckoning’ Beckons As Image Volume Peaks in ‘08
• New Tool Lets Phishers Set up Bogus Sites in a Few Seconds
July 4, 2007
• An ISO Sees Tasty Potential in Online Ordering for Fast Food
July 3, 2007
• Theft of 2.3 Million Certegy Records Triggers Debate over Inside Jobs
July 2, 2007
• Now Independent, Discover Looks to Grow Issuing, Acquiring, Debit
June 28, 2007
• With Coghlan Out, Will Merchant Focus Survive at Visa?
• Northwest Deal Lets PayPal Gain Altitude in Online Travel Sales
June 27, 2007
• With an Eye on EFT, Fidelity Picks up eFunds with a $1.8 Billion Bid
June 26, 2007
• The Fed Says Just Four Check Sites Will Handle Paper by 2011
June 25, 2007
• Bill Payment Likely to Be a Key Function of Wal-Mart MoneyCard
• Litigation, Divergent Europe Among Risks Visa IPO Faces
June 22, 2007
• Another Rival for NACHA—with an International Flair
June 21, 2007
• How TransFirst’s New Boss Sizes up the Processor’s Opportunities
• Verizon Deal Lends Impetus to Obopay’s M-Commerce Drive
June 20, 2007
• Seeking More Revenue, Big Banks Get Set to Roll out 11th-Hour Bill Pay
June 19, 2007
• Prepaid Eyes the Potential in Consumer Rebates And Incentives
June 18, 2007
• ISO Ties Helped Seal CyberSource’s Bid for Authorize.Net
June 14, 2007
• PropertyBridge Brings PIN-less Debit to Residential Rent
• Google Checkout Scrubs Its Boston Party After Talks with eBay
June 13, 2007
• How a Startup Processor Plans to Take on NACHA in Web Payments
June 12, 2007
• Targeting eBay Ban, Google Checkout Plans Party to Reach Sellers
• TJX Confronts Another Big Bill Linked to Card-Data Breach
June 11, 2007
• Will MasterCard Win, Cap One Card Unleash Debit Brand Switching?
• RBS Set to Compete in the U.S. Market with a Payments Gateway
June 7, 2007
• Already a Rocket, Remote Capture Is Set to Shift to Warp Speed
• 'Biggest Thing Since PayPal,' Cap One Card Bids for Debit Share
June 6, 2007
• Cardtronics’ Latest ATM Deal Hands 7-Eleven a Hefty Payoff
June 5, 2007
• PayPal Mobile Services Get Major Boost in Internet Retailing
• As Account-Level Processing Takes Shape, Acquirer Impact Unclear
• Mobile Web Surfers Soar As Payments Players Rev up M-Commerce
May 31, 2007
• Contactless Usage May Be on the Rise, Reports Suggest
• Could the Ceridian Deal Lead to a Comdata-Certegy Combo?
• USA Technologies And Coke Bottler Strike Biggest Vending Deal Yet
May 30, 2007
• Retailers Still Have Long Way to Go on PCI, VeriFone Chief Says
• Emida-Q Comm Merger Could Expand Prepaid Market for ISOs
May 29, 2007
• MPI Case May Not Be the Last ISO Action, FTC Says
May 25, 2007
• PayPal Courts Businesses with Incentives And New Technology
May 24, 2007
• Report: M-Banking Set to Soar, Will Lead to NFC Payments
• The Winding Road That Led to the Pending Metavante Spin-off
May 22, 2007
• MODASolutions Rechristens Its Service, Unveils Buyer Protection
• End of 50-Day “Go-Shop” Period Leaves KKR As Sole First Data Suitor
May 21, 2007
• Expert: Banks Should Mine Data Troves to Build Merchant Loyalty
May 17, 2007
• Eye on Private Equity: Deals for Alliance Data And TransFirst
May 16, 2007
• Retailers Get Ready To Roll Out FDC’s New Loyalty Platform
• Some Phishing News Not As Good As It Seems, Latest Report Says
May 15, 2007
• Image Exchange Hits Key Milestones at SVPCO, Viewpointe
• Credit Card Veteran Saunders Says He’s Hip to Electronic Payments
May 14, 2007
• Why Synovus Is Optimistic About NACHA’s Secure Vault Payments
May 11, 2007
• Less Hype, More Substance Now Behind M-Banking, M-Payments
• Processor Plans To Combine Prepaid MasterCards with Phones
May 9, 2007
• First Data Plans To Cut 12 Data Centers Down to Three by Mid ‘09
• Approached by Suitors, eFunds Starts a 'Strategic Review'
May 8, 2007
• How BOC’s Costs Create Opportunities for Check Processors
May 7, 2007
• Eye on Image Exchange: Volume Quintuples, SVPCO Gains in April
May 4, 2007
• A Startup’s Technology Starts to Accelerate M-Commerce
May 3, 2007
• Soaring Debit Traffic Helps Propel Revenue And Profit at MasterCard
• First Data’s ViVOtech Stake Could Pay off for Both Companies
May 2, 2007
• NACHA Will Soon Unveil Pricing for Its Online Payments Pilot
May 1, 2007
• Supreme Court Patent Ruling Won’t Affect Us, DataTreasury Says
April 30, 2007
• Banks Are Starting To Go Mobile, But Consumers Are Ho-Hum
April 26, 2007
• Some PCI Progress, But Visa Sends a List of Non-Compliant Software
• Tempo Boosts Merchant Base with Its Chase Paymentech Deal
April 25, 2007
• Visa Hopes ‘payWave’ Will Leverage Contactless Adoption Trends
April 24, 2007
• With Carreker in Hand, CheckFree Plans ‘All-Transactions’ File
April 23, 2007
• On Interchange, the NRF Turns to the States, Underscoring Sales Tax
• ACH Growth Sparking Membership Surge, NACHA Chairman Says
April 20, 2007
• With New GM, PCI Council Plans Webinars And Rules Update
April 19, 2007
• PayPal Logs a Strong Quarter to Cap a New Deal with Yahoo!
• Star To Test PIN-less Debit for Online Micropayments
• Chockstone Bought Peppercoin for Card-Linked Loyalty Offerings
April 17, 2007
• Wal-Mart Goes Chainwide with POP in Bid to Cut Payment Costs
• The Clearing House Prepares for Consumer Use of Payment Codes
April 13, 2007
• CheckFree’s Market Grows, But Biggest Customer Could Bolt
April 12, 2007
• Visa Hikes Overall Interchange 0.6%, Effective April 14
April 11, 2007
• Fraudsters Are Starting to Score Successes Against Online Banking
• Web Performance Could Help Elect the Next U.S. President
April 10, 2007
• Having Snagged 2Checkout, ATM Direct Aims at More Merchants
April 9, 2007
• Processors Report Major Leaps for Image Exchange So Far in ‘07
April 5, 2007
• FDC’s Authentication Play Sets It up for Contactless And M-Commerce
• HSBC’s New Rewards Program Could Spark Growth for Tempo
• Obopay Says Response ‘Super Positive’ for New M-Commerce Platform
April 4, 2007
• Citi Expects New Mobile Service to Reach More Than Half of Accounts
April 3, 2007
• If Spun off, Would Metavante Remain Independent for Long?
April 2, 2007
• ‘Barbarians’ Get Set to Take over First Data in a $29 Billion Buyout
March 29, 2007
• Scope of TJX Breach Has Some Questioning Attainability of PCI
March 27, 2007
• Eye on M-Commerce: Firethorn, Metavante, ViVOtech, MobileLime
• Web Gambling Torpedoes ECHO’s Deal To Be Acquired by Intuit
March 26, 2007
• Recent Breaches Could Be a Bonanza for a Startup Security Vendor
• Morgan Stanley Outlines Risks for an Independent Discover
• Current ACH Risk-Management Proposal To Be Followed by Two More
March 22, 2007
• A Startup Pitches Revenue from Receipt Ads to Merchants
• POP Continues Its Rebound, But Will BOC Take a Bite?
March 21, 2007
• Phishing Sets Record As Fraudsters Link Hands Across Borders
March 20, 2007
• A Telecom Processor Rolls out Gateway with Online Phone Billing
March 19, 2007
• Unfazed by Wal-Mart Pullout, Home Depot Presses on with ILC Plans
• An Investor Letter Sparks a Tussle Between the Terminal Kingpins
March 16, 2007
• NACHA Greets Debut of BOC with Cautious Expectations
March 15, 2007
• Study Finds ‘Pervasive And Increasing’ Fraud in Payments
March 14, 2007
• Image Exchange Kicked into a Higher Gear in January, Stats Show
• Payments Upstart GratisCard Aims to ‘Eliminate’ Interchange
March 13, 2007
• Tight Deadline for New Effort to Standardize Mobile Payments
March 12, 2007
• Visa, MasterCard Entry in Reloads May Aid Unbanked, Hike Income
March 9, 2007
• Digital Insecurity: No Place Left to Hide
March 8, 2007
• Consumers Blame Merchants Most for Card-Data Security Lapses
March 7, 2007
• Adding QuikTrip, Tempo Payments Pumps Up Its Issuing Ranks
• How Pay By Touch Hopes to Use Opticard to Add Merchants, ISOs
March 6, 2007
• Merchant Win on Interchange Would Help And Hurt Prepaid Cards
March 5, 2007
• Survey: Mass Reissuance May Be Overkill in Merchant Breach Cases
• Mobile-Game Sales Rising, But New Content Threatens Growth
March 1, 2007
• PayPal Mobile Close to Launching Service for Mobile Web Merchants
• A Down-Market Strategy Can Revive First Data—And Maybe the Industry
February 28, 2007
• MasterCard Raises Some Rates, Lowers Others for Web Retailers
• Visa Chief Lays out Prepaid Plan, Calls for Outreach to Regulators
February 27, 2007
• Police Arrest Four in Stop & Shop Breach As Legislation Looms
February 26, 2007
• New Service Launches to Let Cash Customers Pay Online Merchants
February 22, 2007
• FDC Exits Money Orders As Prepaid Cards, Walk-in Bill Pay Make Gains
• Getting Over the Inevitability of Alternative Payments
February 21, 2007
• TJX Reports Wider Breach, But No Data on Affected Accounts
• Fees for Last-Minute Payments Drop As Banks Build Customer Base
February 20, 2007
• Stop & Shop’s PIN Pad Breach Follows Similar Cases in Canada
February 19, 2007
• Community Banks See ‘Survival,’ New Business in Remote Capture
February 16, 2007
• The Illogical Battle Between PIN Debit And Signature Debit
• A Prosperous Comdata Could Have an Independent Future
February 15, 2007
• Some Small Towns Loom Large in Latest ID Fraud Research
February 14, 2007
• CheckFree Spends Big for Corillian, But Gains Key Bill-Pay Assets
February 13, 2007
• Discover Taps Motorola’s M-Wallet for Two-City Mobile Test with NFC
• Kabira Courts Acquirers, Networks for New High-Capacity Switch
February 12, 2007
• Long-Time Credit Card Exec Saunders Takes over Embryonic Visa Inc.
February 8, 2007
• Data Breaches Don’t Spur As Much Fraud As Stolen Cards, Other Causes
• The Industry’s Self-Denial About the Maturing of Credit Cards
• PCI Council Adds Members, Hires First General Manager
February 7, 2007
• IRD Volume Drops for First Time As Image Clearing Keeps Rising
• Consumers Want Spotlight on Interchange, Merchant Poll Says
February 6, 2007
• BOC Could Open Merchant Market for Remote Deposit Capture
February 5, 2007
• NACHA Announces Two New Fees to Recoup Administrative Costs
February 2, 2007
• ACH and Check Image Convergence—A Bridge Too Far
January 31, 2007
• Data Security Vendors Unite for Voice in PCI Implementation
January 30, 2007
• Check-ACH Coalition Gives up on Ambitious Plan for Check Processing
• Microsoft: Any Micropayments System Is Highly Theoretical
January 29, 2007
• Security Issues Are Eroding Trust in Online Banking, Survey Shows
• Under Fire, TJX Defends Its Handling of Card Data Breach
January 25, 2007
• The Disruptive Shift to Pay-As-You-Go Payments And Lifestyles
• Acquiring Operation Helps Boost Results at a Restructured First Data
January 24, 2007
• PayPal’s off-eBay Push Hits a Wall After Months of Steady Progress
January 23, 2007
• Wells’s New Imaging ATMs May Signal More to Come for the Technology
January 22, 2007
• Latest Breach May Force a New Approach to Data Security
• Bitpass Shuts Down in Move That May Show Limits of Digital Market
January 18, 2007
• Cost Cutting Helps TSYS Boost Profits After a Tough Year
• In Its Latest Offer for Checkout, Google Entices New Users With Bonus
January 17, 2007
• Online Fraudsters Continue to Churn out Multiple Phishing Sites
• The Corrosive Siege Over Signature-Card Interchange
January 16, 2007
• Detroit Takes Deep Plunge Into Card Acceptance for Parking
• With Microsoft and H-P, First Data Plugs Into PC-Based Payments
January 15, 2007
• DVD Sellers, Others Find PayPal Mobile Spurs Impulse Sales
January 12, 2007
• Visa Hopes Its New Platform Will Speed M-Commerce Trials
January 11, 2007
• Suddenly, Mobile-Banking Race Heats up As More Entrants Elbow in
• Hypercom Aims at PC-Based Payments With Its TPI Software Deal
January 10, 2007
• New Phishing Tool Lets Fraudsters Harvest Data From Legitimate Sites
January 9, 2007
• With Contactless, It’s Faster Payments That Draw Retailers the Most
• Prepaid Health-Care Debit Cards Get a Boost from Wal-Mart
January 8, 2007
• 2006 Stats Confirm Strong Advances Made by Image Exchange
January 5, 2007
• Chase Paymentech Reaps E-Commerce Gains From Holiday Traffic
January 4, 2007
• Early Success at TigerDirect Could Boost SECURE-eBill’s Prospects
January 3, 2007
• Invitations for PayPal’s Virtual Debit Card 'Beta' Top 3 Million Users
January 2, 2007
• CheckFree’s Carreker Deal Brings It Check 21 Technology, Expertise
December 28, 2006
• Canada’s Interac EFT Network Sets Record for Debit Card Transactions
• Merchants Look to Lure Gift Card Recipients As 2006 Wanes
December 27, 2006
• A Suddenly Revived POP Posts Highest E-Check Growth Rate
December 22, 2006
• More Vending Machines, Plus Toll Road, Taking Contactless Payments
December 21, 2006
• MasterCard Targets Unbanked With Prepaid Retailer Network
December 20, 2006
• Image Clearing Jumps Ahead of Substitute Checks for the First Time
December 19, 2006
• Wall Street Discovers a New Darling: Payment Card Networks
• Citi’s New York NFC Pilot First Open Test in U.S. Backed by Major Issuer
December 18, 2006
• How ECHO Fits Into Intuit’s ‘Single Payments Portal’ Strategy
December 15, 2006
• Intuit Offers $142 Million for ECHO To Cap Payments ‘Portal’
December 14, 2006
• PayPal Says Monster Signing Sets Stage for ’07 Site Recruitment
December 13, 2006
• Rebranded, ClickandBuy Adds an E-Wallet And Phone Billing, Eyes P2P
December 12, 2006
• Spoofed Sites Proliferate As Phishers Seek To Foil Toolbars, Other Filters
• Visa Announces PCI Compliance Carrots to Go Along With Sticks
December 11, 2006
• SMS Aside, Consumers Pan M-Commerce Data Plans on Price
December 8, 2006
• Canadian Test in 2007 Foreshadows a National Chip Rollout
December 7, 2006
• Co-Op Readies a Credit-Union Entry Into ATM Check Imaging
December 6, 2006
• Seeking More Capacity, AmEx Turns to eFunds for Prepaid Processing
• Can Twelve More Months of Free Processing Make Checkout Click?
December 5, 2006
• Heartland Seeks Banks for ‘Holistic’ Card for Small-Ticket Market
December 3, 2006
• DataTreasury Vows USPTO Rejection Won’t Affect Pending Cases
November 30, 2006
• Remote Capture May Get a Boost From Intuit’s Digital Insight Deal
November 29, 2006
• Discover Moves Closer to Contactless, But Stays Mum on Plans
• Visa Champions Fed Proposal on Receipts for Small-Ticket Transactions
November 27, 2006
• Moneris Restores Service After ‘Glitch’ Cuts off POS Traffic in Canada
• Sites Fare Well on Cyber Monday After Mixed Performance Friday
November 26, 2006
• Report: Get Ready for a Sizzling Market for BOC Transactions
November 22, 2006
• U.S. Bank Joins Growing List of Banks Testing Contactless Payment
• TIO Plans To Start Hybrid ATM-Kiosk Deployments by Start of ‘07
November 21, 2006
• MagTek Launches a Company to Pursue Online Authentication
November 20, 2006
• AmEx, Metavante Undergird Cigna System for Medical Payments
• Gift Cards, Web Shopping Will Be Big Winners in Holiday Season
November 16, 2006
• Visa’s Latest Mobile Gambit Tests Info Sent Via Text Messages
• Cingular-Backed M-Payments Service Could Boost Contactless Market
November 15, 2006
• MasterCard And VeriFone Put PayPass in Philadelphia Taxis
November 14, 2006
• Order-Review Efficiency Rises for Online Sellers, But So Does Fraud
• Online Resources Starts to Process Online Gift Card Orders
November 13, 2006
• MODASolutions Joins the Incentive Parade for Online Payments
November 10, 2006
• Visa Admonishes Merchants To Segment Electronic Traffic
• Metavante Pairs Electronic Bill Pay With Prepaid Cards
November 9, 2006
• Pricing, Retailing Rivalry Likely Led to Sam’s Club’s MasterCard Deal
November 8, 2006
• All-Electronic Check Clearing Keeps Rising As Image Exchange Grows
November 7, 2006
• M-Commerce Execs Further Dim Prospects for Premium SMS
November 6, 2006
• PayPal to Launch Promotion for Express Checkout Merchants
November 3, 2006
• A Processor Puts a Different Spin on Back-Office Conversion
November 2, 2006
• MasterCard Starts Test in Dallas of NFC Payment With OTA Downloads
November 1, 2006
• Debit Traffic Soars at MasterCard While Ticket Sizes Drop
October 31, 2006
• Interchange Second Only to Energy Costs on Grocers’ Worry List
October 30, 2006
• Banks’ ATM Surcharges Hit New Record, As Do NSF Fees
• Check-ACH Coalition Issuing Survey to Help Shape Emerging Proposal
October 27, 2006
• Online Resources Gets Princeton eCom Boost, Points to New Products
October 26, 2006
• Comdata’s New Chief Looks to Acquisitions To Spur Growth
October 25, 2006
• August’s Dog Days Brought Some Relief in Phishing Onslaught
• PayPal’s off-eBay Campaign Begins to Register in Its Numbers
October 24, 2006
• FDC Spiffs up Merchant Service, Deploys 11,000 FD-100 Terminals
October 23, 2006
• First Data Hopes New Box Will Help It Plug Into Smaller Merchants
October 20, 2006
• Rewards Account for 44% of Interchange Cost, Report Concludes
October 19, 2006
• Operator Deals, NFC Could Help Obopay Stand out in Crowded Field
October 18, 2006
• Yodlee Aims at Big Adoption for M-Banking, M-Payment Service
• TSYS Battered But Not Broken, Top Execs Say, Citing New Business
October 17, 2006
• Visa: Too Early to Tell How Restructuring Will Impact Interchange
October 16, 2006
• Content Sales Surge for Qpass As Games, Video Push up Tickets
October 13, 2006
• CheckFree Leverages Existing POS Gear for Walk-in Bill Payments
October 11, 2006
• Market Forces, Including Interchange Cases, Spur Visa to Plan for IPO
• E-Retailers’ Appetite for Payments Hikes PayPal, Checkout Acceptance
October 10, 2006
• Debitman Beefs up Issuer Ranks With Wawa, Promises More to Come
October 9, 2006
• TrueMe ID Is a Precursor to Online Payments, Pay By Touch Says
• As Image Exchange Traffic Climbs, More Banks Clear Image Files
October 6, 2006
• No Single Strategy Will Unlock the Pint-Size Payments Market
October 5, 2006
• Ex-Global Payments Exec Cohen Seeks New Growth Channels at Moneris
• For Now, NFC Payment Hindered by Skeptical Carriers, Expert Says
October 4, 2006
• MasterCard Unveils Network-Level, Real-Time PIN-Fraud Scoring
October 3, 2006
• Impact of Online-Gaming Law Seen As Mixed for Processors, Banks
October 2, 2006
• Eye on ATMs: Pass Code Hacker Fallout, Chase Network Expansion
September 29, 2006
• It’s One Step Ahead, One Back for Visa at Dollar General, University
September 28, 2006
• New Registry of Security Marks Aims at Thwarting Check-Image Fraud
September 27, 2006
• New Boss of Comdata Acquiring Unit Aims to Move into Top 10
• New Super Switch Lets Visa Handle Transaction Growth, Diversity
September 26, 2006
• Bitpass’s New Platform Supports Downloads, Gives Sellers More Data
September 25, 2006
• Tab for E-Commerce Glitches Could Be $60 Billion by 2010
September 22, 2006
• Payments Group Plans to Ride Wave Made by New Microsoft OS
September 21, 2006
• After Some Delay, Check Imaging at ATMs Is Serious Business
• New Program Links Any Credit, Debit Card to Funds in FSA Accounts
September 20, 2006
• IRDs Rising, But Image Clearing Is Going up Much Faster, Stats Show
September 19, 2006
• Yodlee Heats up Bill-Pay Rivalry with Product That Eases Switching
September 18, 2006
• Discover Completes Acquiring Hat Trick, More Processors in Wings
September 15, 2006
• Iron Triangle Vaults Acquiring Ranks with Deal to Buy BA ISO Unit
September 13, 2006
• Stuck in a Rut, POP E-Checks Get a Boost from Bentonville
September 12, 2006
• Study Says ATM Deployers Are Changing Tactics As Profits Fall
• July Phishing Numbers Bring Mixed News on the Online Fraud
September 11, 2006
• The New PCI Council: Does It Have Enough Teeth?
• Discover Signs up Global Payments, Is Talking to Other Top 10 Acquirers
September 8, 2006
• Positive Results of Atlanta NFC Pilot Could Spur More U.S. Tests
September 7, 2006
• Valista Sees New Hosted Gateway As Key to U.S. M-Payments Market
• New Council Updates PCI, Looks to Foster Closer Industry Cooperation
September 5, 2006
• BankServ Enters P2P, Mobile Payments Business with Magex Deal
• MasterCard Will Post Interchange Rates, Cap Fees for Gas Retailers
September 4, 2006
• Will Old Risk to Credit Cards Threaten New ACH Web Proposal?
September 1, 2006
• VeriFone Banks on a Looming Upgrade Market in the U.S. And Canada
• Study Warns of Contactless, Other Rising Risks for Top Acquirers
August 31, 2006
• More Than Six Months Out, the Buzz Builds for BOC
August 30, 2006
• Issuers Win And Lose As the Fed Puts Reg E’s Stamp on Payroll Cards
August 29, 2006
• Terminal-Based PIN Fraud in Canada Spreads to Toronto
• Wary or Not, Phishing Continued Its Rapid Ascent in June
August 25, 2006
• Cutting Payment Costs, Wesco Helps Debitman with Issuer Gap
August 24, 2006
• Visa Data Show Increasing Penetration of Sub-$25 Market
• My Payment Network Looks for Growth from Resellers, New Clients
August 23, 2006
• PNC Joins Small But Growing Bank Trend Toward Free ATM Usage
• Discover Scores U.S. JCB Transactions in Latest Deal to Open Network
August 21, 2006
• PayPal Exec Says eBay Ban Against Google Checkout Is ‘Overplayed’
August 18, 2006
• Applying Casino Lessons, Infonox Pushes Savvier ATMs for Banks
August 17, 2006
• iPayment Logs Low Volume Growth, Though Gas Prices Help
• Barnes & Noble Signing Helps Drive PayPal’s Off-eBay Push
August 16, 2006
• Eyeing Gift-Card Popularity, the OCC Issues Disclosure Rules
• FFIEC Clarifies Authentication Guidance, Gets Tough on Deadline
August 14, 2006
• Processors Begin to Respond to Real-Time Bill-Payment Trend
August 11, 2006
• Discover’s Embrace of ViVOtech Hints at Bigger Contactless Plans
August 10, 2006
• Online Retailers Get More Precise IP Geolocation Service to Battle Fraud
August 9, 2006
• SVPCO Gains More Critical Mass As PNC Joins Image-Exchange System
• MasterCard Launches Real-Time Substantiation for Health-Benefit Cards
August 7, 2006
• Real Tones Dominate Ring Tone Sales, While Ringback Tone Sales Rise
August 6, 2006
• Monthly IRDs Surpass 100 Million, But Electronic Settlement Gains Share
August 3, 2006
• Shut out of New Markets, PIN Debit Faces Big Growth Challenges
August 2, 2006
• MasterCard, Post IPO, Swings to a Loss on Extraordinary Items
• AmEx Cuts Costs But Boosts Marketing with Web Efforts
August 1, 2006
• POS Debit Card Usage Continues To Grow, Star Survey Says
July 31, 2006
• Prepaid Card Roundup: New Virgin Mobile Card, U. S. Bank Hits Milestone
July 28, 2006
• Key MasterCard Deadline Nears for Wireless and IP Terminal Security
July 27, 2006
• Now Hot, Remote Capture Will Get Hotter with Move ‘Down Market’
• Adding Princeton eCom Boosts Expedited Payment Plans at ORC
July 26, 2006
• Most Breaches Occur at Card-Present Merchants, Auditor Data Show
July 25, 2006
• First Data Takes Over Banco Popular’s Mainland Merchant File
July 24, 2006
• Quarterly Processor Roundup: PayPal, Chase Paymentech, TSYS
July 19, 2006
• SMS Will Slip to Minority of M-Payments by 2011, Survey Says
• Big POS Merchants Now Face Stricter PCI Validation Rules
• Partisans Square off Again As the Interchange War Moves to the Senate
• First Data Readies an ISO Thrust with Unified Pricing, New Terminal
July 18, 2006
• Discover Scores Exclusive Deal with Fast-Growing Dollar Tree Chain
July 17, 2006
• Peppercoin Pursues Opportunity in Contactless, Vending
July 14, 2006
• Discover’s First Data Deal May Be Just Its First Pact with Big Acquirers
July 13, 2006
• Google Wins Points with Retailers, But Consumer Reaction Unclear
July 12, 2006
• Instant Issuance Builds Momentum, Looks to RFID, Prepaid, Credit
• Seeing Incident ‘Uptick,’ Visa Issues Security Alert to Small Restaurants
• 41st Parameter Casts a Wider Net for Its Anti-Fraud Technology
July 11, 2006
• Image Volume Mounts Steadily for SVPCO As It Courts Smaller Banks
July 10, 2006
• Unfazed by eBay’s Ban, Google Eyes PayPal, Other Payment Methods
July 7, 2006
• PCI Expert Cautiously Optimistic As Compliance Rate Looks to Climb
July 6, 2006
• Swapped PIN-Pad Fraud Pops up in Ottawa, Netting $2 Million
• How EMC Counts on Mounting Demand for RSA’s Security Products
July 5, 2006
• First Biometric Fob for RFID Payment Could Be in Pilot by Year’s End
• End of First Data Net Saga Sets up FDC To Get Payments from Visa
July 3, 2006
• PayPal Prepares for a Two-Phase Rollout of Its Virtual Debit Card
June 29, 2006
• Google's Payment Service, Tied to AdWords, Could Be 'Game-Changer'
June 28, 2006
• Survey: Online Payment Alternatives Could Tap $14 Billion in Missed Sales
• Pressure Builds in Congress To Address Data-Security Breaches
• Will 1,000 Philly Coke Machines Usher Contactless into Vending?
June 27, 2006
• Yodlee Takes Its Web-Based Approach Beyond Online Bill Payment
June 26, 2006
• Visa, U.S. Chamber Launch Multi-City Data-Security Tour
June 22, 2006
• Wachovia Exposes Latest Card Fraud, But More Banks Likely Ensnared
June 21, 2006
• Chase Adds Contactless Technology to 1.8 Million Visa Debit Cards
• Tech-Savvy Scheme Loots Millions from Montreal Debit Accounts
• With New Web Service, Xoom Targets the Giants of Money Transfer
June 20, 2006
• Observers Split over How Much Google Will Compete with PayPal
June 19, 2006
• An Online Boom: Phishing Numbers Hit New Highs in May
June 16, 2006
• Networks Begin to Make a Case for Cards at Vending Machines
June 15, 2006
• Retailers Say, ‘Show Us the Fines' on PCI, E-Commerce Exec Says
June 14, 2006
• Verizon Looks to POS System to Cope with Rising Walk-in Payments
• BidPay Re-launches with New Pricing, Chargeback Policy
June 13, 2006
• E-Retailers’ Order-Review Logjams Create a New Software Market
June 12, 2006
• Banks Should Pick up the Phone for Bill Payments, Experts Assert
June 9, 2006
• Alternative Payments Are Gaining Online, But Not All Retailers Are Sold
June 8, 2006
• ISOs And NFC Specs Lend Impetus to Contactless Payment Trend
June 7, 2006
• Growth Spurt Has SVPCO Eyeing 100 Million Monthly Items by Year’s End
• A Busy ATM Direct Looks to Add Another Network, More Online Retailers
June 6, 2006
• CyberSource Bids to Relieve Online Retailers’ PCI Headaches
June 5, 2006
• ATM Direct Scores First EFT Network for Web-Based PIN Debit
June 2, 2006
• Swiped Laptops Now a Threat in Data Breaches Plaguing Payments
June 1, 2006
• How Endpoint Exchange Is Riding the Rising Image-Exchange Wave
May 31, 2006
• The Fed Unveils More Check Closures As Volumes Continue to Drop
• Report: M-Gaming Will Top $3 Billion in North America by 2011
May 30, 2006
• Yahoo!’s New Pact with eBay Promises More Payments for PayPal
• National City Begins Selling ‘Non-Personalized’ Visa Travel Card
May 26, 2006
• An ACH-Image Proposal for Checks Roils Banks And Networks
May 25, 2006
• Phishing Takes Another Sharp Turn in the Wrong Direction As Sites Soar
May 23, 2006
• MobileLime Recruits First ISO in Effort to Sell Merchants Nationally
• Debitman’s HSBC Deal Could Help It Corral More Merchant Issuers
• Merchants Hit MasterCard IPO on Anticompetitive Grounds
May 22, 2006
• Valista Gears New Software Release to M-Payments Trends
May 19, 2006
• A Boom Is Building in FSA Debit Cards, But Challenges Remain
May 18, 2006
• Tiny LendingTools.com Has Big Ambitions for National Image Exchange
• Online Bill Payments Show Big Gains, But Some Fret over Security
May 17, 2006
• Wal-Mart Claims Its Bank Could Stop Transactions for PCI Non-Compliance
May 16, 2006
• Newly Private iPayment Logs Profit Jump, Points to CardSystems Fallout
May 15, 2006
• ECOM Finds Issuer for Anonymous, Disposable Prepaid MasterCard
May 12, 2006
• Small Banks Adopt a Wide Spectrum of Electronic Payments
• Home Depot: No Designs on Payments with Deal to Buy ILC
May 11, 2006
• Key Issues Nag NACHA As It Nears Internet Payments Pilot
May 10, 2006
• NACHA Chairman Looks to Retry NREF, Will Push Internet Payments
• Image Volume Ramp-up in ’06 Beats SVPCO’s Own Projections
• ORC Chief Says Princeton eCom Play Will Help Build Scale
May 8, 2006
• NACHA Approves Back Office Conversion of Point-of-Sale Checks
May 5, 2006
• Patent in Hand, Yahoo! Moves Toward a P2P Payments Product
May 4, 2006
• Heartland Drives up Net with Expanded Merchant Base, Card Volume
May 3, 2006
• In Wake of Big PIN Breach, Visa Tightens Debit-Fraud Controls
May 2, 2006
• Survey: Youth Market Not Sold on Mobile Payments, After All
• As Its IPO Awaits, MasterCard Logs Strong Results, Names Directors
May 1, 2006
• Eye on RFID: Utah Transit, Arby’s Plan for Contactless Payment
April 27, 2006
• MX Telecom Looks for Rapid Growth in SMS-Based Mobile Payments
April 26, 2006
• Phishing Hits Record Levels As Malware, Redirectors Proliferate
• A BankAmericard Redux Poses Risks But Could Reap Rewards for BofA
April 25, 2006
• PCI’s POS Costs Slow Retailer Adoption, Terminal Exec Says
April 24, 2006
• AmEx Discount Revenues Grow, but Rate Continues To Slip
• First National Merchant Solutions Shifts Toward ISOs for Growth
April 20, 2006
• PayPal Racks up Double-Digit Growth, But Still Relies Heavily on eBay
• First Data’s Profit Dips, Though Merchant-Unit Results Climb 24%
April 19, 2006
• ATM Surcharges, Number of Banks Assessing Them, Rise Again
• TSYS CEO Says Processor Will Build on Ties to Defecting Clients
• Coghlan Tells ISOs Visa Will Be More ‘Flexible’ and ‘Responsive’
April 18, 2006
• Eye on Acquiring: TSYS Rechristens Vital; VeriFone-RBS Lynk Deal
• Biller Sites Dominate Online Bill Pay, But Bank-Site Users Pay More Bills
April 14, 2006
• Workers with Bank Accounts Help Drive Payroll Card Growth
April 13, 2006
• No Visa Incentive Just for Contactless, But One May No Longer Be Needed
April 12, 2006
• ViVOtech Boss Predicts NFC Will Soon Enable Payments for E-Retailers
April 11, 2006
• NACHA’s Web Payment Pilot to Start by Early ’07, Run 12 Months
April 10, 2006
• Debitman’s New CEO Stresses More Merchants, Issuers, And Products
• VeriFone Gains Wireless-Terminal Strength with Lipman Acquisition
April 7, 2006
• FastLane Launches Its POS Advertising Program with a $2 Million Deal
April 6, 2006
• PayPal Mobile Launches with Five Merchants, More in ‘Pipleline’
• Looking to Mass NFC Usage, MasterCard Tries Over-the-Air Downloads
April 5, 2006
• New Merchants Will Fuel Contactless Growth, But Trouble Lurks
• SVPCO Swaps More Images in First Quarter Than in All of 2005
April 4, 2006
• Citigroup Will Brand 5,500 7-Eleven ATMs in Surcharge-Free Deal
March 30, 2006
• Seven Are Nabbed in Big PIN Hack Case, with More Arrests Coming
March 29, 2006
• Mobile-Video Demand Mounting Fast, But Right Pricing Model Is Elusive
March 28, 2006
• ATM Roundup: BofA's New Mall Machines; Triton Shipments up 21%
March 27, 2006
• Phishing Blasts, Web Sites Soar at Double-Digit Rates in January
• Report: Remote Deposit Capture Is More ‘Talk’ Than ‘Action’ for Now
March 24, 2006
• P2P Market Is Nice, But PayPal Mobile May Have to Reach Merchants
• Discover Claims Retailer-Friendly Debit, But Details Remain Murky
March 22, 2006
• Pay By Touch Looks for ‘Network Effect’ from Chicago Concentration
• Fujitsu Does Damage Control While Utility Software Gains Attention
March 21, 2006
• More Aussie Retailers Plan Surcharges for Credit Card Payments
March 20, 2006
• NACHA’s New Web Product Could Unleash Strong Bank Competition
March 17, 2006
• First Data’s Bailis Ponders His Strategy for Debit Cards, Services
March 16, 2006
• Huge Hack Threatens to Cool off Torrid Growth of PIN Debit Payments
• Consumers Put Cap on What They’ll Pay for Wireless Song Downloads
March 15, 2006
• NACHA Starts Drive to Sign up Participants for Web-Payment Pilot
March 14, 2006
• Back-Office Conversion To Get a Vote Soon, May Start in September
March 13, 2006
• Losses Could Top $1 Billion from Debit Card Hack, Hurting PIN Debit
March 10, 2006
• Google Could Be Weeks Away from Launching a PayPal-Like Service
March 9, 2006
• A New Tactic Aims at Thwarting Efforts to Shut Down Phishing Sites
March 8, 2006
• Nokia Pilots Indicate User Willingness to Pay for Mobile TV Channels
• As Banks Reissue Debit Cards, Experts Warn of More Compromises
March 7, 2006
• SVPCO Hits 1 Million Mark in Average Daily Items for Image Exchange
March 6, 2006
• Chase Rolls out a Prepaid Visa for Low-Income Tax-Refund Recipients
March 3, 2006
• Single-App Terminals Help Drive Financial Results for VeriFone
March 2, 2006
• U.S. Encode Readies a CD/Mag-Stripe Card for Online, POS Use
• Why Info Touch Sees Benefits in 40-ATM Pilot with Cardtronics
March 1, 2006
• Survey Shows Sizable Opportunity for EBPP in P&C Insurance
February 28, 2006
• Google’s Payments Moves Excite Comment, But May Not Threaten PayPal
February 27, 2006
• How Interchange Wars Are Lending Impetus to Instant Issuance
February 24, 2006
• Early Signs Look Good for Back-Office Conversion in NACHA Comments
February 23, 2006
• The FTC Puts One Security Compromise to Rest, But More Await
February 22, 2006
• Metavante Appoints New Health-Payments Chief, Looks for Big Growth
• MobileLime Announces A New NFC Platform for Cell-Phone Payments
• Cardtronics Reports Lower Net in Part on Faster Retail Deployment
February 20, 2006
• Report: Transaction Kiosks Will More Than Double by 2009
February 17, 2006
• Small-Bank Demand for Remote Capture Leads to New Hosted Service
February 16, 2006
• Inconsistency Threatens Contactless-Payment Rollouts, Expert Warns
February 15, 2006
• Interchange Caps Not Wanted, C-Stores Chief Tells Congress
February 14, 2006
• December Brought No Holiday Cheer to Those Fretting over Phishing
February 13, 2006
• Discover Unveils a Signature Debit Card, Though No Issuers Yet
• Heartland Buys Debitek, Pushes Deeper into Small-Value Payments
February 10, 2006
• Could Merchants Use POS Readers, M-Wallet to Skirt Interchange?
February 9, 2006
• Motorola Looks to Start Commercial M-Wallet Service by Summer
• SVPCO: Costly IRDs Are Now Just 20% of Image-Exchange Volume
February 8, 2006
• A Processing Exec Outlines Practical Steps to Save on Interchange
February 7, 2006
• SVPCO Reports Another Month of Steady Build in Image Volume
February 6, 2006
• Pay By Touch Enters the Race to Offer Payments to Web Merchants
February 3, 2006
• Retailers’ Interchange Suits May Help AmEx More Than Merchants
February 2, 2006
• Interchange Cases To Yield Consolidated Complaint in 60 Days
February 1, 2006
• Top Exec at the New Chase Paymentech Sees Smooth Transition
January 31, 2006
• Seeking More Issuers, Debitman Finds Two Among the Supermarkets
• Citi Will Issue Contactless Tokens for N.Y. Mass Transit Test This Spring
• SMS-Based Promotions Fuel Grocer’s Interest in Cell-Phone Payments
January 27, 2006
• SECURE-eBill Starts to See U.S. Merchant and Consumer Adoption
January 26, 2006
• Investors Smile on First Data’s New Look, Western Union Spin-Off
• Click&Buy Will Expand Online Payment Options to Phone Bills April 1
January 25, 2006
• Rapid Growth Puts Acquiring at 25% of Sales for Gateway CyberSource
January 23, 2006
• Mobile Processor Qpass Vaults $1 Billion in Premium Content Sales
• Settlement with NCR Positions DataTreasury to Move into ACH and Cards
January 19, 2006
• PayPal Ends ’05 with a 40% Jump in Traffic As Accounts Boom
• With Some Network Help, ShopNBC Cuts Its Prepaid Card Losses
January 18, 2006
• A Startup Readies a Payments Network Based on Driver’s Licenses
• TSYS CEO Upbeat Despite Pending Loss of BofA Consumer Accounts
• With GE Consumer Finance, AmEx Claims Seven Bank Card Issuers
January 16, 2006
• Phishing Trends Take an Ominous Turn As Malware Incidents Rise
January 13, 2006
• Accelitec Lays Technical Groundwork for PayPilot Expansion in ‘06
January 12, 2006
• Online Merchants, Issuers Begin to Respond to SecureCode Incentives
• In an Ironic Twist, Free Terminals Could Hike Payment Software Sales
January 11, 2006
• Online Banking Falls Short in Identity Fraud Prevention, Study Shows
January 10, 2006
• SVPCO Closes First Year of Image Exchange with 52 Million Items
January 9, 2006
• Accounting-Software Firm Sage Buys ISO Verus for $325 Million
January 6, 2006
• ATM King Cardtronics Sees Further Expansion Via Bank Deals in ‘06
• Could Labry Move to Merchant Unit Presage a Breakup of First Data?
January 5, 2006
• BitPass Expands Micropayment Functions with Yaga Acquisition
January 4, 2006
• Visa Reports $257 Billion for ’05 Holiday Season, with a Dec. 23 Peak
January 3, 2006
• Nearly Three Years Later, Merchants Begin to Get Wal-Mart Payouts
December 28, 2005
• CEO Daily Succeeds in His Pursuit of Merchant Processor iPayment
December 23, 2005
• Nokia Says Look for New Phone, Busy Stores in '06 NFC Payment Pilots
December 21, 2005
• Holiday Card Spending Ramps up in Stores And on the Internet
• In a Busy Day, BofA Says Yes to AmEx Network And No to TSYS
• TextPayMe Aims Its Nascent Cell-Phone P-to-P Service at Web Markets
December 20, 2005
• Citi Will Begin Issuing Credit Cards on AmEx's Network By Month's End
• Phishing E-mail Volume Sets a New Record After a Summer Swoon
December 16, 2005
• Digital Defense Group Set to Launch a Fingerprint-Secured RFID Card
• ATM Direct Says It Will Test PIN Debit on the Web Next Year
December 14, 2005
• Atlanta NFC Pilot, And Others, Will Lead to Late '06 Commercialization
December 13, 2005
• BitPass's New CEO Hints MSN Deal Could Be Just the Start with Microsoft
December 12, 2005
• Corillian Looks to Sell Banks on Least-Cost Routing for Bill Payments
• Pay By Touch Closes in on 'Biometric Proxy' for PIN in Debit Payments
December 9, 2005
• Velocita, TNS, Pepsi Aim at Profits Via Wireless-Vending Payments
December 8, 2005
• First Integrated Mobile Terminal for E-Check Acceptance Coming Soon
• SVPCO Says 8.8 Million Images Make It No. 1 Private-Sector Network
December 7, 2005
• PassMark: RSA-Cyota Deal Endorses Software-Based Authentication
December 6, 2005
• Feuding Rivals Pay By Touch, BioPay Merge to Spur Biometrics
December 5, 2005
• Survey: Interest in Micropayments Rising Fast Among Consumers
December 2, 2005
• PayPal's Small Bite of Physical Stored Value May Herald Bigger Things
December 1, 2005
• Is the 'Dirty Little Secret' of NSF Revenue Hiking Signature-Debit Profits?
• ATM-Owning Banks Earn $4.3 Billion As Surcharges Hit Record High
November 29, 2005
• Back at First Data's Helm, Duques Faces Major Growth Challenges
November 28, 2005
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