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• Payments-automation specialist linked2pay has added a real-time merchant-onboarding capability to its Bank Centric Payments platform, allowing independent sales organizations and other resellers enrolled with a sponsor bank to register, underwrite, and board merchants for card processing electronically and immediately.
• Mobile-commerce provider Sionic Mobile said it is integrating its ION Commerce Engine for mobile loyalty and payments with the SmartOffers platform of loyalty firm RevTrax, allowing merchants and consumer packaged goods companies to offer digital coupons along with instant rewards with each mobile payment.
• Inside Secure announced the release of Core for Android, a security technology that protects consumer data used on Android devices for mobile transactions.
• Delerrok Inc. launched TouchPass, a cloud-based electronic fare-collection service.
• Ingenico Group said its Ingenico ePayments online and mobile commerce division added Discover card payments originating in North America for Air China.
• Petroleum Card Services, a payment processor for independent petroleum and convenience stores, named Pete Embs vice president and business unit head. Embs comes to the company from merchant processor iPayment, which owns Petroleum Card Services, and is a veteran executive with processor WorldPay.
