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• Office-supply giant Staples Inc. has begun accepting Apple Pay on its mobile Web site, m.staples.com. Staples early on began accepting Apple Inc.’s mobile wallet in its stores and on its app. Apple recently made the service available for browser-based payments using Safari.
• More than half of consumers believe mobile payments are less safe than cash, yet almost 60% of mobile-payments executives say mobile payments will build their businesses because the services are safe. The disconnect was found in an NTT Data survey of 2,000 consumers and 300 companies globally and released Thursday.
• Wire-transfer provider MoneyGram International Inc. is waiving all transaction fees for donations to the American Red Cross for disaster relief related to Hurricane Matthew. The waiver applies to all donations up to $249.99 between now and Oct. 31.
• Yardi Sytems Inc., a developer of property-management software, has added a bill-pay feature to its payment-processing product.
• West Virginia Wesleyan College has chosen ACI Worldwide Inc. to process tuition payments.
• Processor First Data Corp. announced it and Bypass Mobile LLC are providing Clover point-of-sale devices at CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks football team.
• Gift card services provider Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. has closed on its acquisition of Grass Roots Group Holdings Ltd., a provider of employee and customer incentive programs. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was first announced in August.
• ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf named two men as co-chief technology officers: Ashvin Mathew, who comes to the company from Microsoft Corp., and Reinhard Rubenstein, who has worked for Wincor Nixdorf and predecessor companies.
• Merchant processor Chosen Payments has become the official affinity program processing company for the National Limousine Association.
