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Cynergy Is an Example of Economic Stresses on ISOs, Experts Say

Tuesday's news that Cynergy Data was filing for bankruptcy and planning to sell its assets serves as perhaps an extreme example of the fierce toll the recession is taking on independent sales organizations, observers say. Indeed, some say the ravages of reduced payment volumes, failed merchants, and squeezed margins could …

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Debt, Accounting Issues, Recession Led Cynergy Data to Bankruptcy

With $83 million in debt added since 2007, accounting errors, and finally the recession, the big independent sales organization Cynergy Data LLC concluded late this summer that it needed bankruptcy-court protection, according to an emerging picture of the company as it seeks to sell its assets to a private-equity firm. …

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Citing Debt Load, Cynergy Data Declares Bankruptcy And Seeks Sale

Citing the weak economy and “an unsustainable debt load,” the big independent sales organization Cynergy Data filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The Long Island City, N.Y.-based processor also said it planned to sell its assets to The ComVest Group, a private-equity firm with …

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Visa Follows MasterCard in Prepaying Its ‘Wal-Mart’ Obligations

As an attorney for the merchant plaintiffs predicted earlier this summer, Visa Inc. disclosed Monday that it plans to prepay the remaining $800 million of its settlement obligations with merchants under the so-called Wal-Mart debit card class action for a discounted $682 million. If the plan gets court approval, the …

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Nokia’s Mobile-Payments Gambit Could Give a Boost to Obopay

The announcement on Wednesday by Nokia, the world's largest cell-phone maker, that it will launch a mobile-payments service is likely to give a competitive leg-up to Obopay Inc., the Redwood City, Calif.-based mobile-payments processor that developed the software for the new venture, called Nokia Money. Four-year-old Obopay, in which Nokia …

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Moneta’s Bank-Centric Strategy Gives It a Lift with Online Retailers

Alternative-payments processor Moneta Corp. this week announced the addition of three online merchants to its roster of clients and next week will sign a major Internet housewares retailer, says Guido F. Sacchi, chief executive of the Atlanta-based company. In all, some 20 merchants will be signed by month's end, he …

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As Reloadable Cards Increase, Concerns Grow About Fees, Protection

The increasing popularity of reloadable prepaid cards, particularly among the unbanked and underbanked, has begun to raise alarms among consumer advocates who view the cards as subject to capricious pricing and lacking important protections offered on bank cards. And, as larger merchant and other enterprises become active in issuing these …

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The PCI Council Offers Guidelines to Fight Skimming Scourge

While much of the credit and debit card industry's attention is focused on new indictments that detail how hackers penetrated the computer systems of big processors and merchants to steal tens of millions of card numbers (Digital Transactions News, Aug. 18), the PCI Security Standards Council is trying to shine …

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New Intuit Payment Service Could Vie for Consumer Transactions

Intuit Inc. has quietly introduced an online-payment product that may be aimed initially at small businesses looking for ways to let other businesses pay them electronically, but could move into consumer payments later on. The new service, called Intuit PaymentNetwork, charges a flat 50 cents per transaction, with no set-up …

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With Walk-in Bill Pay, Wal-Mart Adds More Payments Muscle

It's now official: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has become a major distributor of walk-in electronic bill-payment services. Processor Fiserv Inc. announced that 3,755 U.S. Wal-Mart locations now offer standard and next-day bill payments from Fiserv's CheckFreePay service. The service enables customers to pay 2,500 utility, credit card, phone, insurance, and other …

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