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Seeking More Issuers, Debitman Finds Two Among the Supermarkets

Debitman Card Inc., which has been seeking issuers for its PIN debit processing network, announced two this week. Binghamton Giant Markets Inc. and HAC Inc., both regional supermarket chains, have agreed to issue cards on Debitman's network. HAC, which runs 67 stores in Oklahoma and Kansas, has begun issuing Debitman …

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Citi Will Issue Contactless Tokens for N.Y. Mass Transit Test This Spring

Citigroup Inc.'s Citibank, which last year announced it would issue contactless tokens linked to customers' credit and debit card accounts in the New York metropolitan area, is now allowing those devices to be used in a test of radio-frequency-based electronic fare payments by the Metropolitan Transit Authority's MTA New York …

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SMS-Based Promotions Fuel Grocer’s Interest in Cell-Phone Payments

Four months after introducing a marketing system that communicates with customers' mobile phones, Broadway Marketplace has had such positive sales results its top executive says the Cambridge, Mass.-based supermarket will add an electronic payment function within the next two months. The store, which last September began using a service called …

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SECURE-eBill Starts to See U.S. Merchant and Consumer Adoption

Eight months after rolling out its Internet payment service in the U.S., Ottawa-based MODASolutions says it is seeing results, both in merchant recruitment and in consumer adoption. The company, whose SECURE-eBill product allows consumers to pay e-commerce merchants in the same way they make electronic bill payments, won't disclose transaction …

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Investors Smile on First Data’s New Look, Western Union Spin-Off

Despite some poor fourth-quarter financials, shares of First Data Corp. rose nearly 7% this morning after the big transaction processor announced plans to spin off its fast-growing and biggest subsidiary, Western Union, to First Data shareholders. Denver-based First Data also ended speculation that it might sell its lackluster Card Issuing …

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Click&Buy Will Expand Online Payment Options to Phone Bills April 1

Webpay Inc.'s Click&Buy payment service, which handles largely digital-content sales, will begin processing transactions on consumers' phone bills April 1. The service will work with two so-far unnamed telecommunications carriers that together cover 55% of U.S. land-line subscribers, says Fabian G. Siegel, president and chief executive of Webpay, which has …

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Rapid Growth Puts Acquiring at 25% of Sales for Gateway CyberSource

CyberSource Corp.'s acquiring business now accounts for fully a quarter of revenue for the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of gateway and fraud-management services for e-commerce merchants, the company announced today. That represents significant growth from a year ago, when the fledgling acquiring business, in which the company offers and supports …

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Mobile Processor Qpass Vaults $1 Billion in Premium Content Sales

Qpass Inc. has announced it is the first processor to reach the $1 billion mark in premium digital content. The Seattle-based company, which produces billing software primarily for mobile carriers, says it hit the milestone Jan. 11 and has now exceeded 400 million paid downloads on its platform. While not …

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Settlement with NCR Positions DataTreasury to Move into ACH and Cards

With its settlement today with NCR Corp., DataTreasury Corp. will be able to tap technology that will allow it to move beyond check processing and into technology supporting automated clearing house and card transactions, the company's lead counsel says. The small Melville, N.Y. technology company, which had sued NCR early …

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PayPal Ends ’05 with a 40% Jump in Traffic As Accounts Boom

Internet payments processor PayPal Inc. saw its transaction volume grow 40% in 2005's fourth quarter over the year-ago period, to 139.7 million transactions, according to figures released yesterday by parent company eBay Inc. The processor's fourth-quarter volume, which included holiday activity, was also up 19% over third-quarter traffic. Dollar volume …

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