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Jim Daly

Jim Daly joined Digital Transactions in 2006 after covering payments and merchant acquiring at Thomson Media’s Credit Card Management, Credit Card News, and CardLine publications. Before that, he was a reporter and editor at the daily Leader-Telegram in Eau Claire, Wis.

Consolidation Marches on As Fifth Third Buys NPC

Another seismic merger rumbled through the merchant-acquiring industry on Wednesday when the big acquirer Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC announced it had struck an agreement to buy Louisville, Ky.-based National Processing Co. When the deal closes, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third will have more than 420,000 merchant locations and annualized charge volume …

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Fast-Growing Green Dot Plans To Do an IPO And Buy a Bank

More than 10 years after its founding, prepaid card reload network and distributor Green Dot Corp. is considering an initial public offering to raise up to $150 million for its next growth phase. The registration statement Monrovia, Calif.-based Green Dot filed last week for the proposed stock offering is a …

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