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• Wells Fargo & Co. will introduce cardless withdrawals to all 13,000 of its ATMs after testing the smart-phone-based service in various locales, a bank executive told Reuters. Wells reportedly is the first bank to roll out cardless ATM withdrawals across its entire ATM fleet.
• ATM network operator Cardtronics plc renewed its long-term branding relationship with Canada’s The Bank of Nova Scotia, which provides Scotiabank customers with no-fee cash access at more than 640 Scotiabank-branded ATMs (known in Canada as automated banking machines, or ABMs) at 7-Eleven Canada convenience stores across the country. The renewed agreement includes 130 new 7-Eleven locations in British Columbia and Alberta.
• Payments provider Payline Data Services LLC released a payment application programming interface (API) for payment facilitators as part of its Payline I/O payment facilitation platform for business-to-business companies.
• Processor Vantiv Corp. released a survey that found 70% of the generation born between 1980 and 2000, known as millennials, have a product subscription and 89% of them have a service subscription they pay for.
• Payments provider PaySimple released a virtual terminal it calls Service Point of Sale that includes customer relationship management tools, reporting data, and payments functionality.
• Jumio Inc., whose technology helps verify consumer identities for payments and other functions, said Free2Move, a mobile car-sharing app owned by the French car maker PSA Group, will use its NetVerify product to verify drivers’ licenses.
• Verifi Inc., which provides payment and risk-management services to e-commerce merchants, named Ian Nicholson business-development director for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Nicholson comes to the company from carrier-billing specialist Boku Inc.
• Payments provider RP Solutions Inc. named Cindy McCall as director of marketing, replacing the retiring Barbara Clise.
