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May, 2013

  • 29 May

    Head of Nascent Chase Merchant Services Sees Opportunity, Keeps Mum About Specifics

      The fledgling Chase Merchant Services operation may now have a boss, but that doesn’t mean the considerable industry curiosity about the JPMorgan Chase & Co. payments unit is going to be quenched any time soon. Chase officials, beginning with newly appointed CMS chief executive Mike Passilla, are playing it …

  • 29 May

    Court’s Critique Sparks NetSpend To Mull New Offers As Alternatives to TSYS Bid

    Prepaid card program manager NetSpend Holdings Inc. on Wednesday said it will postpone until June 18 the shareholder meeting it planned for Friday to approve its $1.4 billion sale to processor Total System Services Inc. (TSYS). The delay is an attempt in the wake of two shareholder lawsuits to create …

  • 28 May

    Eye on Acquiring: IP Commerce To Stop Processing; Passilla at Chase; Groupon And SumUp

      IP Commerce Inc., a 9-year-old Denver-based company that provides platforms for independent software vendors (ISVs) and other payments developers, will discontinue its front-end payment-processing service effective June 30, according to a notice on the home page of the company’s Web site. The company began notifying clients earlier this month, …

  • 28 May

    Visa, MasterCard File Suit As Credit Card Settlement Spawns More Litigation

      World War I was supposed to be the war that ended all wars. It didn’t, of course. And the settlement announced last July that was supposed to end lawsuits over bank card interchange and related network rules not only is failing to end litigation between merchants and the card …

  • 23 May

    Citing Fraud Risk, the FTC Seeks to Bar Telemarketers from Using Four Payment Methods

      If the Federal Trade Commission has its way, all telemarketers will be banned from using remotely created checks and three other payment methods in any transaction. The sweeping ban, which the FTC posted this week in a proposed rulemaking, would also prohibit telemarketers from collecting payment via remotely created …

  • 22 May

    A New Mercedes-Benz App Enables Loan Payments on Mobile Devices with Wheels

      n The purpose of the new “My MBFS” app is to increase customer convenience and continue Mercedes-Benz’s leadership in applying mobile-commerce technology to automobiles, Matt Darrah, manager of B2C digital marketing at Mercedes-Benz n “At Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, we have had this mobile journey, we saw mobile coming in …

  • 22 May

    How Mobile Check Capture Is Taking a Toll on Banks’ Branch Networks

    The primary reason consumers and small-business owners visit banks is to cash or deposit checks, but mobile capture removes that purpose, says Gary Brand, director of source capture optimization at Fiserv Inc., a Brookfield, Wis.-based vendor of processing technology for financial institutions. “Something’s really happened, all of a sudden [banks …

  • 22 May

    As a Key Deadline Nears, Credit Card Interchange Settlement Inspires a Raft of Rhetoric

      The rhetoric spewing from partisans on both sides of the massive credit card interchange-litigation settlement is heating up as a major deadline in the 8-year-old case approaches. May 28 is the last day the court overseeing the case will let merchants opt out of their share of monetary damages …

  • 21 May

    LevelUp Sweetens a Merchant’s Loyalty Program And Adds NCR As a Point-of-Sale Partner

    A plan to expand its footprint in mobile payments by offering white-label applications to merchants is quickly paying dividends for LevelUp, the mobile-payments unit of Boston-based SCVNGR Inc. Washington D.C.-based Sweetgreen, a 17-location chain of organic salad shops, has become the first LevelUp merchant to roll out a branded mobile-payment …

  • 21 May

    Google Checkout, Once a PayPal Rival, Will Shut Down in Six Months As Google Pushes Wallet

      The nearly 7-year-old Google Checkout online payment service, once touted as a rival to PayPal, will cease operations in November, Google Inc. announced in a blog post on Monday. In the post, online-search kingpin Google Inc. says it is “retiring” Checkout as part of a “transition to Google Wallet,” …

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