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August, 2011
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16 August
In Buying Access to Money, Cardtronics Will Get Access to 10,350 More ATMs
Capping a wave of recent acquisitions, non-bank ATM network owner and manager Cardtronics Inc. announced late Monday that it had struck a definitive agreement to buy Access to Money Inc., a retail ATM network operator with 10,350 U.S. machines under management. Houston-based Cardtronics will pay $21.2 million in cash …
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15 August
ADA Rules, Skimming, And Windows Conversion Are Top ATM Priorities, Study Shows
Bank ATM managers have slain one dragon, a transition to better data protection with the widespread rollout of the Triple Digital Encryption Standard. Some 99% of ATMs now use Triple DES, according to Aite Group LLC. But according to new survey results, ATM managers are still fighting several others, …
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15 August
By Going Directly to S1’s Shareholders, ACI Hopes to Scuttle Fundtech Deal
ACI Worldwide Inc.’s effort to acquire rival payments-software firm S1 Corp. took a more hostile turn on Monday when ACI said it will go directly to S1’s shareholders, asking them to scuttle a proposed merger between S1 and Fundtech Ltd. The move by Elkhorn, Neb.-based ACI, spelled out in …
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15 August
How a Google-Motorola Combo Could Be ‘Good News’for NFC in the U.S.
At first glance, the nascent mobile-payments business doesn’t seem to be the major driver of Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion cash acquisition of cell-phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. The deal, however, could spur payments using near-field communications (NFC) technology as software companies, phone manufacturers, and mobile-communications software companies jockey for …
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11 August
Volatile Markets Hammer Payments Stocks, But Prepaid Players Most of All
The wild trading on stock markets worldwide over the past week has left U.S. payments-industry shares battered and bruised, though they made a mild recovery Thursday morning. Worst hit are shares of prepaid card companies, though networks, processors, and money-transfer providers are feeling the pain too. A Digital Transactions …
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11 August
A Technical Glitch Short-Changes Developers Selling Apps on Android Market
A technical gremlin has caused thousands of developers to be short-changed on payments they are due for applications they sell through Google Inc.’s online Android Market. The glitch, which developed some time in July, has created a mismatch between customers’ orders on Google Checkout, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Web …
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11 August
Just As NFC Gains Impetus, An Analyst Casts Doubt on Supply of Phones
With companies like Google Inc., Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., and the major wireless carriers talking in recent months about near-field communication projects, observers could be forgiven for concluding that NFC-based mobile payments are poised for a breakthrough in the U.S. market. There could be just one problem: no NFC …
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9 August
A New Alphabet Soup, VARs and ISVs, Spells An Effective, But Expensive, Channel for Acquiring
Merchant acquirers once relied on independent agents, direct sales, and agent bank relationships to sign up merchants. Now, a new group has entered the picture and is accounting for a rapidly increasing share of new merchant accounts. Value-added resellers and independent software vendors will enroll 15% of all new …
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9 August
Visa Tries To Juice EMV And Mobile Payments with New Initiatives
Leading payment card network Visa Inc. on Tuesday announced three initiatives to spur adoption of so-called EMV contact and contactless chip cards and near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments in the U.S. Observers hailed Visa’s action, but noted that a full move to EMV and NFC mobile payments in the U.S. …