• Merchant processor Heartland Payment Systems introduced Heartland Insights, a data and analytics service for restaurants that relies on the company’s point-of-sale and e-commerce solutions. Heartland recently became part of rival processor Global Payments Inc.
• Canadian payments provider Beanstream expanded its service to U.S. merchants and integrated partners with the announcement of Beanstream USA.
• Merchant processor JetPay Corp. named Doug Harrison chief operating officer of its HR & Payroll services unit. Harrison comes to the company from NGA Human Resources.
• Fast-casual restaurant chain Noodles & Co. said it is investigating “some unusual activity” reported to it May 16 by its credit card processor; KrebsOnSecurity reported that some financial institutions have seen a pattern of fraud on cards used at Noodles beginning in January.
• CareCloud, a vendor of cloud-based software for medical offices, launched CareCloud Patient Payments, a processing solution that works with CareCloud Central, a practice-management system.
• In a one-day promotion May 20, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is offering its cardholders a free download of Eric Clapton’s new album, I Still Do, on Apple Inc.’s iTunes portal if they have a Chase-issued Visa card registered with Apple Pay.
• CellPoint Mobile, a payments provider to the airline industry, said it now supports Android Pay in the U.S. and United Kingdom.