- Independent sales organization Bluefin Payment Systems said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the company two patents for data decryption; both patents encompass Bluefin’s Decryptx platform and online P2PE Manager System.
- Terminal maker Ingenico Group announced it has increased by 200% over the past year its integrations with integrated software vendors, acquirers, electronic health record providers, and payment gateways serving the health-care market.
- Ingenico rival VeriFone Systems Inc. said it will work with U.K.-based accounting-software vendor Sage Group plc to offer point-of-sale and accounting solutions to European merchants using VeriFone’s Carbon 8 platform.
- Terminal maker Equinox Payments announced merchant processor Merchant e-Solutions has agreed to support its Apollo device.
- In an apparent effort to test its prospects as a consumer lender, merchant processor Square Inc. will provide loans to customers of its small-business clients in six states beginning this week, The Wall Street Journal reported.
- Co-Op Financial Services signed 11 new credit unions for ATM and payment-processing services; Co-Op now counts 23 of the 25 largest U.S. credit unions as clients.
- Bill.com, which specializes in online bill-pay for small businesses, announced an integration with Intuit Inc.’s QuickBooks Online, an accounting service used by many small companies.
- Merchant acceptance of Denmark’s mobile-payment app MobilePay will expand to Finland and Norway this year, said VeriFone Systems Inc., which helped create the app with Danske Bank.
- Christina McGeorge, chief product officer at D3 Banking, a vendor of digital-banking platforms, has joined the executive leadership team of the API Standardization Industry Group, formed by automated clearing house governing body NACHA to work on ways to standardize application programming interfaces in financial services.
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