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• The rash of hotel breaches continues. Noble House Hotels & Resorts said it confirmed that a payment card system used at its Teton Mountain Lodge & Spa and Hotel Terra may have been breached between Sept. 5 and Sept. 6. The company said there are no indications the breach extended beyond Sept. 6. In early September, Noble House reported that malware may have compromised payment cards used at 11 of its other properties.
• Handbag maker Vera Bradley Inc. said hackers may have accessed payment card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates, and internal verification codes from its stores’ payment processing systems between July 25 and Sept. 23, Reuters reported.
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported merchant-processing volume of $267.2 billion in the third quarter, up 13% from $235.8 billion a year earlier.
• Wells Fargo & Co. said its third-quarter debit card purchase volume increased 8% year-over-year to $76 billion.
• Payment technology provider FreedomPay Inc. said its commerce platform now supports EMV chip card payments on Oracle Corp.’s Opera property-management system for hotels.
• International Card Establishment, a processor specializing in stores providing legal and recreational marijuana, said it has begun discussions with three Bitcoin companies to integrate a Bitcoin wallet and quick-response payments in its NetOne point-of-sale system.
• Parking-payment technology company PayBySky said it is working with Calgary Parking Authority in Calgary, Alberta, to provide a service that allows motorists to use an in-car device called a Skymeter to pay for their parking. The device pinpoints the car’s location and automatically pays from the motorist’s account.
• Fiber-network communications provider Level 3 Communications Inc. released a list of best practices for retailers to protect payment, financial, employee, and other records during the 2016 holiday season.
• Image Technology Systems, developer of the Visual Matrix software products for property management, said its system is now integrated with payment gateway Merchant Link’s TransactionLink service, enabling Visual Matrix customers to get EMV chip card acceptance, tokenization, and point-to-point data encryption.
• Subscription-payments specialist Recurly Inc. announced Recurly Gift Subscriptions, a service that enables subscriptions businesses to offer their products in the form of gift cards and gift plans.
• Transfast, a U.S. provider of multicurrency cross-border funds transfers for consumers and businesses, announced a deal with ride-hailing service Uber in which senders and receivers using Transfast in 12 countries will receive a free Uber ride until Nov. 30.
