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VeriFone Looks to Services And Mobile Payments for Growth

North American sales were flat, but leading U.S. point-of-sale terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. still posted a 21% increase in revenues on the strength of its international business in the quarter ended July 31, and profits jumped 42%. Fresh from its August acquisition of long-time rival Hypercom Corp., VeriFone anticipates …

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Consumers May Not See Much Durbin Benefit from Card-Not-Present Merchants

  n Some 41% of card-not-present merchants responding to the survey at the Direct Response Forum’s annual conference earlier this month said they do not intend to pass on lower debit card costs to consumers, according to results announced on Thursday by the DRF. Fully 56% said they don’t know …

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Trends & Tactics

  What Keeps ATM Execs up at Night?       Complying with new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements and fighting fraudsters who put skimmers on their machines rank high on the to-do lists of ATM managers.   The findings come in a new report from Aite Group LLC …

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Acquiring: Turf Wars?

  Jim Daly   Merchant acquirers are keeping a watchful eye on the bank card networks as the publicly held companies seemingly move onto turf acquirers regard as their own. Are acquirers’ fears about network ambitions justified?       Moving transactions from merchant locations to cardholder accounts and back …

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The Age of Offers

  Startups and established companies alike are betting that consumers obsessed with daily deals could jump-start mobile payments. But it may take a while for that bet to pay off.   By Jane Adler       Rewards redemption with a mobile device at the point of sale isn’t a …

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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. …

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