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The cryptocurrency Litecoin was still riding high Friday morning following a mid-week announcement that a new entity called LitePay Inc. will provide merchant processing in 41 countries, including the United States, starting Feb. 26. As of mid-morning, Litecoin traded at $220, up 38% from $160 at noon Tuesday. Also this week, Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency exchange, announced it has launched a service to allow merchants to accept Litecoin as well as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ethereum.
ATMs operated by non-bank entities account for 59% of U.S. machines, or 278,394 ATMs out of an installed base totaling 470,135, according to a study released by the National ATM Council Inc., a trade group for independent ATM deployers.
The Danish acquirer Clearhaus announced it is supporting Apple Pay acceptance for more than 5,000 merchants in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, countries where the mobile-payment service was introduced late last year.
Payment-security provider Bluefin Payment Systems announced a partnership with Datacap Systems Inc. and Monetary LLC to provide Bluefin’s point-to-point encryption service to merchants using Monetary’s commerce platform and Datacap’s integration partners.

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