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July 2, 2009
     MasterCard Puts the 13-Year-Old Wal-Mart Case in the Rear-View Mirror
     NYCE Looks to 2010 for SafeDebit Rollout, Pilot Later This Year

June 30, 2009
     Yankee Group: NFC Transactions Will Soar into the Millions Next Year
     Travel Agents Prepare to Fight United on New Card-Acceptance Policy

June 29, 2009
     Acquiring Deal with BofA Lets First Data Renew Its Alliance Model
     Price Tag for End-to-End Encryption: $4.8 Billion, Mercator Says

June 25, 2009
     Bling Nation’s Community Payment Platform Goes Live in Colorado

June 24, 2009
     AllTrust Looks to Newly Minted Patent for Remote Capture Growth
     One to Many: Visa Gets a Single Connection to Multiple Carriers

June 23, 2009
     CashEdge Unveils a P2P Service To Be Controlled by Banks
     Beyond Stickers: Contactless ‘Skins’ for Payments with Handsets

June 22, 2009
     With a New PIN Pad, First Data Promotes Contactless to Merchants

June 18, 2009
     Discover’s Transaction Volumes Hold Up in a Turbulent Quarter

June 17, 2009
     MasterCard Launches Mobile MoneySend for U.S. P2P Transactions
     Consolidators To Take Greater Share of Slower-Growing Bill-Pay Market

June 16, 2009
     Boku Debuts to Exploit Markets in Social Networks And Games
     The Banking System Scrambles Toward IAT’s September Launch

June 15, 2009
     Carrier-Based Mobile P2P Gets Under Way in Canada

June 12, 2009
     Two More Congressional Bills Aim at Interchange Regulation

June 10, 2009
     Rising Fees Could Be Culprit As Fewer Doctors Accept Credit Cards
     Security Issues Weigh Most Heavily with Acquirers, Research Says

June 9, 2009
     Merchant Groups Ask for Broad Changes in Letter to PCI’s Overseer
     A Designed-for-ISOs Remote Capture Product Begins to Win Business

June 8, 2009
     Dead in ’08, Back in ’09: Congress Reintroduces an Interchange Bill

June 4, 2009
     Amid Recession, PIN Debit Growth Far Outpaces Signature
     Eye on Security: ‘Unique’ ATM Malware; Theft of Sony Card Data

June 3, 2009
     Latest Pilot Will Put Online PIN Debit to the Test for Credit Unions

June 2, 2009
     Merchant And ISO Austerity Leads to Tough Quarter at VeriFone
     Older Operating System Lingers, Holds Back ATM Services, Study Says
     Pressure for Mobile Banking Spurs Faster Deployment Technology

May 29, 2009
     New Research Shows Optimism About Mobile Banking And Payments

May 28, 2009
     Stats Show Bill Payments Remain the Star of E-Checks on the ACH

May 27, 2009
     Kansas City Fed Chief Espouses ACH for Debit Card Processing
     Four Years Later, a Lawsuit Springs from CardSystems Breach

May 26, 2009
     UpClick Touts Free Processing In Return for Cross-Sell Offers
     How Walk-in Bill Pay, Prepaid Cards Could Win over Check Cashers

May 21, 2009
     Eye on Mobile Payments: Intuit, Bango Launch Card Services
     Instant Issuance Comes to Stickers, Fobs, And NFC Phones

May 20, 2009
     Congress Will Study Interchange And Eyes Rules for Gift Cards
     An Expert Casts Doubt on Stickers for Mobile Payments at the POS

May 18, 2009
     A Startup Aims to Bring Teens & Tweens into E-Commerce
     NRF Exec: Non-Credit Card Discounts Have a ’50-50’ Chance

May 14, 2009
     Passions Are Far from Cooling in Debate over Card Interchange
     The Senate Mulls Easing Discounts for Non-Credit Card Payments

May 13, 2009
     Survey: Banks’ Post-Breach Reissuance Increasingly Costly
     RBS Gets an OK on PCI, But Is It Back in Visa’s Good Graces?

May 11, 2009
     CheXout Aims to Bridge Mobile Processors to Physical Payments
     Online Resources Seeks Peace With Its Biggest Shareholder

May 7, 2009
     Heartland Reports a Loss, While Carr Decries a MasterCard Fine
     A New Bill Seeks to Allow But Also Regulate Internet Bets

May 6, 2009
     Travelex Gives a Lift to MasterCard’s Year-Old Debit Platform

May 5, 2009
     With Tri-Mode M-Banking, mFoundry Eyes High Growth
     By Snapping up Commerciant, BankServ Enters Mobile Market

May 4, 2009
     Sour Economy, Costs Pressure Billers to Push Harder for E-Bills

May 1, 2009
     Debit Cards Propel What Growth There Is for MasterCard And Visa

April 30, 2009
     Merchant Group Pushes Card-Security Standard in Parallel to PCI

April 29, 2009
     EBay Boss Says PayPal Will Exceed One-Third of Company in ‘09
     How Nokia’s New Phone Could Be a Shot in the Arm for NFC

April 28, 2009
     CyberSource: Online Fraudsters Clipped Airlines for $1.4 Billion

April 27, 2009
     Remote Key Loading Good for ISOs And Retailers, Says Hypercom

April 24, 2009
     You Can’t Set It And Forget It with PCI, Network Execs Say

April 23, 2009
     PCI for Small Merchants Gives Rise to Headaches, Opportunities
     How Washington's Credit Card Fray Could Hammer Acquirers

April 22, 2009
     First Atlantic Denies IRS Allegations in Offshore Tax Investigation
     Terminal Rivals Cooperate on Plan for Card Data Security

April 20, 2009
     Money Transmitters Shrug off Recession, Downplay New Channels

April 17, 2009
     It’s Not Perfect, But PCI Helps Secure Card Data, Study Finds
     First Data Reviews Request from Feds On Offshore Merchants

April 16, 2009
     Visa’s payWave Platform Connects with the Vending Machine Market

April 15, 2009
     Test Yields Upbeat Results for Bling Nation’s On-Us Platform
     How a Shakeout in Processing Is Culling the Ranks of Major Players

April 14, 2009
     A Rival Emerges to the Fed’s Plan for Faster ACH Clearing

April 10, 2009
     Eyeing New Markets, A Niche Payment Player Wards off Recession

April 9, 2009
     Consumers Still Unimpressed by Mobile Banking and Payments
     Tempo Plans Some Noise for a Quiet Decoupled Debit Card Market

April 7, 2009
     Surprise! Mobile-Banking Adoption Depends on Phone, Not Age
     New Mobile App Books And Pays for Taxi Rides in 27 Metro Areas

April 6, 2009
     Internet Pioneer Case Promotes RevolutionCard to Audience of Bankers

April 2, 2009
     Fraudsters Beef up Attacks on Checks As the ‘Weakest Link’
     Recession Is Boosting Some Prepaid Cards, But Profits Are Lagging

April 1, 2009
     FIS’s Metavante Acquisition To Create a Processing Powerhouse

March 31, 2009
     There’s No Bill, But the Interchange War Heats up in D.C. All the Same
     Contactless Stickers for Cell Phones Move onto Payments Networks

March 30, 2009
     Sale of Fifth Third Processing Biggest Such Deal in More Than a Year

March 27, 2009
     Now in Pilot, Visa’s Consumer Alerts Set to Roll out Later This Year

March 26, 2009
     Acquiring Gains at First Data Despite a Tough Merchant Environment

March 25, 2009
     Merchants Vent Their Ire over Checkout Pricing on Google Site

March 24, 2009
     Bill Me Later (And Thus eBay) Enters Tax Payments Via Link2Gov
     Heartland Gets Hedge-Fund Investment And Warns Rival Processors

March 23, 2009
     Pulse Becomes Third EFT Network to Agree to Test Online PIN Debit

March 18, 2009
     With Antonini’s Abrupt Departure, Cardtronics Looks for a New Boss

March 17, 2009
     Breach-Related Woes Continue to Pile up for Beleaguered Heartland
     Higher Fees Could be Rainmakers for the Bank Card Networks
     To Cut Fraud Losses, Don’t Wait for Chargebacks, Apple Says

March 16, 2009
     While Google Checkout Reprices, eBay Eyes Big Growth for PayPal

March 14, 2009
     Visa Acts Against Heartland, RBS—But Some Say It’s Not Enough

March 11, 2009
     A Cautious Chase Paymentech Signs Up for Online PIN Debit
     Hypercom Sees a Hit from the Recession, Exchange Rates
     Reload Competition Heats up with Visa’s MoneyGram Deal

March 10, 2009
     Retailers Form Association To Defend Closed-Loop Gift Cards
     Heartland to Release Breach News—Though When It Can’t Say
     Acquirers Enlarge the AmEx and Discover Merchant Networks

March 5, 2009
     Web-Based PIN Debit Picks up Momentum with a Pilot and New Deals
     Study: Fraud Could Drive Consumers To Non-Bank Online Payments

March 4, 2009
     VeriFone Hopes to Counter Worldwide Slump with Security Push

March 3, 2009
     Paymate Adds an Aussie Accent to Crowded Online Payments Market

March 2, 2009
     Some Interchange Rates Up, Some Down, With Higher Auth Fees
     Why the Fed Is Moving to Same-Day Clearing for E-Checks

February 27, 2009
     Eye on Earnings: Cardtronics, TIO, Online Resources

February 26, 2009
     Discover’s Prepaid Teen Card Is the Latest Entry in a So-So Market
     New Products Could Spur Holdouts to Jump into Image Exchange

February 24, 2009
     Metavante Finds Adoption Rates Climbing for Expedited Bill Pay
     No Confirmation So Far for Multiple Reports of Another Breach
     Push for Deposits Lends Impetus to Consumer And Mobile Capture

February 19, 2009
     A New Service Lets Car Renters Pay Tolls with RFID Transponders

February 18, 2009
     Wal-Mart Slashes Fees on Prepaid MoneyCard As Economy Slumps
     Visa Agrees to Work with GSMA on Standards for Mobile Payments
     Online Spending Sags, But Not As Much as Overall Retail Sales

February 17, 2009
     UATP Keeps Its Eye on Alternative Payments—and Hotels
     New Banking Group Aims at Smoothing out Image-Exchange Process

February 12, 2009
     Merchant Warehouse Launches a Terminal-Based Rate Cutter
     ACH Bill Payments Shine As Other E-Checks Dim with Check Decline

February 11, 2009
     How Checking Fees Create An Opening for Prepaid Cards
     Noca Stresses Low-Cost ACH Payments for Online Merchants

February 10, 2009
     Mazooma Launches As Consumers Seek out Alternatives to Credit

February 9, 2009
     More ID Fraud Cases Stem from Data Breaches, Report Says

February 5, 2009
     Amazon Launches Flexible Payments As a Commercial Service
     It’s Hunker-Down Time for the Bank Card Networks

February 4, 2009
     RBS WorldPay Rocked by ATM Fraud As New CEO Takes the Helm
     NACHA Group Close to Proposals for Mobile Payments on the ACH

February 3, 2009
     Court: AmEx Can’t Use Arbitration To Thwart Merchant Class Actions

February 2, 2009
     ISO First American Seeks Early Mover Advantage with Remote Capture

January 30, 2009
     Can Facebook Grasp the Payments Opportunity Now in Front of It?

January 28, 2009
     The Recession Is Sending Rates of Friendly Fraud Up, Processors Say
     Pricing Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story About Merchant Attrition

January 27, 2009
     ‘Difficult’ Times Hammer the Centurion’s Card And Acquiring Results

January 26, 2009
     Heartland’s Carr Calls for End-to-End Encryption To Stop Breaches
     Credit Losses at Bill Me Later Climb Past 8% But Don’t Faze eBay

January 22, 2009
     Banks’ Card Reissuance Indicates Probable Scope of Heartland Breach
     Watch Gen Yers with iPhones to Figure out Next-Gen Payment Plans

January 21, 2009
     New Fax Product Aims at Easing Remote Capture for Low-Volume Users

January 20, 2009
     PCI’s Shield Suffers Another Blow As Heartland Reports a Hack

January 19, 2009
     MasterCard: Paper Not Opening Salvo in ’09 Interchange Wars
     That Sucking Sound Is the Downdraft in Big Banks’ Charge Volumes

January 15, 2009
     How Some Retailers Have Bolstered Their Gift Cards’ Firepower
     Maverick Launches with Merchant-Issued Debit Cards, Prepaid Cards
     Century Payments Forms to Pursue Opportunities in Acquiring
     The Challenge Confronting PayPal, Google, And Amazon

January 13, 2009
     Banking Processors Quietly Grab Market Share in Mobile Services

January 12, 2009
     Entrenching Itself with Merchants, First Data Enhances Its POS Line

January 8, 2009
     Behind Wausau’s Plans to Recruit ISOs to Sell Remote Deposit Capture
     With Breaches Rising, Insurer Offers Card-Compromise Coverage
     How the End of E-Commerce As We Know It Spawns Opportunity

January 7, 2009
     ISO YapStone Enters Utility Payments with Paymerica Acquisition

January 5, 2009
     Though It Has a Small Share, the iPhone Rings Up Payments Innovation
     MasterCard’s $100 Million Orbiscom Deal Points to New Markets

January 1, 2009
     How the Onset of Web 2.0 Puts E-Commerce up for Grabs

December 31, 2008
     Facebook Balks, But Expect Social Networks to Launch Payments
     Bill Me Later Not Likely to Suffer from Its Ouster from Amazon

December 29, 2008
     Fraudsters Run One-Stop Shop Online to Sell Data-Stealing Code

December 24, 2008
     Software And Smart Phones Will Drive Mobile Payments, Report Says

December 23, 2008
     RBS WorldPay Breach Rings Alarm Bells About Acquirer Security
     Online Holiday Sales Track with Last Year, But Average Tickets Drop

December 18, 2008
     No Letting up on the Merchant-Acquiring Throttle at Discover
     Mobile-Payments Startup Paymo Aims at Tough Micropayments Market
     Boston Transit System Tests Mobile Payments for Commuter Parking

December 17, 2008
     Schools And State Agencies Eye NACHA’s Online Payment System
     Terminal Kingpin VeriFone Doesn’t See a Turnaround Until 2010

December 16, 2008
     RemitPro Launches All-in-One Pricing for Remote Deposit Capture

December 12, 2008
     United Bank Card Looks for Growth from New POS Product Line

December 10, 2008
     Online Merchants May Have a Tougher Time with Fraud in 2009

December 9, 2008
     With NFC Stalled, Mobile Payments Will Follow Other Paths, Report Says
     An AmEx-Delta Cobrand Deal Carries Acquiring, Debit Implications
     Processors Jockey for Position in Fast-Growing Digital-Content Market

December 8, 2008
     Fraudsters Moving on from Stored Data to Thefts of Data in Transit

December 4, 2008
     Eyeing Debit, Visa Posts Its Canadian Interchange Rates on the Web
     Credit Unions Expected to Lead the Charge into Consumer Capture
     How a Security Mandate Could Force Software Vendors out of Payments

December 3, 2008
     Why NYCE Plans To Test Two Online PIN Debit Systems in Parallel

December 2, 2008
     Mobile Banking Appeals More to Small Businesses Than to Consumers
     A New LML Patent Could Bring It a Bonanza in E-Check Fees

November 26, 2008
     Banks Make Strides in Fighting ID Fraud, But Lag in Mobile Alerts
     Deal with TRM Unit Gives Select-A-Branch Access to National Market

November 25, 2008
     Burden of Final UIGEA Rule May Not Be As Heavy As Some Expected
     Mobile Banking Moves to the Point of Sale with Consumer Incentives

November 24, 2008
     How the Coming of Duality Could Simplify Canadian Acquiring
     Slowing ISO Orders Clip Revenues for Terminal Kingpin VeriFone

November 20, 2008
     PayPal’s Chief Proposes Direct Links Between Banks And PayPal

November 19, 2008
     U.S. Bank Hikes Contactless Adoption with Targeted Issuance
     Bling Nation Harnesses Contactless for an On-Us Payments Network

November 18, 2008
     NYCE Revives ‘Safe Debit’ Name for PINless Debit Test Set for '09
     Heartland Gets Into the Loyalty Business with Its Chockstone Deal

November 17, 2008
     The PCI Council Starts a Quality-Control Program for Assessors

November 13, 2008
     Shell Seeks to Cut Acceptance Costs, Pump Up Loyalty With ACH Card
     Startup Kount Looks to Chase Paymentech Deal for Accelerated Growth

November 12, 2008
     A Sour Economy Won’t Hurt Online Shopping—Or Alternative Payments

November 11, 2008
     MoneyGram May Struggle for Traffic on Vcoms, Expert Warns
     A Big ISO Seeks to Help Merchants Sort out Myriad Business Systems

November 10, 2008
     Electronic Payments Are Poised To Ride Out Economic Storms

November 6, 2008
     How US Dataworks Hopes to Grease the Skids for Remote Capture
     With Infonox, TSYS Acquiring Gears up for Boom in Transactions

November 5, 2008
     Will New DoJ Inquiry Lead to More Litigation for Card Networks?
     First Data-InComm Deal Appears To Be Casualty of Economic Tailspin

November 4, 2008
     As with Visa, MasterCard Sees Debit Growth Offsetting Credit Malaise

November 3, 2008
     As Chase and First Data Part Ways, Chase Eyes Alternative Payments

October 30, 2008
     MasterCard Sees New Service As a Big Step Toward Commercial NFC
     In the U.S., Visa Banks on Debit As Credit Growth Goes Negative

October 29, 2008
     New BBB-Backed Payroll Card Program Aims at Fast Growth

October 28, 2008
     Canada Is Set to Start a National Rollout of Chip-Equipped Debit Cards
     Taxes and Morgan Stanley Erode Discover's Settlement Gains

October 27, 2008
     Drop in Check Writing Cools off Once Red-Hot ACH E-Checks
     ISOs, Economic Crunch Could Spur Banks to Push Remote Capture

October 24, 2008
     ‘Interesting Times’ Await ISOs As Congress Eyes Card Legislation

October 23, 2008
     Online PIN Debit Pilot Could Lead to Commercial Service by Mid ‘09
     A Major Merchant Tells What It Wants To See in POS Technology

October 21, 2008
     Downturn’s Headwinds Slow Western Union’s Bill-Pay Business
     Moneta Seeks Growth in Alternative Payments by Working with Banks

October 20, 2008
     A Slumping Economy Hits AmEx’s Merchant-Acquiring Machine

October 17, 2008
     Western Union’s Expedited Offering Nears the Starting Gate

October 16, 2008
     Study Shows Growth for E-Payments, But Paper Lurks Under the Hood

October 15, 2008
     Off-eBay Volume Tops Auction Payments for the First Time at PayPal
     Contactless Payment Stickers Appear To Be Set for Prime Time

October 14, 2008
     Citi’s Mobile P-to-P Service Could See Commercial Launch in ‘09
     Better ATM: Amazon Gift Cards Now, Network-Branded Cards Later

October 9, 2008
     Time Is Short, But Revolution Money Sticks to Million-Merchant Goal
     After a Long Delay, NACHA Eyes Mid ’09 As Soonest Start for DCT

October 8, 2008
     Plenty of Upside for eBay in Bill Me Later Deal, Experts Say
     More Big Merchants Comply, But PCI Likely Still Foreign to Small Fry

October 7, 2008
     BART Pilot Results Prove Case for Multiaccount NFC, First Data Says

October 6, 2008
     Bill Me Later Extends eBay’s Payments Reach to Top Web Retailers

October 3, 2008
     Visa Could Score a Debit Win As Wachovia Jilts Citi for Wells

October 2, 2008
     Visa Looks to Imaging ATMs to Offer Prepaid Card Reloads
     Reputation, Products, Free Terminals Rank High in ISO Selection

October 1, 2008
     An ACH-Based Bill-Pay Pilot Promises Fee Income to Banks
     New Version of PCI Shows More Flexibility, While PABP Takes Hold

September 29, 2008
     MasterCard Could Catch a Break from Citi’s Deal for Wachovia
     How ProPay Plans to Leverage Its Position in eBay Transactions

September 26, 2008
     Chase’s WaMu Deal Puts MasterCard on the Debit Defensive

September 25, 2008
     Visa Plans Launches for Google’s Android, Nokia, And Money Transfer

September 24, 2008
     Interchange: the Unheralded Benefit of Unembossed Cards

September 23, 2008
     A Bill Moves Ahead That Would Limit Scope of Online-Gambling Law
     PDFs Offer Promising New Opportunity for Online Fraudsters

September 22, 2008
     Electronic Bill Pay Growing, But No Bonanza in Expedited Payments
     ISOs Are Bullish About Pay-at-Table Market Despite Sour Economy

September 19, 2008
     Debit Rivalry Heats up with National City, RBS Shifts to Visa

September 18, 2008
     Funding in Hand, eBillme Zeroes in on Consumer Cash Preference
     Moneris Fills a Gap With Its Pending Humboldt Acquisition

September 17, 2008
     Mobile Access, Rising Fees Lift Potential in Expedited Payments

September 16, 2008
     Payments Changes at eBay Go Well Beyond Tossing out Checks
     An Over-the-Air Test Could Move NFC Closer to Commercial Use

September 11, 2008
     A Hot Item for Years, NACHA’s ARC Begins to Cool off

September 10, 2008
     Temperatures Rise in Canadian Merchant Protest over Card Fees
     New Group Will Hammer out Rules for Cross-Border Online Payments

September 9, 2008
     Fiserv Scores Mobile ‘Triple Play,’ But No POS Payments Soon
     Latest DataTreasury Settlements Add to Pressure on Defendants

September 8, 2008
     Viewpointe Picks up Image Settlement with Its PaymentsNation Deal

September 4, 2008
     Canadian Business Group Warns of Higher POS Debit Pricing
     BOC Will Remain a Minor League E-Check, Expert Says

September 3, 2008
     PayPal’s Airline Business Gains More Altitude with Continental
     E-Commerce Faces a Rapidly Rising Threat from Fraudsters’ Malware

September 2, 2008
     Merchant Gripes Led Startup Comparison Site to Focus on Processing

September 1, 2008
     ISOs Hope To Influence Upcoming Merchant Reporting Regulations

August 28, 2008
     Public Sector Drives Network-Branded Prepaid Card Growth

August 27, 2008
     Users Proliferate, But Banks Face a Cost Squeeze in Online Bill Pay

August 26, 2008
     Both Sides Claim Victory After Judge Rules in Discover’s Antitrust Case
     Eye on the Web: Biller Direct Grows, As Does U.S. Mobile Web Usage
     Post-IPO, the Bank Card Networks Open up To Go for Volume

August 25, 2008
     NACHA’s Online Payment System Starts to Catch on on Campus

August 20, 2008
     Online PIN Debit Gets a Boost with the Latest UATP Payments Deal
     AT&T Aims to Ring up Savings with e-Bills Via CheckFree Banks

August 19, 2008
     If You’re a Small Bank, the Trend Is Your Friend in Electronic Payments
     The Coming PCI Update: Mostly Tweaks, but WEP Gets Whacked
     Commercial in '09. Visa Alerts Will Include Two-Way Messaging

August 18, 2008
     Debit Study: No-Surcharge, Rewards Get Hot, Contactless Cools off

August 14, 2008
     Shift to Discount Stores Hurts First Data, But New Products Await
     JPMorgan Offers Insurers a Prepaid Visa Card for Workers’ Comp

August 13, 2008
     ATM Network MoneyPass Quietly Books a Slew of New Members
     Industry Insiders Say Billing Gaining Ground for Mobile Content Payments

August 12, 2008
     The Coming End of Big-Issuer Hegemony in Bank Card Payments
     Cardtronics Looks to Market Its In-House Processing Platform

August 7, 2008
     A Race to Stay Ahead of Hackers in Fixing a Massive Internet Flaw
     Eye on Earnings: Heartland Payment Systems, TNS, FIS

August 6, 2008
     Blockbuster-NCR Deal Heats Up Competition in Unattended Payments
     A Fed Dragnet Catches Some Big Fish, But Are the Hacks Solved?
     Merchants, Acquirers, and ISOs: Diverging Paths to the Future

August 5, 2008
     NACHA Moves Back IAT Deadline to Allow More Time for Testing

July 31, 2008
     Debit Keeps the Bank Card Networks Humming
     Critics Decry a Costly Merchant-Reporting Rule, But It’s Now the Law

July 30, 2008
     Amazon Ramps Up the Online-Payments Competition

July 29, 2008
     Obopay’s Price Hike Has Evoked No User Complaints, Processor Says
     Doldrums Over, Summer Winds Fill Sails of Alternative Payments

July 28, 2008
     With Eight Months to Go, Some Banks May Have to Scramble To Do IATs

July 23, 2008
     Eye on Earnings: American Express, USA Technologies, Fifth Third
     A High-Tech Card Maker Aims for ‘Holy Grail’ of Transaction Cards
     POP’s Still on a Roll a Year After BOC’s Debut

July 22, 2008
     An Impatient ISO Retools to Sell Emerging Transaction Technology
     TNS Hopes Its Dial-up-to-IP Converter Will Draw Cost-Conscious Merchants
     Online Banking Grows at BofA and Chase, But Who Is “Active?”

July 17, 2008
     With UIGEA Reform Stymied, a Web-Gambling Tax Bill Emerges

July 16, 2008
     New Merchants, Account Growth Propel PayPal's Non-Auction Volume
     House Committee Passes Interchange Bill, But Scraps Panel of Judges

July 15, 2008
     Up Only a Week, ChargeSmart’s Next Step Is Lender Tie-Ins
     With Boston on Board, Select-A-Branch Plans Further Expansion

July 14, 2008
     Bill Me Later’s Growth Plans Don’t Stop at Amazon Acceptance

July 10, 2008
     Google’s Gmail Joins eBay and PayPal in Phishing Fight

July 9, 2008
     Visa Rule Change Means Little Change for Web-Based PINless Debit
     A MyGallons Rival Emerges to Let Users Lock in Gas Prices

July 8, 2008
     Obopay Maps a Strategy for Mobile Payments in ‘Niche’ Markets

July 7, 2008
     Electronic Bill Pay Gains At Paper’s Expense, But Growth Is Slowing
     A Prepaid Card That Lets Consumers Lock in Gas Prices Seeks a Network

July 2, 2008
     An Extension of Security Rules to Unattended Terminals Could Be Costly
     Raw Data-Breach Numbers Rise, But the Real Picture Is Fuzzy

July 1, 2008
     A Visa Rule Change Prompted by DoJ Could Foster PINless Debit
     Gasoline Marketers Underwhelmed by New Visa Interchange Rates
     Viewpointe Adds to Momentum Behind Web Links for Image Exchange

June 30, 2008
     FTC, DoJ Are Leery of Bills That Would Regulate Interchange Rates

June 26, 2008
     A PCI Deadline Approaches for Internet Application Security
     Remotely Created Checks Linked to Image Exchange Stoke Fraud Fears

June 25, 2008
     Processors, Merchants Fret As Card-Reporting Measure Advances

June 24, 2008
     After Abruptly Shuttering Its Service, Assurz Files for Bankruptcy
     Why Online Resources Is Linking to DolEx, Other Walk-in Operators
     Free-Terminal Kingpin Launches Integrated POS System for Merchants

June 20, 2008
     Revolution Money Aims for 1 Million Merchants, Cardholders by Year End
     PayPal To Roll out New Fraud Filters with Channel Partners by January

June 19, 2008
     MasterCard Plans to Have U.S. P-to-P Service Launched by Early ‘09

June 18, 2008
     A New Card Swipe Device Could Move PayPal Closer to POS Payments

June 17, 2008
     Five Steps Online Merchants Can Take to Batten Down Their Sites

June 16, 2008
     Merchants Should Consider Open-Loop Variants to Prepaid Cards

June 12, 2008
     Global Security Fears Remain a Drag on Mobile Banking and Payments
     How Customer Research Can Sort Out Alternative Payment Choices

June 10, 2008
     Study: POS Debit Rises, While Consumers Confirm PIN Preference
     Online Merchant Counsels Retailers on Controlling Payment Costs

June 9, 2008
     Survey Finds Low Prepaid Market Penetration Among Underbanked
     Security Fears Remain a High Hurdle for New Payments Technologies

June 5, 2008
     Durbin Adds Senate Bill to House Effort to Rein in Interchange

June 4, 2008
     How U.S. Bank Hopes To Catch a Wave in Contactless Payments
     How Tyfone Looks to Free Banks from Carriers in Mobile Payments

June 3, 2008
     New Electronic Benefit Options Score High in Michigan on First Day
     Indiana Bank’s Debit Card Breach Underscores Issuer Vulnerability

June 2, 2008
     Researcher Sees Issuers’ Service Providers as PCI ‘Hot Spots’

May 30, 2008
     A Senate Letter Ratchets up the Heat on Ne