|
|
|

|
News Archive
Here you can find all news stories from Digital Transactions News published since the inception of the newsletter.
|
|

|
February 8, 2010
As Competition Heats up, USA Technologies Settles With Dissidents
February 4, 2010
Debit Growth Is Still the Story As Visa And MasterCard File Results
Encryption, PIN Security, EMV Top Busy Agenda for PCI Council in 2010
Same-Store Card Sales Continue to Plunge for Small Businesses
February 3, 2010
Hackers Target Hotels for Card Data As Malware Gets More Insidious
February 2, 2010
Fiserv Sees An Opportunity in Filters for the ACH’s New IAT Code
February 1, 2010
VeriFone Goes Outside Usual Channels to Sell Its New iPhone Product
January 29, 2010
M&A Optimism Rises Even As NAB Stays Mum About Possible Sale
January 28, 2010
On the Back Burner in Congress, Interchange Heats up in California
How XipWire Plans to Build Usage for Its Text-Based Payments System
January 27, 2010
Study: Of All Breaches, Those Caused by Hacking Are the Costliest
UBC Backs ECR Giveaway with Merchant Leads And Appointments
January 25, 2010
How Biller-Direct Payments Are Making Slow But Steady Gains
January 21, 2010
Payment Volume, Platform Response Swell for an Upbeat PayPal
New Group Seeks Safe Debit Payments Online And for Mobile
January 20, 2010
Apriva Launches a Pair of Merchant Apps for Smart Phones
As Best Buy Tries Bill-Pay Kiosks, TIO Hopes for Big Expansion
January 19, 2010
Recession Helps Fuel Merchant Interest in Online PIN Debit
January 18, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Puts Mobile Payments in the Spotlight
January 15, 2010
Amazon’s PayPhrase Cuts Cart Abandonment for eFashionSolutions
January 14, 2010
MasterCard’s SunTrust Coup Includes Credit As Well As Debit Cards
January 13, 2010
Later This Year for Rules Clearing the Way for All-Digital Checks
Card Industry Has a Compelling Case for Data Encryption, Report Says
January 12, 2010
Star Ushers in New Rates, with Interchange Spiffs for Some Issuers
January 11, 2010
Best Buy Cuts off Visa Contactless with Little Risk to Sales
January 8, 2010
Heartland Settles with Visa, Agrees to Pay Nearly $60 Million for Losses
January 7, 2010
Could All-Digital Checks Be the Next App for Your Smart Phone?
Eye on Processing: Glitches Strike in U.S., Germany, And Australia
January 6, 2010
LML Scores First ACH Patent Settlement, Says More Could Follow
January 5, 2010
Discover Continues Its Zip Trial But Stays Mum About Any Rollout
Consumers Favor Debit Cards, But Prepaid Cards Lag Far Behind
December 29, 2009
Seeing Opportunity, Moneta Will Add Credit Offers to Its Online Wallet
Results Show a More Robust Holiday Shopping Season Than Expected
December 28, 2009
VeriFone Battles Heartland Publicly While the Two Talk in Private
December 23, 2009
Six Months Later, MasterCard Softens a Controversial PCI Rule
December 22, 2009
Settlements Still Leave Many Post-Breach Legal Woes for Heartland
December 18, 2009
Hypercom And Ex-Boss of TNS Lay Plans to Spark Growth for HBNet
December 17, 2009
Will Consumers’ Shift Away from Credit Cards Outlast the Recession?
Accel/Exchange Plans a Big Acquiring Push for Online PIN Debit
December 15, 2009
After a Difficult Year, Lawlor Exits As CEO at Online Resources
VeriFone Sees Promise in Mobile Apps And Taxi Transactions
December 14, 2009
Same-Day ACH Is ‘On Track,’ Says Fed, But Response Is Mixed
December 11, 2009
Eye on Prepaid: Facebook, Western Union, And Green Dot
December 10, 2009
Upbeat News from First Data on Average Tickets, Same-Store Sales
December 9, 2009
As Online Bill Pay Surges, WEB Closes Gap with E-Check Leader ARC
December 8, 2009
Early Results Are Inconclusive for NACHA’s New IAT Code
VeriFone Brings a Terminal Maker’s Savvy to Mobile Payments
December 7, 2009
C-Stores Prepare New Anti-Interchange Petition Drive
December 3, 2009
Square Gets Points for Cleverness, But Leaves Questions Unanswered
Secure Vault Payments Wins High Adoption at University of Georgia
December 2, 2009
Peak Shopping Days Give Cause for Cautious Optimism on Payments
December 1, 2009
The Latest Forecast Is Especially Sunny for Prepaid Cards
November 30, 2009
With Payments a Big Part of Health-Care Costs, Automation Efforts Arise
As a Mobile Shopping App Grows, It Looks to Add PayPal Payment
November 27, 2009
Congress Mulls Alternatives to Unlawful Internet Gambling Ban
November 25, 2009
How the Rise of Smart Phones Could Unleash a Wave of Fraud
A Proxy Fight Breaks Out at USA Technologies
November 24, 2009
As More Banks Fight ID Fraud, Many Still Lag in Alerts, Report Says
November 23, 2009
After the GAO Report, Outlook for Interchange Regulation Is Cloudy
Early Read on the Holidays: Tickets Drop As Transactions Climb
November 19, 2009
Merchant Attrition Is Top Challenge As Acquirers Look Ahead to 2010
Reducing Interchange Would ‘Pose Challenges,’ the GAO Says
Despite the Recession, Online Fraud Takes a Dip in 2009
November 18, 2009
AmEx To Buy Revolution Money in an Alternative-Payment Play
November 17, 2009
How ISOs Are Tackling the Knotty Issue of Level 4 PCI Compliance
November 16, 2009
First Data Works with Accertify to Democratize Fraud Screening
November 13, 2009
Visa Warns of Suspect Web Marketers, Requires More ISO Disclosure
November 12, 2009
NCR’s Pilot for Movie-Download Kiosks Opens New Transaction Market
November 11, 2009
With Four Suits Pending, the VeriFone-Heartland Feud Escalates
RBS WorldPay Indictment Outlines Sophisticated Hacker Coordination
November 10, 2009
A Battle for Deposits Helps Fuel Bank Interest in P2P Payments
November 9, 2009
Payvment Uses a PayPal API to Launch a Next-Gen Shopping Cart
November 6, 2009
How Banks Are Looking to Become Serious Players in P2P Payments
November 4, 2009
Despite a Fast Start in Mobile Banking, BofA’s Job Isn’t Done
November 3, 2009
PayPal Unveils Platform X, And with It an Array of APIs And New Pricing
Eye on Earnings: Heartland vs. VeriFone; MasterCard Is Cautious
November 2, 2009
Accel/Exchange Goes Live With Online PIN Debit
Cynergy Data Starts Life Anew After a Trip to Bankruptcy Court
October 30, 2009
Seeking to Boost Transactions, Star Debuts Prepaid Reloads
October 29, 2009
Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom: Inside’s Strategy for NFC Workarounds
October 28, 2009
Analysts: Processors Must Seek Growth in Non-Credit Card Markets
October 27, 2009
Visa Readies a Canadian Debit Debut As Volumes Show Signs of Life
Ingenico Pitches a PDA for Computing And Card Acceptance
Card Problems Cost U.S. Issuers Hundreds of Millions Overseas
October 23, 2009
MasterCard Targets Small And Mid-Size Businesses for Utility Payments
October 22, 2009
Modern Bank Robbers Could Shutter As Many As 10 Financial Institutions
PayPal Steams Ahead, While Recession Takes a Toll on Bill Me Later
October 20, 2009
‘A Major Pivot’ for Revolution Money As It Shifts Its Focus to Issuers
An Inside Look at the Secret Service’s Battle to Hobble the Hackers
October 19, 2009
Tempo Boosts Decoupled Debit With New Technology, New Issuer
October 16, 2009
Amazon’s Mobile-Payments Boss Expects Fast Traction for Service
October 15, 2009
Report: Prepaid Issuers Must Upgrade Systems to Pass Stiff Tests
A Pair of Mobile Merchant Apps Debut with Tech Twists
October 14, 2009
A Startup Does Medical Payments on an Online Bill-Pay Model
October 13, 2009
Launch of Mobile Services Could Reignite Growth for Remote Capture
October 12, 2009
New Products Key to Revving up Growth in Bill-Pay Adoption
October 8, 2009
PayPal’s Push into E-Commerce Spurs New Funding Options
House Interchange Bill Brings Out the Venom on Both Sides
October 7, 2009
Eye on Opportunities in Expedited Bill Pay And Mobile Banking
Encryption, Tokenization Loom Large As PCI Council Mulls Changes
October 6, 2009
Glitches with Online Transactions, While Fewer, Still Pose Issues
October 5, 2009
Amazon Takes Payments Mobile, But Will Merchants Follow?
October 1, 2009
Fraud, Security Raise Cost Concerns for ATM Managers, Report Says
September 30, 2009
A Special Delivery on the Hill Makes Interchange a Grassroots Issue
AmEx Cuts Gift Card Fees And Expands Simon Mall Card Program
September 29, 2009
MasterCard Cries Foul As 7-Eleven Readies Interchange Petitions
A New Payments Security Group Plans a Mass Hack Simulation
An eBay for Card Processing Seeks to Cut Costs for Merchants
September 24, 2009
Why Billing Revolution Is Betting on Credit Cards for Mobile Payments
Report: Open-Loop Prepaid Load Volume Will Top Closed-Loop by 2012
September 23, 2009
Banks Start To Lose Their Appetite for Juicy Overdraft Fees
Tyfone Sees Its New Patent Advancing NFC on Memory Cards
September 22, 2009
Industry Giants First Data And RSA Give Tokenization a Boost
September 21, 2009
NACHA Proposes to Use WEB for Mobile Payments, for Now
September 17, 2009
Merchants Urge That U.S. Follow Overseas Example on Interchange
Processing Fees Are Lower, But Big And New Clients Benefit Most
September 16, 2009
PCI, Remote Capture Get a Wary Eye Among Some Health-Care Officials
September 15, 2009
A Google Checkout Glitch Raises Doubts About Alternative Payments
September 14, 2009
Aldi Grows While Bucking Grocers’ Trend Toward Card Acceptance
September 13, 2009
Don’t Hire a QSA by Seeking the Lowest Bid, Warns Heartland’s Carr
September 10, 2009
PCI Report Poses a Quandary: Where Did 1 Million Merchants Go?
A Pitch to Newspapers Highlights Google’s Plan for Micropayments
Rising Costs And a PCI Upgrade Drive Gas Sellers to Reconsider PIN Debit
September 9, 2009
Wells Brings Remittances to the Internet for ‘Tech-Savvy’ Users
Zenius Hopes to Break NFC Logjam By Focusing on Non-Bank Players
September 8, 2009
Success of Check 21 Sends Substitute Checks in Free Fall, Data Show
September 3, 2009
With Pulse Deal, Interac Expands Its Cross-Border Utility
With 1.4 Million Employees, Wal-Mart Puts Payroll Cards on the Map
September 2, 2009
Debt, Accounting Issues, Recession Led Cynergy Data to Bankruptcy
Cynergy Is an Example of Economic Stresses on ISOs, Experts Say
September 1, 2009
Citing Debt Load, Cynergy Data Declares Bankruptcy And Seeks Sale
August 31, 2009
Visa Follows MasterCard in Prepaying Its ‘Wal-Mart’ Obligations
August 27, 2009
Moneta’s Bank-Centric Strategy Gives It a Lift with Online Retailers
Nokia’s Mobile-Payments Gambit Could Give a Boost to Obopay
August 26, 2009
As Reloadable Cards Increase, Concerns Grow About Fees, Protection
August 25, 2009
With Walk-in Bill Pay, Wal-Mart Adds More Payments Muscle
New Intuit Payment Service Could Vie for Consumer Transactions
The PCI Council Offers Guidelines to Fight Skimming Scourge
August 21, 2009
Latest Stats Show WEB Poised to Displace ARC as E-Check Leader
August 20, 2009
An All-Handset Payments App Edges PayPal Closer to the Point of Sale
Report: Consolidation, Security, Debit Are Top Challenges for Acquirers
August 19, 2009
Despite Gonzalez Indictment, No Easy Answers for Merchants
August 18, 2009
It’s Official: At 130 Million Cards, Heartland Was Biggest Breach Ever
August 17, 2009
With Goldleaf, Jack Henry Beefs up Its Remote-Capture Business
August 14, 2009
Network Rivalry Sparks 10-Year Quadrupling of PIN-Debit Pricing
August 12, 2009
How the Recession Could Push up Fees for Expedited Bill Payments
August 11, 2009
Single-Branch USAA Looks to iPhone App to Capture More Deposits
Big Merchants Push RBS WorldPay into End-to-End Encryption
August 10, 2009
Kemesa Looks to Banks to Help Sell Its New Online Security Tool
Survey: PCI Awareness Is up Among Small Fry, But So Is PCI Confusion
August 7, 2009
Seeking Easier Prey, Fraudsters Attack Call Centers to Loot Accounts
August 6, 2009
Zong’s Growth Heats up Rivalry in Mobile Payments for Downloads
August 5, 2009
For the First Time, Banks Edge Billers in Race for Bill-Pay Traffic
August 4, 2009
Heartland Hit by Drop in Same-Store Sales, But Encryption Moves Ahead
As PayPal Returns to Normal, Outage Leaves Questions in Its Wake
August 3, 2009
Issuer Cutbacks Result in 104 Million Fewer U.S. Credit Cards
July 30, 2009
Pain on Main Street: A First-Ever Drop in Card-Based Same-Store Sales
July 29, 2009
Wireless Carriers Are Poised to Seize Mobile P2P, Report Says
A Mitek-Fiserv Deal Lifts Prospects for Mobile Deposit Capture
July 28, 2009
A Startup Builds on Cap One’s Decoupled Debit Program to Run Rewards
A Year Later, 500,000 Takers for Social Security Card Surprises Experts
July 27, 2009
Home Depot Opens the Door to Big-Box Contactless Payments
July 24, 2009
An ISO Shows How Smart Phones Are Taking Root in Acquiring
July 23, 2009
Microsoft Is Among the First to Try out PayPal’s New Payments API
Lower Spending on Each Transaction Drops Dollar Volume for AmEx
July 22, 2009
Going After Right Merchants for Remote Capture Pays off for ISOs
July 21, 2009
Eye on Acquiring: Airlines Seek Ways to Chop Acceptance Costs
July 20, 2009
Fifth Third Is the Latest Bank To Use Western Union for Money Transfer
July 17, 2009
PCI Council Releases Guidelines for Wireless Network Security
July 16, 2009
Interac Connects With Contactless Debit Payments
July 15, 2009
Eye on ISOs: Wooing Merchants Harder, Plus an ECR Giveaway
July 14, 2009
Online Bill Pay Gains 1.3 Million Households in ‘Generational Change’
Eye on M-Commerce: Apple's App Store Traffic Hits 1.5 Billion Downloads
July 13, 2009
Security Experts Start to Look at Data Encryption for Smart Phones
July 10, 2009
An Information Gap Sparks a Dust-Up over Remote Key Injection
July 9, 2009
How Verient Combines Security And Customization in Cards
July 8, 2009
PayPal Denies Adaptive Payments API Is a Ploy to ‘Crush’ Amazon FPS
July 7, 2009
MPX, Payments Central Merge in Latest ACH Consolidation Move
A 7-Eleven Anti-Interchange Petition ‘Touches a Nerve’
July 6, 2009
Canadian Legislative Report Echoes U.S. Card-Pricing Proposals
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 Networks over Interchange
May 29, 2008
New ‘Mobile Lockbox’ Service Could Help Drive Expedited Payments
May 28, 2008
Visa Extends Fraud-Recovery Process to PIN-Debit Transactions
Payment Issues Figure Among Reasons for Checkout Abandonment
May 27, 2008
How Far Will BofA And Wells Go with Their New ACH Platform?
How Chase And First Data Are Splitting Chase Paymentech
May 22, 2008
Once Languishing, POP Now Gets a Warm Welcome from Merchants
GAO Report Sheds Light on Federal Card-Acceptance Costs
May 21, 2008
A Fast Start for Online Resources’ Expedited Bill-Pay Offering
Igourmet Says Security Led It to Adopt Secure Vault Payments
May 20, 2008
Pariter Will Focus Its Efforts on BofA And Wells, CEO Says
May 19, 2008
Answering Analysts, First Data Keeps Mum About Chase Paymentech
May 15, 2008
Interchange Hearing Pits Small Merchant Against Small Credit Union
May 14, 2008
Due out in October, PCI Update Will Consist of Tweaks, Council Says
Bullish Projections Mask Usage Problem for Contactless Payments
May 13, 2008
NACHA’s New Boss Has Card, Merchant Acquiring Background
As Hearing Nears, Another Interchange Bill Is in the Works
Alternative Payments Make Gains Among Mid-Size Web Merchants
May 8, 2008
Cap One Says Its Decoupled Debit Card Pilots Ended on Schedule
Coming Soon to Cardtronics Vcom Kiosks: Imaged Deposits
May 7, 2008
Eye on Earnings: Hypercom, ORC, USA Technologies, Jack Henry
Stats Show a Surge in Paying Banks Now Receiving Check Images
May 6, 2008
Now Live, NACHA’s Secure Vault Payments Looks to ‘Ramp up’ in '08
May 5, 2008
A Diversifying Heartland Snaps up Alliance Data’s Merchant Unit
May 1, 2008
Google Checkout Hints No Ill Effects Since Merchant Pricing Resumed
Robust for Years, Debit Growth Expected to Weaken, Study Says
Moosejaw Not Part of a Strategy to Do POS Payments, PayPal Says
April 29, 2008
‘Challenging’ Times for Visa, MasterCard, But Debit Surges Ahead
A Renewed Effort at ACH-Based Driver’s Licenses Maps Its Plans
First Data Gets Major Retail Prepaid Distribution with InComm Deal
April 24, 2008
PayPal Launches Its First Mobile Service on a Downloadable Application
April 23, 2008
TRM Looks to Revival with $15 Million Deal for Access To Money
April 22, 2008
ELayaway Gets Set for Expansion After a Low-Key Start
Non-Auction Sales for PayPal Near Half of Processor’s Total Volume
April 21, 2008
New Bill Would Block Regs Aimed at Stopping Online Gaming Payments
Alliance Data Peddles Its Acquiring Unit As Blackstone Deal Crashes
April 17, 2008
Tax Bill Could Be Greater Threat Than Interchange Proposal for Acquirers
After Two Months, Signs Are Positive for Multi-Account NFC Pilot
PCI Council Will Tighten Data-Security Rules, Details to Come
April 16, 2008
Authorize.Net Rolls out Simple Checkout for Small Online Sellers
April 14, 2008
Shell Lowers MasterCard, AmEx Pricing for Its Jobbers And Retailers
April 11, 2008
Bankrupt Frontier Airlines Claims First Data Tried To Clip Its Wings
April 10, 2008
How Mobile Candy Dish Combines Handset-Based P-to-P with NFC
April 9, 2008
Terminal Maker VeriFone Steps into the Busy Data-Security Arena
Bigger Volume Jumps Are in Store for BOC E-Checks, NACHA Says
April 8, 2008
MasterCard Looks to Pick up Debit Volume And Share with IPS
April 7, 2008
Discover Triples Its Acceptance Network with Diners Club Deal
Pay By Touch Fades into History As Lenders Buy Core Assets
April 4, 2008
WaMu’s Contactless Plunge Could Win over Skeptical Merchants
April 3, 2008
ATM Direct’s New Bosses Say They Will ‘Own’ PIN Debit Online
April 2, 2008
Obopay Moves to Allow Direct Payments from User Checking Accounts
April 1, 2008
New P-to-P Service for Underbanked Looks to Launch M-Wallets
Plunging Check Volumes Spur Fed to Speed up Downsizing Efforts
March 31, 2008
Malware at Hannaford Raises More Questions About Data Security
March 28, 2008
Pay By Touch Selling Merchant Business to Merrick for $2 Million
March 27, 2008
How Phishing Threatens Banks' Efforts to Rely More on E-Mail
March 26, 2008
Green Appeals Effective in Recruiting e-Bill Users, Research Shows
March 25, 2008
New Check Data Show Steady Rise of Electronic Options
March 24, 2008
After BOC’s First Year, Ex-Banker Laments Slow Start for E-Check
Banks, Processors Struggle with Proposed Regs for Web Gambling
March 19, 2008
Pay By Touch Abruptly Shuts Down All Biometric Operations
For One Day, Cash Is King at Visa As Its IPO Soars
March 18, 2008
New Metavante Software Aims to Ease Banks’ Way into NACHA Pilot
Hannaford Bros. Was in Compliance with PCI When Hacked
Mobile P2P ‘Could Take off in a Hurry,’ Researcher Notes
March 17, 2008
Hannaford’s Big Breach Casts More Doubt on Data Security
March 14, 2008
First Data Filing Points to Break-up of Chase Paymentech
March 13, 2008
Overstock.com Says PayPal Yields Triple Expected Volume
Fraud Prevalence Levels off, But Incident Rate Increases
March 12, 2008
Big Gap Yawns Between Banks, Small Businesses on Scanner Prices
March 11, 2008
Following Citi Mobile, Bank Giant Forms Global M-Banking Venture
March 10, 2008
Interchange Bill Raises Questions About Role of Government
March 7, 2008
Pay By Touch Auctions off ATM Direct, BioPay Paycheck Secure
March 6, 2008
‘Friendly Fraud’ Grows Worse, But Chargebacks Winnable, Expert Says
March 5, 2008
Banks Must Recruit Consumers to Fight ID Fraud, Researcher Warns
Wal-Mart Exec Happy with MoneyCard, But Stays Mum on Details
March 4, 2008
Could Free Scanners Unlock Small Businesses for Remote Capture?
March 3, 2008
M-Commerce Spawns New Forms of Money Laundering, U.S. Warns
February 29, 2008
Cardtronics Looks for 2008 Payoff from Former 7-Eleven Vcom Fleet
February 28, 2008
Visa Filing Confirms Heavy Investment in Merchant And Issuer Incentives
February 27, 2008
Smart Card Marketing, HomeATM Enable PIN Debit Online, at Stores
February 26, 2008
Euronet Far from Certain It Will Renew Its Pursuit of MoneyGram
An Acquiring Paradox: Discounts Are Squeezed, But Spreads Are up
February 25, 2008
Visa Looks for a Record IPO in Defiance of Wall Street Headwinds
February 22, 2008
Beleaguered Pay By Touch Looks To Sell Itself in Two Auctions
February 21, 2008
New York-New Jersey Mass Transit Plans Contactless Pilot
MasterCard Cuts Interchange for Rent, Utilities, and Insurance
February 20, 2008
How an Incentive Boom Could Push Visa, MasterCard into Acquiring
February 19, 2008
An APWG Panel Lobbies Web Registries to Shut Down Phishing Sites
With $20.5 Million in Fresh Capital, IPP Prepares To Execute
February 14, 2008
TSYS Joins Rivals First Data, Metavante in Mobile Banking And Payments
Citi Makes a Down Payment on M-Payments with ViVOtech Stake
February 13, 2008
With Internet Hurdles Higher, Fraudsters Pick up the Phone
February 12, 2008
Clear Originator ID for Consumers Is NACHA’s Latest Risk Measure
February 11, 2008
LendingTools Sparks Growth with Image Exchange for Small Banks
Intrigue Envelops Hypercom As It Mulls Ingenico Buyout Offer
February 7, 2008
Eye on Earnings: Quarterly Results at Visa, Fiserv, Jack Henry, Tier
February 6, 2008
10% of Mobile Banking Enrollees Are New to Wachovia, Bank Reports
Hy-Vee Gives Thumbs up to BOC, Works on Chainwide Rollout
PCI Council Streamlines Self-Assessment Forms, Targets Software
February 5, 2008
Fiserv-CheckFree Brings Remote Capture to Online Consumer Banking
February 4, 2008
Report: Merchants Need Interchange Breaks to Adopt Contactless
January 31, 2008
Debit Traffic Now Bigger Than Credit Transactions for MasterCard
A Rapidly Growing PayPal Makes a Big Bid to Beef up Security
January 30, 2008
San Francisco NFC Pilot Tests Rewards As Well As Payments
New Chargeback-Prevention Service Aims To Thwart Friendly Fraud
January 29, 2008
Javien Finds Growth Where Others Failed—in Micropayments
January 28, 2008
MasterCard Streamlines OTA for Its Spokane M-Payments Pilot
Blackstone’s Alliance Data Deal Could Be Latest Victim of Credit Crunch
January 24, 2008
Growth at Spin-offs TSYS, Metavante, But Not All Is Rosy
January 23, 2008
Merchant Signings Help Fuel Fourth-Quarter Gains for PayPal
Banks Face an ISO Challenge in Remote Capture for Health Care
January 22, 2008
Visa Reports Mid-Sized Merchants Are Making PCI Progress
Nova’s Deal for Southern DataComm Gives It a Hospitality Gateway
January 21, 2008
Phishing Sites Proliferate, But Experts Say Help Is on the Way
January 17, 2008
With Alogent, Goldleaf Steps onto the Remote-Deposit Escalator
January 16, 2008
Survey Hints at Role of Free Processing in Rise of Alternative Payments
Global Payments Looks to New Platform for Faster Merchant Integration
January 15, 2008
Ready Credit And CheckFree Get Set to Offer Kiosk-Based Bill Pay
January 14, 2008
Banks Comfortable with Prepaid Cards--Possibly Too Comfortable
Final Numbers Show Robust Increases in Holiday Spending Online
January 10, 2008
Mocapay Readies for a National Rollout of Its M-Commerce Service
A Pared-Down Pay By Touch Takes Bids for 'Non-Core' Units
January 9, 2008
Consumers Want Just One Account for NFC Payments, Survey Says
With Its Fiserv Deal, Viewpointe Sees a Big Year for Image Sharing
January 8, 2008
Citibank’s ATM Restriction Spotlights Rising Withdrawal Limits
January 7, 2008
USA Technologies’ Rental Program Boosts Contactless Vending
January 4, 2008
A Rising Imaging Tide Lifts ECCHO’s Roster Past the 1,000 Mark
January 3, 2008
A Big BOC Processor Looks for Big Growth for the E-Check in 2008
January 1, 2008
EC Ruling on MasterCard Interchange Could Foster Regulation in the U.S.
December 28, 2007
Eye on Gift Cards: A First Data Glitch Strikes the Day After Christmas
December 27, 2007
Some Pay By Touch Owners Are Also Among Its Largest Creditors
December 26, 2007
Online Sales Surge During a Lukewarm '07 Holiday Shopping Season
December 20, 2007
Free of E-Wallets, ECHO Goes to the Altar with Intuit Once Again
December 19, 2007
TJX Settles with Financial Plaintiffs in Breach Case—with One Holdout
December 18, 2007
Survey: Consumers Lost $3.2 Billion to Phishing Attacks in 2007
HomeATM Aims to Bring PIN Debit, Card Present Rates to the Web
December 17, 2007
AmEx Takes a Leaf from Discover’s Acquiring Strategy—with a Twist
A New Web Site Seeks to Broaden the Market for Merchant Portfolios
December 13, 2007
The FTC and Seven States Sue Processor for Aiding Suspect Merchants
Euronet Bids for MoneyGram, And Girds for a Fight If Necessary
December 12, 2007
Google Checkout Extends Offer of Free Processing Another Month
December 11, 2007
Bill Me Later-Amazon Deal Could Be a Huge Boost for Both Parties
Cardtronics Slims Down Its IPO But Gets the Deal Done in Stormy Market
December 10, 2007
PIN Debit And the ACH Among the Big Gainers in Fed Payments Study
December 6, 2007
Back Office Conversion Growth Strong, But Big Gains May Come in ‘08
Survey Shows Heavy Carrier Reliance on Transaction Fees for NFC
December 5, 2007
Study Assails Corrosive Effects of Free Terminals on Acquiring Profits
NACHA Rule Targeted at Cap One’s Decoupled Debit Card, Sources Say
December 4, 2007
New Platform, APIs Let TIO Launch Strategy for Walk-in Payments
December 3, 2007
TJX’s Settlement with Visa Casts Light on Murky World of PCI Penalties
November 29, 2007
18 Months on, Discover Says Its Acquirer Program Is on Target
Under Its New CEO, IPP Maps Big Plans for Walk-in, Online Bill Pay
November 28, 2007
NACHA Tightens Risk Management, Restricts Payment Aggregation
November 27, 2007
Heartland Sues Micros, Chase Paymentech over Restaurant Transactions
Cyber Monday Traffic Soars, But Sites Labor Under the Strain
November 26, 2007
Profit Squeeze, Interchange, and PCI Top Acquirers’ Gripe List
November 21, 2007
Contactless Vending Gains 4,000 More Machines with Latest Pact
An EFT Summit Helps Costco Weigh Options for Web-Based PIN Debit
November 20, 2007
Did Buyer’s Remorse at Cap One Sink the $700 Million NetSpend Deal?
November 19, 2007
With Plug-In, PayPal Looks for Expanded E-Commerce Reach
Embroiled in Boardroom Fight, Pay By Touch Gets a Temporary Boss
E-Commerce Sales Continue to Rack up Double-Digit Gains
November 16, 2007
Saddled with Post-IPO Debt, First Data Shaves Costs with Layoffs
November 14, 2007
E-Commerce Fraud Rate Holds Steady, But Fraud-Control Costs Go Up
Firethorn Chief Says Qualcomm Deal Will Speed up M-Payments
November 13, 2007
AT&T: 10 Million Phones Will Be Preloaded for Banking by End of ‘08
Consumers And Wall Street Yawn at the Biggest Breach Yet
November 12, 2007
Though Still Shaky, a Smaller TRM Gets Closer to Profitability
November 10, 2007
Its Overhaul Complete, Visa Shoots for the Moon with Its Pending IPO
November 8, 2007
A Bill Offers Relief to Merchants Besieged by Suits over Receipts
Retailers Must Do More To Tout Tap-And-Go, Expert Argues
PCI Council: Software Security Guidelines To Be a Standard
November 7, 2007
Before IPO, Visa Reaches a $2.25 Billion AmEx Antitrust Settlement
November 6, 2007
New Fed Pricing Expected to Spur Further Moves to Electronic Processing
Pay By Touch Melodrama Includes Board Fight and Possible Bankruptcy
November 1, 2007
Eye on Earnings: MasterCard, Heartland, Online Resources
Amid Data Thefts, Visa's Software Rules Align More Closely with PCI
Merchants’ PCI Travails Prompt Security Program from Big Blue
October 31, 2007
BSG Extends Its Bill-to-Phone Service to Mobile Commerce
October 30, 2007
Other Shoe Drops As USPTO Affirms Second DataTreasury Patent
The Bell Is About To Ring for an Independent Metavante
October 25, 2007
It's Official: Synovus Will Spin off Processor TSYS in $600 Million Deal
Upon Further Review, Accounts Exposed in TJX Breach Double
October 24, 2007
Phishing Takes a Break As Attacks, Hosting Sites Slip in July
October 23, 2007
With a Grip on Costs, TSYS Continues Its Post-BofA Recovery
By Arming Consumers, a Startup Hopes to Cut Down on ID Fraud
October 22, 2007
Eye on Earnings: Google Checkout Adds More Merchants
October 19, 2007
Third Time Could Be a Charm for BB&T in Mobile Banking
October 18, 2007
Banks Begin to Use SVPCO to Handle Check Images for Client Banks
October 17, 2007
PayPal’s Strategy Bears Fruit As off-eBay Ratio Steadily Rises
October 16, 2007
With Verizon on Board, the Two Biggest Carriers Will Preload Firethorn
MasterCard Opens a PCI Schoolhouse Featuring ‘Tailor-Made’ Sessions
October 15, 2007
Startup Certifies Diebold As First ATM Maker for Prepaid Card System
October 11, 2007
NACHA Close to Recruitment for Test of New Check-ACH Plan
Report: Debit Card Outlook Bright, But Banks Failing on Activation
October 10, 2007
Yodlee Pairs Up with Western Union in Expedited Bill-Pay Play
Startup TrialPay Lets Online Merchants Make Sales out of No Sales
October 9, 2007
Discover Boosts Issuing Prospects Among Banks with TSYS Deal
October 8, 2007
Eyeing the Point of Sale, Bill Me Later Readies Test for Core Service
October 4, 2007
Retailers Challenge the Networks’ Card-Data Storage Requirements
M-Commerce: Why Rollout, Patch Later Is a Dangerous Prescription
October 3, 2007
Merchant Group’s Report to Lawmaker Triggers Interchange Tussle
October 2, 2007
Key PCI Deadline Passes With Half of Big Merchants Compliant
With Volumes Rising, Pulse Joins Trend to Upgrade Fraud Detection
October 1, 2007
Online, Other Factors Beat Costs in Driving Alternative Payments
September 27, 2007
With TigerDirect, Assurz Scores Big And Sets the Stage for Growth
Why Once-Soaring Contactless Payment Has Lost Some Altitude
September 26, 2007
Revolution Money Expects to Gain Traction Early with Merchants
September 25, 2007
It’s Labry up And Bailis out As KKR Completes Its First Data LBO
September 24, 2007
TJX Settlement Leaves the Bigger Card-Security Issues Unsettled
Cellular South Looks to Roll out First Commercial U.S. NFC Service
September 21, 2007
When It Comes to Online Security, It’s All About the Money
September 20, 2007
Discover Adds Chase Paymentech, Says More Acquirer Deals Coming
September 19, 2007
Advice for M-Payments Entrepreneurs: Aim at the Underbanked
A Startup’s Technology Turns ATMs into Prepaid Card Dispensers
September 18, 2007
First Data Cuts Data Centers As Its Road Show Starts
Survey: 42% of Consumers Ditch Online Transactions After a Glitch
September 13, 2007
New Biller Categories, More Vendors Spur PINless Debit Growth
The New Irony of Signature Cards: Good at Fraud, Bad at Risk
September 12, 2007
BancorpSouth out to Show Smaller Banks Can Succeed in M-Banking
After a Delay, NACHA Unveils Interchange, Other Pricing for SVP
September 11, 2007
Sued by FTC, MPI Begins Turnaround, Looks to Expand to Midwest
September 10, 2007
How Cardtronics Could Make Use of $300 Million from Its IPO
September 7, 2007
Why POS Merchants Don’t Buy in to Payment Security
September 5, 2007
M-Banking Will Beget M-Payments, But Not Without Labor Pains
Striking New York City Cab Drivers Want To Drop off Cards
September 4, 2007
Discover Expands Its Gift Card Franchise Through a Big Mall Operator
Google: Don’t Read Too Much into Our M-Payment Patent Application
Phishing Attacks Nearly Hit an All-Time High in June, Report Says
August 30, 2007
How a Software House Sells Remote Capture Directly to Merchants
Diebold Sees Early Interest in Technology Linking Handsets to ATMs
Good Consumers Will Show Up for Good Security Measures
August 29, 2007
NYCE, Fair Isaac Focus on Terminal-Based PIN Debit Fraud Control
August 28, 2007
Pulse Takes Aim at the ACH with New Recurring PIN-less Service
Visa Gets a Boost for Prepaid Partial Authorization from Shell
August 23, 2007
How a Data-Security Debate Is Holding Back NFC Payments
Check 21, BOC Come to E-Commerce Via USA ePay-Digital EFT Deal
How We Have Managed to Turn the SSN into an SOS
August 22, 2007
Why a Small Bank Sees Big Things in College Prepaid Programs
August 21, 2007
Star Fills in Some ATM Gaps With Its New Allpoint Connection
August 20, 2007
Wachovia Milestone Points up Wider Adoption of Remote Capture
August 16, 2007
How Non-Bank ATM Owners Are Culling Subpar Machines
More Contactless Taxis with MasterCard-VeriFone Projects
August 15, 2007
Visa Sets Interchange Penalty Under PCI: A One-Tier Downgrade
August 14, 2007
Turbulent Financial Seas Won’t Sink First Data Buyout, Observers Say
Time to Change the Weird Logic Behind Data Breaches
More Consumers Use Card Sites to Pay Bills, Manage Accounts
August 10, 2007
Deal with First Data, Star Gives Big Boost to M-Banking Startup
August 9, 2007
New IP Commerce Deal Could Open Doors for ISOs, Developers
August 8, 2007
New PayPal Service Shows Retail Credit Has a New Life on the Web
Cap One Extends Debit Reach with $700 Million NetSpend Deal
August 7, 2007
With NCR, FDC Stakes, ViVOtech Sees More Impetus for Contactless
August 6, 2007
Amazon Officially Joins Online Payments Fray with 'Flexible Payments'
August 2, 2007
CheckFree Deal Vaults Fiserv into Front Ranks of Bill Payment, ACH
August 1, 2007
An Online Payments Product Soon? Amazon Refuses to Comment
July 31, 2007
A Startup Prepares a Dual POS/Online Contactless Card
As Shareholders Okay KKR Deal, FDC Insists Buyout Is on Track
Visa Reports Progress on PCI Among Large and Small Merchants
July 30, 2007
How Vending Payments Could Benefit from the Change in Reg E
July 26, 2007
Online Resources’ $45 Million ITS Deal Beefs up Its Biller Business
July 25, 2007
BofA’s Envelope-less ATMs Show Imaging Is Catching on with Users
Early Signs Are Positive for Amtrak’s Wireless POS Devices
July 24, 2007
If It Happens, a TSYS Spin-off Will Add to Industry Overhaul
July 23, 2007
Branded Prepaid Growth Is Lapping That of Private Label, Report Says
Volume Climbs for PayPal, While Some Sellers Will See Fees Rise
July 19, 2007
A House Antitrust Panel Becomes the Latest Interchange Battlefield
July 18, 2007
Visa Starts to Put Small Merchants Under Its PCI Microscope
As Fishy Orders Rise, Startup Plans Product to Manage Online Fraud
July 17, 2007
Eyeing Decoupled Debit Cards, Tempo Begins Wooing Bank Issuers
Card-Based Bill Payments Take Another Step with Billeo Product
July 16, 2007
Image Exchange Hits Its Stride, But Clouds Form on the Horizon
July 13, 2007
Green Dot Begins to Look Like the Go-To Prepaid Reload Network
July 12, 2007
Hypercom’s CEO Steps Down Amid Restructuring Moves
July 11, 2007
PayPal Launches What It Calls a Game-Changer for M-Commerce
July 10, 2007
Patent Office Validates a DataTreasury Image Exchange Patent
Despite a Strong Bench, First Data Picks an Outsider As Its New CEO
July 9, 2007
Contactless Trend Will Wither Without Move to Handsets, Report Argues
July 5, 2007
New Tool Lets Phishers Set up Bogus Sites in a Few Seconds
‘Day of Reckoning’ Beckons As Image Volume Peaks in ‘08
LBO Firms Take Note: Acquiring Is Now a ‘Quite Cyclical’ Business
July 4, 2007
An ISO Sees Tasty Potential in Online Ordering for Fast Food
July 3, 2007
Theft of 2.3 Million Certegy Records Triggers Debate over Inside Jobs
July 2, 2007
Now Independent, Discover Looks to Grow Issuing, Acquiring, Debit
June 28, 2007
Northwest Deal Lets PayPal Gain Altitude in Online Travel Sales
With Coghlan Out, Will Merchant Focus Survive at Visa?
June 27, 2007
With an Eye on EFT, Fidelity Picks up eFunds with a $1.8 Billion Bid
June 26, 2007
The Fed Says Just Four Check Sites Will Handle Paper by 2011
June 25, 2007
Litigation, Divergent Europe Among Risks Visa IPO Faces
Bill Payment Likely to Be a Key Function of Wal-Mart MoneyCard
June 22, 2007
Another Rival for NACHA—with an International Flair
June 21, 2007
Verizon Deal Lends Impetus to Obopay’s M-Commerce Drive
How TransFirst’s New Boss Sizes up the Processor’s Opportunities
June 20, 2007
Seeking More Revenue, Big Banks Get Set to Roll out 11th-Hour Bill Pay
June 19, 2007
Prepaid Eyes the Potential in Consumer Rebates And Incentives
June 18, 2007
ISO Ties Helped Seal CyberSource’s Bid for Authorize.Net
June 14, 2007
Google Checkout Scrubs Its Boston Party After Talks with eBay
PropertyBridge Brings PIN-less Debit to Residential Rent
June 13, 2007
How a Startup Processor Plans to Take on NACHA in Web Payments
June 12, 2007
TJX Confronts Another Big Bill Linked to Card-Data Breach
Targeting eBay Ban, Google Checkout Plans Party to Reach Sellers
June 11, 2007
RBS Set to Compete in the U.S. Market with a Payments Gateway
Will MasterCard Win, Cap One Card Unleash Debit Brand Switching?
June 7, 2007
'Biggest Thing Since PayPal,' Cap One Card Bids for Debit Share
Already a Rocket, Remote Capture Is Set to Shift to Warp Speed
June 6, 2007
Cardtronics’ Latest ATM Deal Hands 7-Eleven a Hefty Payoff
June 5, 2007
Mobile Web Surfers Soar As Payments Players Rev up M-Commerce
As Account-Level Processing Takes Shape, Acquirer Impact Unclear
PayPal Mobile Services Get Major Boost in Internet Retailing
May 31, 2007
USA Technologies And Coke Bottler Strike Biggest Vending Deal Yet
Could the Ceridian Deal Lead to a Comdata-Certegy Combo?
Contactless Usage May Be on the Rise, Reports Suggest
May 30, 2007
Emida-Q Comm Merger Could Expand Prepaid Market for ISOs
Retailers Still Have Long Way to Go on PCI, VeriFone Chief Says
May 29, 2007
MPI Case May Not Be the Last ISO Action, FTC Says
May 25, 2007
PayPal Courts Businesses with Incentives And New Technology
May 24, 2007
The Winding Road That Led to the Pending Metavante Spin-off
Report: M-Banking Set to Soar, Will Lead to NFC Payments
May 22, 2007
End of 50-Day “Go-Shop” Period Leaves KKR As Sole First Data Suitor
MODASolutions Rechristens Its Service, Unveils Buyer Protection
May 21, 2007
Expert: Banks Should Mine Data Troves to Build Merchant Loyalty
May 17, 2007
Eye on Private Equity: Deals for Alliance Data And TransFirst
May 16, 2007
Some Phishing News Not As Good As It Seems, Latest Report Says
Retailers Get Ready To Roll Out FDC’s New Loyalty Platform
May 15, 2007
Credit Card Veteran Saunders Says He’s Hip to Electronic Payments
Image Exchange Hits Key Milestones at SVPCO, Viewpointe
May 14, 2007
Why Synovus Is Optimistic About NACHA’s Secure Vault Payments
May 11, 2007
Processor Plans To Combine Prepaid MasterCards with Phones
Less Hype, More Substance Now Behind M-Banking, M-Payments
May 9, 2007
Approached by Suitors, eFunds Starts a 'Strategic Review'
First Data Plans To Cut 12 Data Centers Down to Three by Mid ‘09
May 8, 2007
How BOC’s Costs Create Opportunities for Check Processors
May 7, 2007
Eye on Image Exchange: Volume Quintuples, SVPCO Gains in April
May 4, 2007
A Startup’s Technology Starts to Accelerate M-Commerce
May 3, 2007
First Data’s ViVOtech Stake Could Pay off for Both Companies
Soaring Debit Traffic Helps Propel Revenue And Profit at MasterCard
May 2, 2007
NACHA Will Soon Unveil Pricing for Its Online Payments Pilot
May 1, 2007
Supreme Court Patent Ruling Won’t Affect Us, DataTreasury Says
April 30, 2007
Banks Are Starting To Go Mobile, But Consumers Are Ho-Hum
April 26, 2007
Tempo Boosts Merchant Base with Its Chase Paymentech Deal
Some PCI Progress, But Visa Sends a List of Non-Compliant Software
April 25, 2007
Visa Hopes ‘payWave’ Will Leverage Contactless Adoption Trends
April 24, 2007
With Carreker in Hand, CheckFree Plans ‘All-Transactions’ File
April 23, 2007
ACH Growth Sparking Membership Surge, NACHA Chairman Says
On Interchange, the NRF Turns to the States, Underscoring Sales Tax
April 20, 2007
With New GM, PCI Council Plans Webinars And Rules Update
April 19, 2007
Chockstone Bought Peppercoin for Card-Linked Loyalty Offerings
Star To Test PIN-less Debit for Online Micropayments
PayPal Logs a Strong Quarter to Cap a New Deal with Yahoo!
April 17, 2007
The Clearing House Prepares for Consumer Use of Payment Codes
Wal-Mart Goes Chainwide with POP in Bid to Cut Payment Costs
April 13, 2007
CheckFree’s Market Grows, But Biggest Customer Could Bolt
April 12, 2007
Visa Hikes Overall Interchange 0.6%, Effective April 14
April 11, 2007
Web Performance Could Help Elect the Next U.S. President
Fraudsters Are Starting to Score Successes Against Online Banking
April 10, 2007
Having Snagged 2Checkout, ATM Direct Aims at More Merchants
April 9, 2007
Processors Report Major Leaps for Image Exchange So Far in ‘07
April 5, 2007
Obopay Says Response ‘Super Positive’ for New M-Commerce Platform
HSBC’s New Rewards Program Could Spark Growth for Tempo
FDC’s Authentication Play Sets It up for Contactless And M-Commerce
April 4, 2007
Citi Expects New Mobile Service to Reach More Than Half of Accounts
April 3, 2007
If Spun off, Would Metavante Remain Independent for Long?
April 2, 2007
‘Barbarians’ Get Set to Take over First Data in a $29 Billion Buyout
March 29, 2007
Scope of TJX Breach Has Some Questioning Attainability of PCI
March 27, 2007
Web Gambling Torpedoes ECHO’s Deal To Be Acquired by Intuit
Eye on M-Commerce: Firethorn, Metavante, ViVOtech, MobileLime
March 26, 2007
Current ACH Risk-Management Proposal To Be Followed by Two More
Morgan Stanley Outlines Risks for an Independent Discover
Recent Breaches Could Be a Bonanza for a Startup Security Vendor
March 22, 2007
POP Continues Its Rebound, But Will BOC Take a Bite?
A Startup Pitches Revenue from Receipt Ads to Merchants
March 21, 2007
Phishing Sets Record As Fraudsters Link Hands Across Borders
March 20, 2007
A Telecom Processor Rolls out Gateway with Online Phone Billing
March 19, 2007
An Investor Letter Sparks a Tussle Between the Terminal Kingpins
Unfazed by Wal-Mart Pullout, Home Depot Presses on with ILC Plans
March 16, 2007
NACHA Greets Debut of BOC with Cautious Expectations
March 15, 2007
Study Finds ‘Pervasive And Increasing’ Fraud in Payments
March 14, 2007
Payments Upstart GratisCard Aims to ‘Eliminate’ Interchange
Image Exchange Kicked into a Higher Gear in January, Stats Show
March 13, 2007
Tight Deadline for New Effort to Standardize Mobile Payments
March 12, 2007
Visa, MasterCard Entry in Reloads May Aid Unbanked, Hike Income
March 9, 2007
Digital Insecurity: No Place Left to Hide
March 8, 2007
Consumers Blame Merchants Most for Card-Data Security Lapses
March 7, 2007
How Pay By Touch Hopes to Use Opticard to Add Merchants, ISOs
Adding QuikTrip, Tempo Payments Pumps Up Its Issuing Ranks
March 6, 2007
Merchant Win on Interchange Would Help And Hurt Prepaid Cards
March 5, 2007
Mobile-Game Sales Rising, But New Content Threatens Growth
Survey: Mass Reissuance May Be Overkill in Merchant Breach Cases
March 1, 2007
A Down-Market Strategy Can Revive First Data—And Maybe the Industry
PayPal Mobile Close to Launching Service for Mobile Web Merchants
February 28, 2007
Visa Chief Lays out Prepaid Plan, Calls for Outreach to Regulators
MasterCard Raises Some Rates, Lowers Others for Web Retailers
February 27, 2007
Police Arrest Four in Stop & Shop Breach As Legislation Looms
February 26, 2007
New Service Launches to Let Cash Customers Pay Online Merchants
February 22, 2007
Getting Over the Inevitability of Alternative Payments
FDC Exits Money Orders As Prepaid Cards, Walk-in Bill Pay Make Gains
February 21, 2007
Fees for Last-Minute Payments Drop As Banks Build Customer Base
TJX Reports Wider Breach, But No Data on Affected Accounts
February 20, 2007
Stop & Shop’s PIN Pad Breach Follows Similar Cases in Canada
February 19, 2007
Community Banks See ‘Survival,’ New Business in Remote Capture
February 16, 2007
A Prosperous Comdata Could Have an Independent Future
The Illogical Battle Between PIN Debit And Signature Debit
February 15, 2007
Some Small Towns Loom Large in Latest ID Fraud Research
February 14, 2007
CheckFree Spends Big for Corillian, But Gains Key Bill-Pay Assets
February 13, 2007
Kabira Courts Acquirers, Networks for New High-Capacity Switch
Discover Taps Motorola’s M-Wallet for Two-City Mobile Test with NFC
February 12, 2007
Long-Time Credit Card Exec Saunders Takes over Embryonic Visa Inc.
February 8, 2007
PCI Council Adds Members, Hires First General Manager
The Industry’s Self-Denial About the Maturing of Credit Cards
Data Breaches Don’t Spur As Much Fraud As Stolen Cards, Other Causes
February 7, 2007
Consumers Want Spotlight on Interchange, Merchant Poll Says
IRD Volume Drops for First Time As Image Clearing Keeps Rising
February 6, 2007
BOC Could Open Merchant Market for Remote Deposit Capture
February 5, 2007
NACHA Announces Two New Fees to Recoup Administrative Costs
February 2, 2007
ACH and Check Image Convergence—A Bridge Too Far
January 31, 2007
Data Security Vendors Unite for Voice in PCI Implementation
January 30, 2007
Microsoft: Any Micropayments System Is Highly Theoretical
Check-ACH Coalition Gives up on Ambitious Plan for Check Processing
January 29, 2007
Under Fire, TJX Defends Its Handling of Card Data Breach
Security Issues Are Eroding Trust in Online Banking, Survey Shows
January 25, 2007
Acquiring Operation Helps Boost Results at a Restructured First Data
The Disruptive Shift to Pay-As-You-Go Payments And Lifestyles
January 24, 2007
PayPal’s off-eBay Push Hits a Wall After Months of Steady Progress
January 23, 2007
Wells’s New Imaging ATMs May Signal More to Come for the Technology
January 22, 2007
Bitpass Shuts Down in Move That May Show Limits of Digital Market
Latest Breach May Force a New Approach to Data Security
January 18, 2007
In Its Latest Offer for Checkout, Google Entices New Users With Bonus
Cost Cutting Helps TSYS Boost Profits After a Tough Year
January 17, 2007
The Corrosive Siege Over Signature-Card Interchange
Online Fraudsters Continue to Churn out Multiple Phishing Sites
January 16, 2007
With Microsoft and H-P, First Data Plugs Into PC-Based Payments
Detroit Takes Deep Plunge Into Card Acceptance for Parking
January 15, 2007
DVD Sellers, Others Find PayPal Mobile Spurs Impulse Sales
January 12, 2007
Visa Hopes Its New Platform Will Speed M-Commerce Trials
January 11, 2007
Hypercom Aims at PC-Based Payments With Its TPI Software Deal
Suddenly, Mobile-Banking Race Heats up As More Entrants Elbow in
January 10, 2007
New Phishing Tool Lets Fraudsters Harvest Data From Legitimate Sites
January 9, 2007
Prepaid Health-Care Debit Cards Get a Boost from Wal-Mart
With Contactless, It’s Faster Payments That Draw Retailers the Most
January 8, 2007
2006 Stats Confirm Strong Advances Made by Image Exchange
January 5, 2007
Chase Paymentech Reaps E-Commerce Gains From Holiday Traffic
January 4, 2007
Early Success at TigerDirect Could Boost SECURE-eBill’s Prospects
January 3, 2007
Invitations for PayPal’s Virtual Debit Card 'Beta' Top 3 Million Users
January 2, 2007
CheckFree’s Carreker Deal Brings It Check 21 Technology, Expertise
December 28, 2006
Merchants Look to Lure Gift Card Recipients As 2006 Wanes
Canada’s Interac EFT Network Sets Record for Debit Card Transactions
December 27, 2006
A Suddenly Revived POP Posts Highest E-Check Growth Rate
December 22, 2006
More Vending Machines, Plus Toll Road, Taking Contactless Payments
December 21, 2006
MasterCard Targets Unbanked With Prepaid Retailer Network
December 20, 2006
Image Clearing Jumps Ahead of Substitute Checks for the First Time
December 19, 2006
Citi’s New York NFC Pilot First Open Test in U.S. Backed by Major Issuer
Wall Street Discovers a New Darling: Payment Card Networks
December 18, 2006
How ECHO Fits Into Intuit’s ‘Single Payments Portal’ Strategy
December 15, 2006
Intuit Offers $142 Million for ECHO To Cap Payments ‘Portal’
December 14, 2006
PayPal Says Monster Signing Sets Stage for ’07 Site Recruitment
December 13, 2006
Rebranded, ClickandBuy Adds an E-Wallet And Phone Billing, Eyes P2P
December 12, 2006
Visa Announces PCI Compliance Carrots to Go Along With Sticks
Spoofed Sites Proliferate As Phishers Seek To Foil Toolbars, Other Filters
December 11, 2006
SMS Aside, Consumers Pan M-Commerce Data Plans on Price
December 8, 2006
Canadian Test in 2007 Foreshadows a National Chip Rollout
December 7, 2006
Co-Op Readies a Credit-Union Entry Into ATM Check Imaging
December 6, 2006
Can Twelve More Months of Free Processing Make Checkout Click?
Seeking More Capacity, AmEx Turns to eFunds for Prepaid Processing
December 5, 2006
Heartland Seeks Banks for ‘Holistic’ Card for Small-Ticket Market
December 3, 2006
DataTreasury Vows USPTO Rejection Won’t Affect Pending Cases
November 30, 2006
Remote Capture May Get a Boost From Intuit’s Digital Insight Deal
November 29, 2006
Visa Champions Fed Proposal on Receipts for Small-Ticket Transactions
Discover Moves Closer to Contactless, But Stays Mum on Plans
November 27, 2006
Sites Fare Well on Cyber Monday After Mixed Performance Friday
Moneris Restores Service After ‘Glitch’ Cuts off POS Traffic in Canada
November 26, 2006
Report: Get Ready for a Sizzling Market for BOC Transactions
November 22, 2006
TIO Plans To Start Hybrid ATM-Kiosk Deployments by Start of ‘07
U.S. Bank Joins Growing List of Banks Testing Contactless Payment
November 21, 2006
MagTek Launches a Company to Pursue Online Authentication
November 20, 2006
Gift Cards, Web Shopping Will Be Big Winners in Holiday Season
AmEx, Metavante Undergird Cigna System for Medical Payments
November 16, 2006
Cingular-Backed M-Payments Service Could Boost Contactless Market
Visa’s Latest Mobile Gambit Tests Info Sent Via Text Messages
November 15, 2006
MasterCard And VeriFone Put PayPass in Philadelphia Taxis
November 14, 2006
Online Resources Starts to Process Online Gift Card Orders
Order-Review Efficiency Rises for Online Sellers, But So Does Fraud
November 13, 2006
MODASolutions Joins the Incentive Parade for Online Payments
November 10, 2006
Metavante Pairs Electronic Bill Pay With Prepaid Cards
Visa Admonishes Merchants To Segment Electronic Traffic
November 9, 2006
Pricing, Retailing Rivalry Likely Led to Sam’s Club’s MasterCard Deal
November 8, 2006
All-Electronic Check Clearing Keeps Rising As Image Exchange Grows
November 7, 2006
M-Commerce Execs Further Dim Prospects for Premium SMS
November 6, 2006
PayPal to Launch Promotion for Express Checkout Merchants
November 3, 2006
A Processor Puts a Different Spin on Back-Office Conversion
November 2, 2006
MasterCard Starts Test in Dallas of NFC Payment With OTA Downloads
November 1, 2006
Debit Traffic Soars at MasterCard While Ticket Sizes Drop
October 31, 2006
Interchange Second Only to Energy Costs on Grocers’ Worry List
October 30, 2006
Check-ACH Coalition Issuing Survey to Help Shape Emerging Proposal
Banks’ ATM Surcharges Hit New Record, As Do NSF Fees
October 27, 2006
Online Resources Gets Princeton eCom Boost, Points to New Products
October 26, 2006
Comdata’s New Chief Looks to Acquisitions To Spur Growth
October 25, 2006
PayPal’s off-eBay Campaign Begins to Register in Its Numbers
August’s Dog Days Brought Some Relief in Phishing Onslaught
October 24, 2006
FDC Spiffs up Merchant Service, Deploys 11,000 FD-100 Terminals
October 23, 2006
First Data Hopes New Box Will Help It Plug Into Smaller Merchants
October 20, 2006
Rewards Account for 44% of Interchange Cost, Report Concludes
October 19, 2006
Operator Deals, NFC Could Help Obopay Stand out in Crowded Field
October 18, 2006
TSYS Battered But Not Broken, Top Execs Say, Citing New Business
Yodlee Aims at Big Adoption for M-Banking, M-Payment Service
October 17, 2006
Visa: Too Early to Tell How Restructuring Will Impact Interchange
October 16, 2006
Content Sales Surge for Qpass As Games, Video Push up Tickets
October 13, 2006
CheckFree Leverages Existing POS Gear for Walk-in Bill Payments
October 11, 2006
E-Retailers’ Appetite for Payments Hikes PayPal, Checkout Acceptance
Market Forces, Including Interchange Cases, Spur Visa to Plan for IPO
October 10, 2006
Debitman Beefs up Issuer Ranks With Wawa, Promises More to Come
October 9, 2006
As Image Exchange Traffic Climbs, More Banks Clear Image Files
TrueMe ID Is a Precursor to Online Payments, Pay By Touch Says
October 6, 2006
No Single Strategy Will Unlock the Pint-Size Payments Market
October 5, 2006
For Now, NFC Payment Hindered by Skeptical Carriers, Expert Says
Ex-Global Payments Exec Cohen Seeks New Growth Channels at Moneris
October 4, 2006
MasterCard Unveils Network-Level, Real-Time PIN-Fraud Scoring
October 3, 2006
Impact of Online-Gaming Law Seen As Mixed for Processors, Banks
October 2, 2006
Eye on ATMs: Pass Code Hacker Fallout, Chase Network Expansion
September 29, 2006
It’s One Step Ahead, One Back for Visa at Dollar General, University
September 28, 2006
New Registry of Security Marks Aims at Thwarting Check-Image Fraud
September 27, 2006
New Super Switch Lets Visa Handle Transaction Growth, Diversity
New Boss of Comdata Acquiring Unit Aims to Move into Top 10
September 26, 2006
Bitpass’s New Platform Supports Downloads, Gives Sellers More Data
September 25, 2006
Tab for E-Commerce Glitches Could Be $60 Billion by 2010
September 22, 2006
Payments Group Plans to Ride Wave Made by New Microsoft OS
September 21, 2006
New Program Links Any Credit, Debit Card to Funds in FSA Accounts
After Some Delay, Check Imaging at ATMs Is Serious Business
September 20, 2006
IRDs Rising, But Image Clearing Is Going up Much Faster, Stats Show
September 19, 2006
Yodlee Heats up Bill-Pay Rivalry with Product That Eases Switching
September 18, 2006
Discover Completes Acquiring Hat Trick, More Processors in Wings
September 15, 2006
Iron Triangle Vaults Acquiring Ranks with Deal to Buy BA ISO Unit
September 13, 2006
Stuck in a Rut, POP E-Checks Get a Boost from Bentonville
September 12, 2006
July Phishing Numbers Bring Mixed News on the Online Fraud
Study Says ATM Deployers Are Changing Tactics As Profits Fall
September 11, 2006
Discover Signs up Global Payments, Is Talking to Other Top 10 Acquirers
The New PCI Council: Does It Have Enough Teeth?
September 8, 2006
Positive Results of Atlanta NFC Pilot Could Spur More U.S. Tests
September 7, 2006
New Council Updates PCI, Looks to Foster Closer Industry Cooperation
Valista Sees New Hosted Gateway As Key to U.S. M-Payments Market
September 5, 2006
MasterCard Will Post Interchange Rates, Cap Fees for Gas Retailers
BankServ Enters P2P, Mobile Payments Business with Magex Deal
September 4, 2006
Will Old Risk to Credit Cards Threaten New ACH Web Proposal?
September 1, 2006
Study Warns of Contactless, Other Rising Risks for Top Acquirers
VeriFone Banks on a Looming Upgrade Market in the U.S. And Canada
August 31, 2006
More Than Six Months Out, the Buzz Builds for BOC
August 30, 2006
Issuers Win And Lose As the Fed Puts Reg E’s Stamp on Payroll Cards
August 29, 2006
Wary or Not, Phishing Continued Its Rapid Ascent in June
Terminal-Based PIN Fraud in Canada Spreads to Toronto
August 25, 2006
Cutting Payment Costs, Wesco Helps Debitman with Issuer Gap
August 24, 2006
My Payment Network Looks for Growth from Resellers, New Clients
Visa Data Show Increasing Penetration of Sub-$25 Market
August 23, 2006
Discover Scores U.S. JCB Transactions in Latest Deal to Open Network
PNC Joins Small But Growing Bank Trend Toward Free ATM Usage
August 21, 2006
PayPal Exec Says eBay Ban Against Google Checkout Is ‘Overplayed’
August 18, 2006
Applying Casino Lessons, Infonox Pushes Savvier ATMs for Banks
August 17, 2006
Barnes & Noble Signing Helps Drive PayPal’s Off-eBay Push
iPayment Logs Low Volume Growth, Though Gas Prices Help
August 16, 2006
FFIEC Clarifies Authentication Guidance, Gets Tough on Deadline
Eyeing Gift-Card Popularity, the OCC Issues Disclosure Rules
August 14, 2006
Processors Begin to Respond to Real-Time Bill-Payment Trend
August 11, 2006
Discover’s Embrace of ViVOtech Hints at Bigger Contactless Plans
August 10, 2006
Online Retailers Get More Precise IP Geolocation Service to Battle Fraud
August 9, 2006
MasterCard Launches Real-Time Substantiation for Health-Benefit Cards
SVPCO Gains More Critical Mass As PNC Joins Image-Exchange System
August 7, 2006
Real Tones Dominate Ring Tone Sales, While Ringback Tone Sales Rise
August 6, 2006
Monthly IRDs Surpass 100 Million, But Electronic Settlement Gains Share
August 3, 2006
Shut out of New Markets, PIN Debit Faces Big Growth Challenges
August 2, 2006
AmEx Cuts Costs But Boosts Marketing with Web Efforts
MasterCard, Post IPO, Swings to a Loss on Extraordinary Items
August 1, 2006
POS Debit Card Usage Continues To Grow, Star Survey Says
July 31, 2006
Prepaid Card Roundup: New Virgin Mobile Card, U. S. Bank Hits Milestone
July 28, 2006
Key MasterCard Deadline Nears for Wireless and IP Terminal Security
July 27, 2006
Adding Princeton eCom Boosts Expedited Payment Plans at ORC
Now Hot, Remote Capture Will Get Hotter with Move ‘Down Market’
July 26, 2006
Most Breaches Occur at Card-Present Merchants, Auditor Data Show
July 25, 2006
First Data Takes Over Banco Popular’s Mainland Merchant File
July 24, 2006
Quarterly Processor Roundup: PayPal, Chase Paymentech, TSYS
July 19, 2006
First Data Readies an ISO Thrust with Unified Pricing, New Terminal
Partisans Square off Again As the Interchange War Moves to the Senate
Big POS Merchants Now Face Stricter PCI Validation Rules
SMS Will Slip to Minority of M-Payments by 2011, Survey Says
July 18, 2006
Discover Scores Exclusive Deal with Fast-Growing Dollar Tree Chain
July 17, 2006
Peppercoin Pursues Opportunity in Contactless, Vending
July 14, 2006
Discover’s First Data Deal May Be Just Its First Pact with Big Acquirers
July 13, 2006
Google Wins Points with Retailers, But Consumer Reaction Unclear
July 12, 2006
41st Parameter Casts a Wider Net for Its Anti-Fraud Technology
Seeing Incident ‘Uptick,’ Visa Issues Security Alert to Small Restaurants
Instant Issuance Builds Momentum, Looks to RFID, Prepaid, Credit
July 11, 2006
Image Volume Mounts Steadily for SVPCO As It Courts Smaller Banks
July 10, 2006
Unfazed by eBay’s Ban, Google Eyes PayPal, Other Payment Methods
July 7, 2006
PCI Expert Cautiously Optimistic As Compliance Rate Looks to Climb
July 6, 2006
How EMC Counts on Mounting Demand for RSA’s Security Products
Swapped PIN-Pad Fraud Pops up in Ottawa, Netting $2 Million
July 5, 2006
End of First Data Net Saga Sets up FDC To Get Payments from Visa
First Biometric Fob for RFID Payment Could Be in Pilot by Year’s End
July 3, 2006
PayPal Prepares for a Two-Phase Rollout of Its Virtual Debit Card
June 29, 2006
Google's Payment Service, Tied to AdWords, Could Be 'Game-Changer'
June 28, 2006
Will 1,000 Philly Coke Machines Usher Contactless into Vending?
Pressure Builds in Congress To Address Data-Security Breaches
Survey: Online Payment Alternatives Could Tap $14 Billion in Missed Sales
June 27, 2006
Yodlee Takes Its Web-Based Approach Beyond Online Bill Payment
June 26, 2006
Visa, U.S. Chamber Launch Multi-City Data-Security Tour
June 22, 2006
Wachovia Exposes Latest Card Fraud, But More Banks Likely Ensnared
June 21, 2006
With New Web Service, Xoom Targets the Giants of Money Transfer
Tech-Savvy Scheme Loots Millions from Montreal Debit Accounts
Chase Adds Contactless Technology to 1.8 Million Visa Debit Cards
June 20, 2006
Observers Split over How Much Google Will Compete with PayPal
June 19, 2006
An Online Boom: Phishing Numbers Hit New Highs in May
June 16, 2006
Networks Begin to Make a Case for Cards at Vending Machines
June 15, 2006
Retailers Say, ‘Show Us the Fines' on PCI, E-Commerce Exec Says
June 14, 2006
BidPay Re-launches with New Pricing, Chargeback Policy
Verizon Looks to POS System to Cope with Rising Walk-in Payments
June 13, 2006
E-Retailers’ Order-Review Logjams Create a New Software Market
June 12, 2006
Banks Should Pick up the Phone for Bill Payments, Experts Assert
June 9, 2006
Alternative Payments Are Gaining Online, But Not All Retailers Are Sold
June 8, 2006
ISOs And NFC Specs Lend Impetus to Contactless Payment Trend
June 7, 2006
A Busy ATM Direct Looks to Add Another Network, More Online Retailers
Growth Spurt Has SVPCO Eyeing 100 Million Monthly Items by Year’s End
June 6, 2006
CyberSource Bids to Relieve Online Retailers’ PCI Headaches
June 5, 2006
ATM Direct Scores First EFT Network for Web-Based PIN Debit
June 2, 2006
Swiped Laptops Now a Threat in Data Breaches Plaguing Payments
June 1, 2006
How Endpoint Exchange Is Riding the Rising Image-Exchange Wave
May 31, 2006
Report: M-Gaming Will Top $3 Billion in North America by 2011
The Fed Unveils More Check Closures As Volumes Continue to Drop
May 30, 2006
National City Begins Selling ‘Non-Personalized’ Visa Travel Card
Yahoo!’s New Pact with eBay Promises More Payments for PayPal
May 26, 2006
An ACH-Image Proposal for Checks Roils Banks And Networks
May 25, 2006
Phishing Takes Another Sharp Turn in the Wrong Direction As Sites Soar
May 23, 2006
Merchants Hit MasterCard IPO on Anticompetitive Grounds
Debitman’s HSBC Deal Could Help It Corral More Merchant Issuers
MobileLime Recruits First ISO in Effort to Sell Merchants Nationally
May 22, 2006
Valista Gears New Software Release to M-Payments Trends
May 19, 2006
A Boom Is Building in FSA Debit Cards, But Challenges Remain
May 18, 2006
Online Bill Payments Show Big Gains, But Some Fret over Security
Tiny LendingTools.com Has Big Ambitions for National Image Exchange
May 17, 2006
Wal-Mart Claims Its Bank Could Stop Transactions for PCI Non-Compliance
May 16, 2006
Newly Private iPayment Logs Profit Jump, Points to CardSystems Fallout
May 15, 2006
ECOM Finds Issuer for Anonymous, Disposable Prepaid MasterCard
May 12, 2006
Home Depot: No Designs on Payments with Deal to Buy ILC
Small Banks Adopt a Wide Spectrum of Electronic Payments
May 11, 2006
Key Issues Nag NACHA As It Nears Internet Payments Pilot
May 10, 2006
ORC Chief Says Princeton eCom Play Will Help Build Scale
Image Volume Ramp-up in ’06 Beats SVPCO’s Own Projections
NACHA Chairman Looks to Retry NREF, Will Push Internet Payments
May 8, 2006
NACHA Approves Back Office Conversion of Point-of-Sale Checks
May 5, 2006
Patent in Hand, Yahoo! Moves Toward a P2P Payments Product
May 4, 2006
Heartland Drives up Net with Expanded Merchant Base, Card Volume
May 3, 2006
In Wake of Big PIN Breach, Visa Tightens Debit-Fraud Controls
May 2, 2006
As Its IPO Awaits, MasterCard Logs Strong Results, Names Directors
Survey: Youth Market Not Sold on Mobile Payments, After All
May 1, 2006
Eye on RFID: Utah Transit, Arby’s Plan for Contactless Payment
April 27, 2006
MX Telecom Looks for Rapid Growth in SMS-Based Mobile Payments
April 26, 2006
A BankAmericard Redux Poses Risks But Could Reap Rewards for BofA
Phishing Hits Record Levels As Malware, Redirectors Proliferate
April 25, 2006
PCI’s POS Costs Slow Retailer Adoption, Terminal Exec Says
April 24, 2006
First National Merchant Solutions Shifts Toward ISOs for Growth
AmEx Discount Revenues Grow, but Rate Continues To Slip
April 20, 2006
First Data’s Profit Dips, Though Merchant-Unit Results Climb 24%
PayPal Racks up Double-Digit Growth, But Still Relies Heavily on eBay
April 19, 2006
Coghlan Tells ISOs Visa Will Be More ‘Flexible’ and ‘Responsive’
TSYS CEO Says Processor Will Build on Ties to Defecting Clients
ATM Surcharges, Number of Banks Assessing Them, Rise Again
April 18, 2006
Biller Sites Dominate Online Bill Pay, But Bank-Site Users Pay More Bills
Eye on Acquiring: TSYS Rechristens Vital; VeriFone-RBS Lynk Deal
April 14, 2006
Workers with Bank Accounts Help Drive Payroll Card Growth
April 13, 2006
No Visa Incentive Just for Contactless, But One May No Longer Be Needed
April 12, 2006
ViVOtech Boss Predicts NFC Will Soon Enable Payments for E-Retailers
April 11, 2006
NACHA’s Web Payment Pilot to Start by Early ’07, Run 12 Months
April 10, 2006
VeriFone Gains Wireless-Terminal Strength with Lipman Acquisition
Debitman’s New CEO Stresses More Merchants, Issuers, And Products
April 7, 2006
FastLane Launches Its POS Advertising Program with a $2 Million Deal
April 6, 2006
Looking to Mass NFC Usage, MasterCard Tries Over-the-Air Downloads
PayPal Mobile Launches with Five Merchants, More in ‘Pipleline’
April 5, 2006
SVPCO Swaps More Images in First Quarter Than in All of 2005
New Merchants Will Fuel Contactless Growth, But Trouble Lurks
April 4, 2006
Citigroup Will Brand 5,500 7-Eleven ATMs in Surcharge-Free Deal
March 30, 2006
Seven Are Nabbed in Big PIN Hack Case, with More Arrests Coming
March 29, 2006
Mobile-Video Demand Mounting Fast, But Right Pricing Model Is Elusive
March 28, 2006
ATM Roundup: BofA's New Mall Machines; Triton Shipments up 21%
March 27, 2006
Report: Remote Deposit Capture Is More ‘Talk’ Than ‘Action’ for Now
Phishing Blasts, Web Sites Soar at Double-Digit Rates in January
March 24, 2006
Discover Claims Retailer-Friendly Debit, But Details Remain Murky
P2P Market Is Nice, But PayPal Mobile May Have to Reach Merchants
March 22, 2006
Fujitsu Does Damage Control While Utility Software Gains Attention
Pay By Touch Looks for ‘Network Effect’ from Chicago Concentration
March 21, 2006
More Aussie Retailers Plan Surcharges for Credit Card Payments
March 20, 2006
NACHA’s New Web Product Could Unleash Strong Bank Competition
March 17, 2006
First Data’s Bailis Ponders His Strategy for Debit Cards, Services
March 16, 2006
Consumers Put Cap on What They’ll Pay for Wireless Song Downloads
Huge Hack Threatens to Cool off Torrid Growth of PIN Debit Payments
March 15, 2006
NACHA Starts Drive to Sign up Participants for Web-Payment Pilot
March 14, 2006
Back-Office Conversion To Get a Vote Soon, May Start in September
March 13, 2006
Losses Could Top $1 Billion from Debit Card Hack, Hurting PIN Debit
March 10, 2006
Google Could Be Weeks Away from Launching a PayPal-Like Service
March 9, 2006
A New Tactic Aims at Thwarting Efforts to Shut Down Phishing Sites
March 8, 2006
As Banks Reissue Debit Cards, Experts Warn of More Compromises
Nokia Pilots Indicate User Willingness to Pay for Mobile TV Channels
March 7, 2006
SVPCO Hits 1 Million Mark in Average Daily Items for Image Exchange
March 6, 2006
Chase Rolls out a Prepaid Visa for Low-Income Tax-Refund Recipients
March 3, 2006
Single-App Terminals Help Drive Financial Results for VeriFone
March 2, 2006
Why Info Touch Sees Benefits in 40-ATM Pilot with Cardtronics
U.S. Encode Readies a CD/Mag-Stripe Card for Online, POS Use
March 1, 2006
Survey Shows Sizable Opportunity for EBPP in P&C Insurance
February 28, 2006
Google’s Payments Moves Excite Comment, But May Not Threaten PayPal
February 27, 2006
How Interchange Wars Are Lending Impetus to Instant Issuance
February 24, 2006
Early Signs Look Good for Back-Office Conversion in NACHA Comments
February 23, 2006
The FTC Puts One Security Compromise to Rest, But More Await
February 22, 2006
Cardtronics Reports Lower Net in Part on Faster Retail Deployment
MobileLime Announces A New NFC Platform for Cell-Phone Payments
Metavante Appoints New Health-Payments Chief, Looks for Big Growth
February 20, 2006
Report: Transaction Kiosks Will More Than Double by 2009
February 17, 2006
Small-Bank Demand for Remote Capture Leads to New Hosted Service
February 16, 2006
Inconsistency Threatens Contactless-Payment Rollouts, Expert Warns
February 15, 2006
Interchange Caps Not Wanted, C-Stores Chief Tells Congress
February 14, 2006
December Brought No Holiday Cheer to Those Fretting over Phishing
February 13, 2006
Heartland Buys Debitek, Pushes Deeper into Small-Value Payments
Discover Unveils a Signature Debit Card, Though No Issuers Yet
February 10, 2006
Could Merchants Use POS Readers, M-Wallet to Skirt Interchange?
February 9, 2006
SVPCO: Costly IRDs Are Now Just 20% of Image-Exchange Volume
Motorola Looks to Start Commercial M-Wallet Service by Summer
February 8, 2006
A Processing Exec Outlines Practical Steps to Save on Interchange
February 7, 2006
SVPCO Reports Another Month of Steady Build in Image Volume
February 6, 2006
Pay By Touch Enters the Race to Offer Payments to Web Merchants
February 3, 2006
Retailers’ Interchange Suits May Help AmEx More Than Merchants
February 2, 2006
Interchange Cases To Yield Consolidated Complaint in 60 Days
February 1, 2006
Top Exec at the New Chase Paymentech Sees Smooth Transition
January 31, 2006
SMS-Based Promotions Fuel Grocer’s Interest in Cell-Phone Payments
Citi Will Issue Contactless Tokens for N.Y. Mass Transit Test This Spring
Seeking More Issuers, Debitman Finds Two Among the Supermarkets
January 27, 2006
SECURE-eBill Starts to See U.S. Merchant and Consumer Adoption
January 26, 2006
Click&Buy Will Expand Online Payment Options to Phone Bills April 1
Investors Smile on First Data’s New Look, Western Union Spin-Off
January 25, 2006
Rapid Growth Puts Acquiring at 25% of Sales for Gateway CyberSource
January 23, 2006
Settlement with NCR Positions DataTreasury to Move into ACH and Cards
Mobile Processor Qpass Vaults $1 Billion in Premium Content Sales
January 19, 2006
With Some Network Help, ShopNBC Cuts Its Prepaid Card Losses
PayPal Ends ’05 with a 40% Jump in Traffic As Accounts Boom
January 18, 2006
With GE Consumer Finance, AmEx Claims Seven Bank Card Issuers
TSYS CEO Upbeat Despite Pending Loss of BofA Consumer Accounts
A Startup Readies a Payments Network Based on Driver’s Licenses
January 16, 2006
Phishing Trends Take an Ominous Turn As Malware Incidents Rise
January 13, 2006
Accelitec Lays Technical Groundwork for PayPilot Expansion in ‘06
January 12, 2006
In an Ironic Twist, Free Terminals Could Hike Payment Software Sales
Online Merchants, Issuers Begin to Respond to SecureCode Incentives
January 11, 2006
Online Banking Falls Short in Identity Fraud Prevention, Study Shows
January 10, 2006
SVPCO Closes First Year of Image Exchange with 52 Million Items
January 9, 2006
Accounting-Software Firm Sage Buys ISO Verus for $325 Million
January 6, 2006
Could Labry Move to Merchant Unit Presage a Breakup of First Data?
ATM King Cardtronics Sees Further Expansion Via Bank Deals in ‘06
January 5, 2006
BitPass Expands Micropayment Functions with Yaga Acquisition
January 4, 2006
Visa Reports $257 Billion for ’05 Holiday Season, with a Dec. 23 Peak
January 3, 2006
Nearly Three Years Later, Merchants Begin to Get Wal-Mart Payouts
December 28, 2005
CEO Daily Succeeds in His Pursuit of Merchant Processor iPayment
December 23, 2005
Nokia Says Look for New Phone, Busy Stores in '06 NFC Payment Pilots
December 21, 2005
TextPayMe Aims Its Nascent Cell-Phone P-to-P Service at Web Markets
In a Busy Day, BofA Says Yes to AmEx Network And No to TSYS
Holiday Card Spending Ramps up in Stores And on the Internet
December 20, 2005
Phishing E-mail Volume Sets a New Record After a Summer Swoon
Citi Will Begin Issuing Credit Cards on AmEx's Network By Month's End
December 16, 2005
ATM Direct Says It Will Test PIN Debit on the Web Next Year
Digital Defense Group Set to Launch a Fingerprint-Secured RFID Card
December 14, 2005
Atlanta NFC Pilot, And Others, Will Lead to Late '06 Commercialization
December 13, 2005
BitPass's New CEO Hints MSN Deal Could Be Just the Start with Microsoft
December 12, 2005
Pay By Touch Closes in on 'Biometric Proxy' for PIN in Debit Payments
Corillian Looks to Sell Banks on Least-Cost Routing for Bill Payments
December 9, 2005
Velocita, TNS, Pepsi Aim at Profits Via Wireless-Vending Payments
December 8, 2005
SVPCO Says 8.8 Million Images Make It No. 1 Private-Sector Network
First Integrated Mobile Terminal for E-Check Acceptance Coming Soon
December 7, 2005
PassMark: RSA-Cyota Deal Endorses Software-Based Authentication
December 6, 2005
Feuding Rivals Pay By Touch, BioPay Merge to Spur Biometrics
December 5, 2005
Survey: Interest in Micropayments Rising Fast Among Consumers
December 2, 2005
PayPal's Small Bite of Physical Stored Value May Herald Bigger Things
December 1, 2005
ATM-Owning Banks Earn $4.3 Billion As Surcharges Hit Record High
Is the 'Dirty Little Secret' of NSF Revenue Hiking Signature-Debit Profits?
November 29, 2005
Back at First Data's Helm, Duques Faces Major Growth Challenges
November 28, 2005
Shareholders OK MasterCard's Plans for a Public Stock Offering
E-commerce Sites Build Volume, Pass Critical Performance Tests
November 25, 2005
BioPay Looks for Big Year for Biometric Payments in 2006
November 23, 2005
Absence of Fee Break Could Hinder RFID's Penetration of Cash
November 22, 2005
E-Commerce Sales Jump 26.7%, Reach Record Share of Overall Retail
November 21, 2005
Phishers Grow Bolder, More Inventive, in Stealing Online Data
Visa Says Gas-Price Relief Is Helping Drive Pre-Holiday Spending
November 18, 2005
PayPal’s Off-eBay Merchant Efforts Hit Paydirt with Dell Signing
Corillian Integrates Strong Authentication in Software, Services
November 17, 2005
CheckFree Takes a Networked Approach to Payments Fraud
November 16, 2005
Study: PIN Debit Cheaper, Less Fraud-Prone Than Signature
November 14, 2005
Credit Union 24 Moves to a New Switch As It Looks to New Services
Debitman Signs up Wal-Mart, Courts Grocers As Interchange Suits Fly
November 11, 2005
Card-Based Bill Payments Rise As Billers Bow to Consumer Demand
November 9, 2005
E-Commerce Fraud Losses Rise As Big Sellers Get Hammered
First Data Ponders Options for Its Shrinking Card-Issuing Business
November 8, 2005
QSR, Internet Show Strong Gains in Pre-Holiday Visa Card Activity
November 7, 2005
iPayment CEO Sweetens His Offer, But Cautions Company's Board
David Slays Another Goliath in Check-Imaging Infringement Cases
November 4, 2005
BioPay Chief Sees Flaws in Rival's CardSystems Strategy
November 3, 2005
Wachovia Cuts MBNA Ties As MBNA Shareholders OK BofA Deal
Survey: Retailers Still Falling Short in Consumer Data Security
NACHA Sets Rules to Tell Business Checks from Consumer Checks
November 1, 2005
MasterCard Reports Debit Increase Nearly Triple That of Credit
First American Buys Govolution, Enters Booming Bill-Pay Market
October 28, 2005
Is Peppercoin Eyeing Opportunities in Hot Contactless Market?
TransFirst Looks to Buy a Bill Processor to Create Card-Based Service
October 27, 2005
Chase Brings Contactless Payments to the Northeast Corridor
October 26, 2005
Federal Regulators Get Behind Strong Online Authentication
October 25, 2005
Survey: Popularity Propels Gift Cards into Consumer Mainstream
Volume Grows for AmEx, As Does Dependence on Acquiring
October 21, 2005
PayPal Stuck at About 70% in eBay Volume, Though Accounts Boom
Data Breaches, State Laws Drive Encryption Business for Ingrian
October 19, 2005
PayPal Will Use VeriSign's Gateway to Plunge Deeper into Acquiring
Britain's OFT Says Visa's Interchange Pricing Is Anti-Competitive
October 18, 2005
How Pay By Touch Plans to Rely on CardSystems' ISOs to Ramp up Fast
October 17, 2005
Pay By Touch Trumps Bid from CyberSource for CardSystems
October 14, 2005
Expedited Bill Payments Grow at Double-Digit Rates, Go More Electronic
October 13, 2005
Phishing E-Mails Fell, But Phishing And Malware Sites Rose, in August
October 12, 2005
Study: Signature Debit Fraud Runs 15 Times Higher Than on PIN Debit
October 11, 2005
Businesses Favor Interchange Caps, Agree with Suits, Survey Shows
October 10, 2005
PayPal Will Pay $370 Million to Buy VeriSign's Payments Gateway
My Payment Network Looks for Big Growth from Niche Web Markets
October 7, 2005
Paymentech-CMS Combo Creates Huge Acquirer—with Potential Pitfalls
October 5, 2005
JPMorgan, FDC Agree on Long-Awaited Paymentech-CMS Combo
Amazon.com Could Start Accepting WEB ACH Payments This Month
ReD Confirms Rumor It Is Seeking to Buy a Related Business
October 4, 2005
Publix Joins Retailers Suing Visa, MasterCard over Interchange
October 3, 2005
Metavante Makes Government Move with Deal for Link2Gov
September 30, 2005
One Year After Check 21, Image Exchange Still Relies Heavily on IRDs
Wal-Mart Says POP a Success, but Uncertainty from Fee Holds It Back
September 29, 2005
In Wake of CyberSource Deal, Visa Postpones CardSystems Ban
September 28, 2005
New Research Unveils Big Challenges for Mobile Content Market
September 27, 2005
'Aggressive' About Image Exchange, National City Watches Volume Climb
September 26, 2005
Another Interchange Suit Seeks Sweeping Reform of Fee-Setting Mechanism
September 23, 2005
CardSystems Deal Could Catapult CyberSource High into Acquiring Ranks
September 22, 2005
With Rita Looming, Pulse Moves Switch to Data Center in Dallas
Rising Demand for Strong Authentication Helps Propel KBA Vendor Verid
September 21, 2005
Hannaford Finds PIN Debit Is Now As Expensive As Checks
Report: Patent Case Threatens to Cripple U.S. Prepaid Wireless Market
September 19, 2005
Metris Will Issue Credit Cards on Discover's Network by Year's End
September 15, 2005
I4 Commerce Reports Bill Me Later Growth, Looks to Debit, Prepaid in '06
September 14, 2005
ECOM Readies an Anonymous Prepaid Card for Web and Point of Sale
New Online Processor GreenZap Looks to Credit Card Funding for Growth
September 13, 2005
HSBC Joins the Ranks of Issuers of Contactless Debit Cards
September 12, 2005
New Viewpointe CEO Buglioli Hints at Services Beyond Image Sharing
September 11, 2005
Report: Prepaid Cards' Growth Will Pressure Money-Transfer Nets
September 9, 2005
Can PayPal Make Big E-Commerce Gains with Micropayments Initiative?
September 7, 2005
Cardtronics' ATM Network Doubles While Surcharge Margin Sags
Good News: Phishing Incidents Decline. Bad News: Malware Use Is up
September 6, 2005
Processor TransFirst Links with E4X to Offer Currency Conversion
MasterCard to Appeal U.K. Interchange Ruling, While Visa Could Be Next
September 2, 2005
UATP Opens Its Network to Third-Party Internet Payments Processors
September 1, 2005
Irked by Card Costs, Gasoline Exec Says It's Time for Interchange Cap
MasterCard's IPO Could Let Retailers Boost Their Bank Card Clout
August 31, 2005
PayPal Moves into Micropayments with New Cut-Rate Pricing
August 30, 2005
Peppercoin Processes Cell-Phone Parking Payments in Las Vegas
Chase Brings 'Blink' to Loyalty Cards with Contactless United Card
August 26, 2005
VeriFone Reports Strong Quarterly Results and New Multi-Lane Terminal
August 25, 2005
ORC Looks to Three PIN-less Debit Pilots This Year, Eyes Stored Value
A Gasoline Retailers' Group Asks Congress for Interchange Relief
August 24, 2005
ORC Plans Pilot of Merchant Database to Intercept Chargebacks
Citi Plans to Roll out 2.5 Million PayPass Key Fobs for RFID Debit
August 23, 2005
Strides by e-onlinedata Raise Profile of ISOs in E-Commerce Processing
August 19, 2005
RSA Survey Shows Rising Interest in Strong Authentication
C-Sam Touts 'Wallet' Software to Spark Mobile Payments in the U.S.
August 18, 2005
SVPCO Gears for Growth with New Automated Settlement Service
August 17, 2005
Losses to Phishing Less Than 1% of All Fraud on PIN Debit, Report Says
August 16, 2005
Accelitec Looks to Rising Interchange to Help Sell New RFID System
August 15, 2005
Paymentech-CMS Merger Positions JP Morgan Chase As Processor
August 12, 2005
Top Australian Bank Regulator Defends Interchange Regulation
Scoring Models Get Results, Make Gains with Online Merchants
August 11, 2005
The Dark Side of Stored Value: Bad Debt for Web Retailers
August 10, 2005
How Kabira Is Using Beefier Memory to Drive Big Changes in Processing
FDC May Emerge As Bigger Winner in Merchant Deal with Citi
August 8, 2005
CheckFree Reports Double-Digit Growth Trend in E-Bill Delivery
August 4, 2005
Some Experts Question Gartner's $2.75 Billion Debit Fraud Estimate
August 3, 2005
Wal-Mart’s Bank Creates Uncertainty for Banks As Well As Processors
How CardTronics Is Leveraging Co-Branding to Make ATMs Pay
August 2, 2005
Data-Breach Cases Begin to Spawn Legal and Regulatory Fallout
MasterCard Stats Show Continued Double-Digit Rise for Signature Debit
Survey: Gift Cards Are Growing in Popularity As Customer Incentives
July 28, 2005
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Argue Kendall Won't Sink Their Interchange Cases
Hacking Incidents Are a Boon for Payment-Industry Gumshoes
Fiserv Gains New Bill-Payment Assets in $350-Million BillMatrix Deal
July 25, 2005
Debitman Readies a Stored-Value Card for a Late '05 Launch
AmEx: So Far So Good with MBNA, Though It's Still Early in BofA Deal
July 24, 2005
CyberSource Volume Jumps 47%, While Acquiring Expands Fast
iPayment Board Rejects $38-Per-Share Offer from CEO As Undervalued
July 21, 2005
Rivals Look to Gain New Merchants in Fallout from CardSystems Case
July 20, 2005
Volume Growth Slows but Processing Efficiencies Rise at PayPal
July 19, 2005
Visa Terminates CardSystems, Move Could Kill Processor
July 18, 2005
Iron Triangle's Wimsett Succeeds Higgins at Retriever
PayPal And eBay Tell Sellers They'll Have to Take Card Payments
Small Fry, Such as Credit Unions, Now Increasingly Hijacked by Phishers
July 15, 2005
MasterCard, Banks May Not Be off Hook in Latest Interchange Case
July 14, 2005
Webpay's Click&Buy Maps Strategy for Major U.S. Expansion
July 13, 2005
Visa Chief, Top Merchant Official Could Meet As Early As September
U.S. Wireless Subscribers Exceed Landline Hookups for the First Time
July 12, 2005
Coghlan's Olive Branch Not Likely to Bring Retailer-Friendly Change
July 11, 2005
Former Schwab Exec Succeeds Long-Time Visa Chief Pascarella
July 8, 2005
Processor BitPass Looks at Direct Payments for Sub-$5 Digital Goods
July 7, 2005
How DataTreasury Could Become a Toll Collector in Check Imaging
Plunging Check Volumes Will Cool off ARC Growth by 2008, Report Says
Star Survey: Consumers Prefer PIN, While PIN Fees Are Less Frequent
July 6, 2005
Small Company Sues Big Banks, Wins Big in Check 21 Technology Cases
July 5, 2005
41st Parameter Gets Set to Roll out More Potent Anti-Phishing Software
July 1, 2005
Merchants Misunderstand How Interchange Works, Former Visa Exec Says
June 30, 2005
AmEx And MasterCard Could Be Losers in BofA-MBNA Deal
June 29, 2005
Merchants Suing on Interchange Seek Major Reform of Fee System
Samid: More Major Data Hacks Could Happen Without Legislation
June 28, 2005
A Preliminary USPTO Decision Supports ReD in Patent Dispute
PayPal Seeks Higher Small Merchant Share with New Product
June 23, 2005
Card-Data Thefts Increase Jitters Among Online Consumers
United Bank Card Rolls Out New Weekly Bonus Payouts for ISOs
Small Merchants File Class-Action Antitrust Case Against Interchange
June 22, 2005
AOL Seeks Less Costly Payments, But Eschews PIN-less Debit
June 20, 2005
PayPal Launches New E-Commerce Service, Holds Tongue on Google Plans
CardSystems Breach Could Lead to Tougher PCI Enforcement
June 17, 2005
New Merchant Coalition to Focus on Education About Interchange Costs
Moneris Looks to Big Growth with Internet Debit Payments
June 16, 2005
Prepaid Card Issuers Seek an 'Edge' by Linking to Banking Products
June 15, 2005
Star Plans to Extend Check Conversion to Bill Payments Later in '05
June 14, 2005
Visa Enables Merchant Campaigns Customized to Single Cardholders
June 13, 2005
Seeking Portfolio Expansion, I.C.E. Signs First ISO in New Program
June 10, 2005
Members Reject NACHA's Return-Fee Proposal, But NACHA Still Backs Idea
Eyeing a Big Opportunity, ReD Expands into Bill Payment with ARC
June 9, 2005
Efunds Moves into Stored-Value Processing with WildCard Acquisition
June 8, 2005
Colorado Becomes Latest Market in Chase's Contactless Rollout
CheckFree Will Pilot PIN Debit for Walk-in Bill Payments
June 6, 2005
AmEx Begins National ExpressPay Rollout, Signs 7-Eleven for Acceptance
June 3, 2005
Valista Looks to Strong U.S. Growth in Wake of Partnership with IBM
June 2, 2005
MasterCard Lifts the Veil on Acquiring Rules for ISOs, Other Nonbanks
June 1, 2005
Chase Merchant Makes a Play for More Bill-Payment Business
Following Synovus, Viewpointe Expects More Banks to Sign Soon
May 31, 2005
Ring-Tone Market Jumped 6% Among Mobile Users in April
Key Makes Agent-Bank Deal with Genpass, While TNB Links to Star
May 26, 2005
Number-One E-Banker BofA Adopts Two-Factor Authentication
May 25, 2005
Electronic Transaction Inroads Force Another Fed Check Closure
Former Viewpointe Chief Lettko Eyes Big Potential at ProxyMed
May 24, 2005
Chase Says Its New Blink Card Will March Through Atlanta First
Certegy Sells 14,000-Merchant Portfolio to Nova Information Systems
May 20, 2005
C-Stores Adopting RFID Have Priorities Besides Interchange Costs
May 19, 2005
Microsoft Readies New Software to Handle ID, Payments on the Web
Chase's Big Bet on Contactless May Hinge on Merchant Adoption
May 18, 2005
Valista Adds Payments Software to Handle Multi-Seller Content Deals
May 17, 2005
Did Investors' Failure to Understand ISO Business Lead to iPayment Offer?
Bad Web Sites Could Be Driving Card Customers to Costly Call Centers
May 12, 2005
How US Bank's Genpass Deal Could Expand No-Surcharge Networks
May 11, 2005
United Bank Card Will Use $44 Million from Optimal to Support Growth
May 10, 2005
Mother' Day 2005: It Was More Than Cards And Flowers Online
The Fed Says Its Check Volume Will Drop Again in '05—by 15%
May 9, 2005
New Members Help Fuel Record Growth for Credit Union 24
May 6, 2005
New Study Decries Interchange Caps, Favors Merchant Networks
May 5, 2005
First Data Deal Helps Drive Doubling of Business at iPayment
May 4, 2005
Why Ritz Camera Decided to Adopt PayPass Throughout Its Chain
May 3, 2005
Phishing Perks up in March As Fraudsters Target More Brands
May 2, 2005
New | |