News Archive

February 9, 2010


	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