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Two executives who helped found CoCard Marketing Group LLC have left the Nashville, Tenn.-based independent sales organization to start their own ISO with what appears to be a unique ownership structure based on shareholding for participating offices. “Our company is going to be based on shares of stock,” says …
September, 2011
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8 September
U.S. Treasury Electronic-Benefit Campaign Gears up As Checks Dwindle
Nearly nine months after introducing a rule requiring recipients of Social Security and certain other benefits to switch from checks to electronic deposit, the U.S. Treasury Department says the number of check recipients has dipped below 9 million for the first time in decades. The agency is now in …
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8 September
In a Good Omen for Mobile Payments, Location-Based Services Attract Handset Users
n A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Washington, D.C., has found that about 20% of U.S. adults uses a smart phone to access a location-based service or a so-called geo-social site, or a social network in which the user “checks in” with his or …
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8 September
Report Predicts How the U.S. Terminal Base Will Migrate to EMV and Mobile Payments
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7 September
VeriFone Looks to Services And Mobile Payments for Growth
North American sales were flat, but leading U.S. point-of-sale terminal maker VeriFone Systems Inc. still posted a 21% increase in revenues on the strength of its international business in the quarter ended July 31, and profits jumped 42%. Fresh from its August acquisition of long-time rival Hypercom Corp., VeriFone anticipates …
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1 September
Consumers May Not See Much Durbin Benefit from Card-Not-Present Merchants
n Some 41% of card-not-present merchants responding to the survey at the Direct Response Forum’s annual conference earlier this month said they do not intend to pass on lower debit card costs to consumers, according to results announced on Thursday by the DRF. Fully 56% said they don’t know …
August, 2011
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31 August
Tablet Computers Deliver a Bigger Bang Than Smart Phones for the M-Commerce Buck
As manufacturers scramble to develop tablet computers to challenge Apple Inc.’s dominant iPad, findings from an electronic-commerce services firm suggest payments companies looking for new transaction volume through mobile devices would be smart to do everything they can to encourage consumers to buy things on the iPad and its …