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By Karen Epper Hoffman A fixture in online gaming, virtual currencies are moving into other digital markets and may break into the physical world. But will acceptance costs and regulatory concerns stymie their growth? Virtual currency has long been seen as little more than the …
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The Age of Offers
Startups and established companies alike are betting that consumers obsessed with daily deals could jump-start mobile payments. But it may take a while for that bet to pay off. By Jane Adler Rewards redemption with a mobile device at the point of sale isn’t a …
Read More »Networks: From Tomorrow to Today
By Peter Lucas The ACH hasn’t had a substantial change to its settlement windows in years. With the Fed offering same-day clearing and NACHA starting a rule-making process, that’s changing. But is it changing fast enough? Same-day clearing and settlement of transactions through the automated …
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Read More »By Going Directly to S1’s Shareholders, ACI Hopes to Scuttle Fundtech Deal
ACI Worldwide Inc.’s effort to acquire rival payments-software firm S1 Corp. took a more hostile turn on Monday when ACI said it will go directly to S1’s shareholders, asking them to scuttle a proposed merger between S1 and Fundtech Ltd. The move by Elkhorn, Neb.-based ACI, spelled out in …
Read More »A New Alphabet Soup, VARs and ISVs, Spells An Effective, But Expensive, Channel for Acquiring
Merchant acquirers once relied on independent agents, direct sales, and agent bank relationships to sign up merchants. Now, a new group has entered the picture and is accounting for a rapidly increasing share of new merchant accounts. Value-added resellers and independent software vendors will enroll 15% of all new …
Read More »ACI Announces a $540 Million Bid for S1, Casting a Shadow over S1’s Fundtech Deal
In a surprise development that has the potential to scuttle a merger agreement between payments-software firms S1 Corp. and Fundtech Ltd., ACI Worldwide Inc. on Tuesday announced a cash-and-stock bid valued at $540 million to acquire its Atlanta-based rival S1. If the deal is consummated, it will combine two …
Read More »Isis Now Counts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, And AmEx As Network Partners
Rebounding after abandoning plans to build a proprietary merchant network, the Isis mobile-payments joint venture of three leading telecommunications companies on Tuesday said it had enlisted the support of the four major general-purpose card networks in the U.S. The announcement marks an advance by the venture backed by AT&T, …
Read More »Prospects Brighten for Same-Day ACH As Software Emerges And NACHA Eyes Rules
Faster clearing and settlement of automated clearing house transactions, hampered by a host of issues and limitations, could be picking up some momentum, albeit slowly. Software is emerging to allow both large and small financial institutions to take advantage of a nearly 1-year-old Federal Reserve service that clears transactions …
Read More »Security Notes Strategic Security: It’s Worth the Effort!
Gideon Samid / Gideon@AGSgo.com What is a strategic security analysis (SSA) when it comes to payments and banking? It is essentially a matrix where each row identifies a credible attack scenario and each column lists a counter-action available to us. At the intersection of each column with each …
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