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• Risk-management and compliance-service provider Coalfire has acquired Veris Group, a specialist in testing and engineering services for cybersecurity. Terms of the deal were not announced.
• POS Portal, a point-of-sale equipment distributor, said it now is certified by the PCI Security Standards Council as a point-to-point encryption version 2 key injection facility. Risk-management company Coalfire provided the assessment services to POS Portal.
• The Electronic Funds Transfer Association released the third part of a three-part white-paper series on user authentication.
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Chase Card Services unit launched a Web site called “Credit Journey” that aims to help consumers understand their credit scores and how to improve them.
• Mobile-ticketing platform Atom Tickets announced an arrangement with iHeartMedia to give away thousands of movie tickets every Friday for a year through iHeartMedia’s radio stations and digital venues. The campaign starts tomorrow.
• Visa Inc. said it added 20 merchants to its roster of sellers that accept the Visa Checkout online and mobile-payment service.
