Upcoming Conferences
6th Annual Mobile Banking & Commerce Summit
June 10-12, 2012
Westin St. Francis
San Francisco, CA
7th Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum
June 13-15, 2012
Westin St. Francis
San Francisco, CA
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Alliance Data's Niche-Retailer Strategy Driving Private-Label Card Success
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012Private-label credit card issuing still has plenty of room for growth, if Alliance Data Corp.'s recent wins among niche retailers are any indication.
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TSYS Unveils Its Mobile 'Agenda'
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012Total System Services Inc. wants to put itself in a position to take advantage of growth in mobile payments and banking.
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PCI Council Issues Mobile Reader Fact Sheet For Merchants
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012Merchants can find out if their mobile card readers have approved security features by checking a new fact sheet from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.
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Fraud-Prevention Service Helps Florida Credit Union Cut Its Losses
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012A regional credit union in Florida burned a few years ago by high counterfeit card losses says it has cut its actual losses to one-third what they were before deploying a fraud-prevention service earlier this year.
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Bahrain Petroleum Launching A Prepaid Card For Motorists
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012Motorists in Bahrain soon will have a new way to pay for their fuel thanks to one of the country’s largest fuel retailers, which launched a smart prepaid card May 14.
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Ottawa Joins List of North American Cities Supporting Mobile Payments For Parking
PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012Ottawa, Canada, has joined a growing list of North American cities supporting mobile payments for parking.
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15 Years In, Less Than Half Of World's Payment Cards Are EMV-Compatible
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012Some 15 years after the first EMV chip cards appeared, less than half of all payment cards worldwide conform to the EMV chip card standard, underscoring the slow, gradual speed EMV card deployments generally require.
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Card-Tokenization Vendor Shifts Gears, Seeks ISOs
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012A tokenization services vendor has shifted its emphasis from the core to the edge of retailers’ computer systems and is seeking independent sales organizations to promote its product.
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Smart Card Alliance Forms An NFC Council
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012Widespread adoption of Near Field Communication technology may take years, but the Smart Card Alliance continues to spread the word as it works to grow merchant and consumer acceptance.
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Banking Groups Move To Develop Mobile Payment Tech Standards
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012Banks are making moves to take a bigger role in shaping worldwide mobile-payments technology standards as momentum in the sector builds.
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Bangladesh ATM Networks Expand In Underserved Areas
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012Bangladesh's ATM penetration is less than one-tenth the world average, but a new partnership between Wincor Nixdorf and ITC Ltd. is helping to address the gap by rolling out new machines in underserved areas of the country.
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99Bill Launches Square-Like Device In China
PaymentsSource | May 15, 201299Bill Corp. is targeting Chinese small and midsize businesses in its launch of a Square-like smartphone payment card reader, the Beijing-based third-party payments provider announced last week.
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Visa And MasterCard Facing Credit Card Challenge In Canada
PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012Canada’s Competition Bureau, an independent law-enforcement agency set up to ensure the country’s businesses and consumers are treated fairly, is seeking to remove some Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide rules regarding merchants’ ability to offer alternatives to credit card use and interchange.
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Russia’s Alfa-Bank And Rosbank Sign Surcharge-Free ATM-Sharing Deal
PaymentsSource | May 14, 2012Alfa-Bank and Rosbank earlier this month merged their ATM networks as the Russian financial institutions looked to compete with Sberbank, the country's largest bank.
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India’s Cardholder Spending Up, But Will It Last?
PaymentsSource | May 14, 2012Concerns over the country’s slowing economy may be overstated, new payment card spending data suggest.
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