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Merchant Acquiring

• Ottawa Joins List of North American Cities Supporting Mobile Payments For Parking

  PaymentsSource | May 16, 2012

  Ottawa, Canada, has joined a growing list of North American cities supporting mobile payments for parking.

• Prima Payments To Distribute PaySecure For Phoenix Managed Networks

  PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012

  Phoenix Managed Networks has secured the services of a Canadian payments company to distribute routers and software for its PaySecure fraud-prevention service, the payment network services provider announced May 15.

• 15 Years In, Less Than Half Of World's Payment Cards Are EMV-Compatible

  PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012

  Some 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.

• Card-Tokenization Vendor Shifts Gears, Seeks ISOs

  PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012

  A 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.

• 99Bill Launches Square-Like Device In China

  PaymentsSource | May 15, 2012

  99Bill 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.

• Card Forum Overview: Payments’ Future Destinations Unclear

  PaymentsSource | May 14, 2012

  ORLANDO–If the annual Card Forum and Expo staged here last week were a car on a family trip, attendees played the roles of restless kids in the backseat asking, “Are we there yet?”