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• Apriva Deal Expands SparkBase Gift And Loyalty Card Acceptance

  PaymentsSource | March 19

  Gift and loyalty services company SparkBase says its deal announced this week with Apriva will expand the potential number of merchants that can accept SparkBase products. [FREE]

• Thieves Steal National Store Chain’s PIN Pads

  PaymentsSource | March 18

  Thieves stole an undisclosed number of PIN pads from Hancock Fabrics Inc. stores, replacing them with counterfeit terminals that illegally captured customer card data.

• Fifth Third Plans Data-Encryption Rollout With Voltage Security

  PaymentsSource | March 18

  Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC later this year will roll out an advanced payment-data encryption technology platform for its merchant clients developed in conjunction with Voltage Security Inc., the processor said on Wednesday.

• Back To School

  ISO & Agent | March 18

  Many agents were reluctant to spend time and funds to receive additional industry training when the economy was healthy, yet more agents are seeking education during the recession to improve their abilities to better compete for scarce business during more difficult financial times, observers note. [FREE]

• Chase Paymentech Extends Card-Not-Present Fraud Detection To All Customers

  PaymentsSource | March 17

  Chase Paymentech LLC this week announced plans to extend its offer of fraud-detection services for card-not-present transactions to all of its merchant customers later this year.

• USA Technologies Touts Network Links

  American Banker | March 17

  USA Technologies Inc. said Thursday that more than 71,000 vending machines and other self-serve systems are now linked to its payments network.