Card Briefs: Federated Stores Renews Pact with 5th Third Unit

Midwest Payment Systems, a division of Fifth Third Bancorp., said it has renewed its contract with Federated Department Stores Inc. and extended it to cover Macy's stores.

Midwest Payment Systems has processed credit card transactions for the Cincinnati-based retailing corporation since 1980. Federated operates 412 department stores with 119,000 employees in 33 states.

Midwest Payment Systems processes more than 1.7 billion electronic banking transactions per year for some 1,100 financial institutions and 18,000 merchants.

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