Stephanie Bell

DimpleDough Inc. will provide TxVia Inc. with a prepaid management service it can offer its customers. The Independence, Ohio, company will integrate its service into TxVia's software-as-a-service platform so the New York electronic payments provider may resell the service.

The banking industry's fraud protection initiatives are having an effect in the U.K., as fraud losses related to payment cards, checks and online banking decreased last year, according to research by the U.K. Payments Council.

Many consumers still are not familiar with the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act and many say it has had no effect on them, a survey concluded.

Hoping to increase overall loyalty, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is adding credit cards with rewards based on the consumer's relationship with the bank.

Fifth Third Bancorp is planning to add bill payment to its mobile banking service using technology from ClairMail Inc.

Cartera Commerce Inc. has integrated Groupon Inc.'s daily deals into its merchant network to enable consumers to earn rewards by purchasing a Groupon deal.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has dropped the foreign-transaction fee on its Continental Airlines Presidential Plus MasterCard credit card — the second cobranded airline card from which it has recently removed the 3% fee.

The San Rafael, Calif., mobile banking vendor ClairMail Inc. has begun offering an alerting service that it says will allow banks and consumers to respond more quickly to fraudulent transactions.

The "just add iPhone" variety of mobile card readers, originally pitched as a compromise for small merchants that do not want or need a full payment terminal, is maturing as a viable payment option for merchants worldwide.

Doxo Inc. has announced the first biller to accept payments through doxoPAY, the bill-management website it launched this month.

MasterCard Inc. has announced plans to bring passcode-generating display cards to U.S. consumers. The Purchase, N.Y., company recently tested and introduced the cards in Europe and Asia.

The cards, recently tested in Europe and Asia, function and look like normal magnetic stripe cards, with the addition of a built-in display that generates a one-time passcode.

The loyalty rewards management company Points International Ltd. and PayPal Inc. have started a partnership that lets Points.com members redeem airline miles for funds they can deposit into their PayPal account.

CardSmith LLC said it will support a new card program at Southwestern Oregon Community College.

To cater to people who do not have an Apple Inc. iPhone or Google Inc. Android smartphone, TD Bank has introduced a mobile banking and bill-pay application for Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.

NuVision Networks Corp. has upgraded its campus card program suite to let students and faculty order from participating local shops online using their card's closed-loop prepaid account.

North Alabama Bank said it will use ACH Federal's automated clearing house processing services to support its business customers.

Visa Europe and Wireless Dynamics Inc. are teaming up to offer a mobile contactless payment service for iPhone users in the U.K., employing a system that closely resembles what Visa Inc. is testing in the U.S.

First Data Corp. has expanded its agreement with Getin Noble Bank SA of Warsaw, Poland, to include card-issuing and payment processing services for the bank's contactless card program.

EBay Inc. has said that the proposed limits on debit card interchange fees should not immediately harm its payments operations.