Will Wade

The processor Global Payments Inc. has agreed to sell its money transfer unit to a private-equity company to focus on acquiring.

In an effort to increase its sales abroad, the payments technology vendor ACI Worldwide Inc. has acquired Euronet Essentis Ltd., a U.K. provider of card issuing and merchant acquiring software.

HSBC Merchant Services has agreed to offer its merchant clients in the United Kingdom 37,000 payment terminals from the French vendor Ingenico SA.

MasterCard Inc. has introduced a mobile payments service designed to link consumers, carriers and banks around the world.

Tempo Payments Inc. said Monday that Dogster Inc. is offering affinity debit cards using its network.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union has agreed to become the first credit union to issue American Express cards to its members.

Westpac Banking Corp. is planning to distribute thousands of payment terminals from Hypercom Corp. to merchants in Australia.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has renewed a contract to offer merchants and banks remote capture services using technology from transmodus Corp.

NCR Corp. is adding two-sided printing capability to its SelfServ automated teller machines.

Fiserv Inc. is planning to develop a person-to-person transfer service that its bank clients could offer through their Web sites to consumers.

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The automated teller machine and self-serve kiosk maker NCR Corp. has purchased the assets of Netkey Inc., a provider of kiosk digital signage management software.

The online banking software provider iPay Technologies LLC is planning to offer its clients bill-presentment services, using data from CashEdge Inc.

NCR Corp. is back in the manufacturing business. The automated teller machine company said Thursday that it has opened a manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ga., as part of its new headquarters campus; it announced in June plans to move from Dayton, Ohio, and open a plant.

The online banking technology provider Online Resources Corp. moved into the black in the third quarter, despite a decline in revenue because of weak transaction volume.

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said Thursday that it has bought Pemco Technologies, a provider of payment processing technology for credit unions.

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Rapadev LLC has expanded its mobile payment acceptance software to work with Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.

The Redwood City, Calif., company said Wednesday that people who want to make purchases within online game systems can enroll their Obopay accounts to facilitate the transactions without leaving the gaming sites.

Anticipating a protracted recovery, small-business owners are pulling back their spending, according to Discover Financial Services.