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The payments processor Total System Services has signed an agreement with KBC Bank Ireland to launch the bank's debit card portfolio in Ireland.

Nutmeg State FCU has launched a new "Banking Awesome" campaign.

LevelUp founder Seth Priebatsch could barely contain his excitement when discussing the possibilities of Google Glass, a mobile device built into a headset that Google sells only to a limited number of early adopters.

ERIE, Penn. – Widget Financial, known until recently as Erie General Electric CU, launched its new Widget Kidz Zone at the Millcreek Mall with several “super heroes” on hand and a meet and greet with Nathan Kress, best known as Freddie Benson from Nickelodeon’s iCarly.

SHELTON, Wash. – Peninsula Community CU has partnered with CUSO Financial Services, L.P. to provide wealth management services to its members.

Retailers are bombarded with new mobile payment methods. Many merchants chose to move forward with two or more new technologies rather than bet their future on just one mobile wallet.

Google Glass, a headset built by Google to be the next big mobile device, doesn't do much yet. But its features open new possibilities to companies like Square, LevelUp and PayPal as they seek to take over the point of sale.

The mobile billing company Boku and entertainment giant Sony now allow consumers in the U.K. to purchase content from Sony's PlayStation Store by adding the charges to their mobile phone accounts.

BOSTON – A federal appeals court denied a request from Albert Gonzalez, the one-time government informant convicted of stealing into the data bases of TJX Cos., Heartland Payment Systems, BJ Wholesale Club, Hannaford Bros. and several others of the nation’s biggest retailers, effectively upholding a 20-year prison sentence he agreed to as part of a 2010 plea deal.

The Chicago Transit Authority is planning an August launch for its new fare system that will allow retail and fare payments from the same card.The open standards fare system is called Ventra and was developed through a partnership between Cubic Transportation Systems, MasterCard and First Data. With it, Chicago transit riders can pay for fares on the city's elevated trains (called the "L"), buses and subway that are all operated by the CTA, as well as suburban bus line fares for routes operated by a separate transit authority called Pace.