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NCR Corp. is launching a mobile point of sale consulting service.

The checklist for routine maintenance on the three automated teller machines owned by First Community Bank and Trust of Beecher, Ill., contains one head-scratching item: the maintenance worker is regularly required to take a photo of the machine to keep on file at the $147 million-asset bank as a defense in potential lawsuits. Now Greg Ohlendorf, the bank's chief executive officer, can cross that mundane task off the list.

Cezar Butu of Romania, who pleaded guilty to taking part in hacking terminals at hundreds of U.S. Subway sandwich shops from 2009 to 2011, was sentenced this week to 21 months in prison.

It's been more than two months since Lower Manhattan was engulfed by flood waters from Superstorm Sandy and many merchants are still without the ability to accept credit and debit cards.

InComm, the prepaid and transaction services company, purchased Giftango Corp. to expand its e-commerce gift card services.

Global Payments Inc. has "essentially completed" its data intrusion remediation efforts and will soon have its response to last year's massive breach of merchant and consumer card data reviewed by the major card networks—the final step before it can return to the networks' list of approved PCI-compliant vendors, according to executives of the Atlanta-based merchant processor.

The Alabama Crimson Tide is the unquestioned king of college football. And two banks are trying to muscle in on the glory.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., is rolling out a prepaid debt card.

The Federal Reserve reported Tuesday that consumers remained cautious with credit card spending in November but took on more debt to attend school and purchase cars.

Banking on its brand and reputation for handling and transporting money securely, The Brink's Co. plans to enter the payments industry with a prepaid payroll card during the first quarter of 2013.