Fintech

Issuers exempt from the regulatory caps on debit card interchange are exploring the chance to grow their business-debit initiatives, stealing customers from larger rivals that now see such programs as unprofitable.

CreditCall and ChipCap separately announced new readers that handle chip-and-PIN payments from cards that use the EMV standard.

FIS announced new agreements to deploy and manage more than 5,500 ATMs in India over the next two years.

Eagle One and SERVCO FCUs have opened a joint branch in the Rhawnhurst section of Northeast Philadelphia.

Target Corp., which earlier this year took its credit card portfolio off the market because of a lack of suitable offers, appears to be getting closer to securing a deal.

The rumor mill is catching fire as Apple nears its next product launch. Changes to the iPhone, iPad and other systems could affect initiatives at many payments companies.

Dunkin' Donuts likes to brag that its coffee beats Starbucks in a national taste test. Now it aims to beat its rival in mobile payments as well.

In a week's time, the mobile payments world was turned upside down as Square announced a major partnership with Starbucks and a radically different pricing option for merchants. Now payments providers are beginning to piece together how they can ride this wave instead of getting crushed underneath it.

ATLANTA – Several credit unions here partnered to offer free gas at a local Shell Station.

Square is taking a bigger bite at the small-business market by offering flat-fee processing to small merchants, furthering the company's efforts to present itself as a more full-featured option for card acceptance.