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Intuit is making Inuit Pay generally available in the UK, enabling businesses to accept credit and debit payments in person and over the phone.

The company’s new iPad app can perform many of the same functions as its iPhone app, such as accepting PayPal and swiped card payments. The iPad app is being targeted at businesses that require hardware more robust than an iPhone to accept payments, yet don’t have a point-of-sale system.

In an interview with PaymentsSource, Cohen describes the opportunities that arise for companies like Merchant Warehouse amid the rapid changes taking place in the payments industry.

Independent sales organizations and agents can use automated clearing house and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services.

Carrier-integrated mobile payment provider BilltoMobile will handle payments for NCSOFT Corp.’s online games in North America.

A shareholder lawsuit alleges current and former VeriFone executives made false and misleading statements about the company's financial performance to artificially inflate the stock price—duping unsuspecting investors and allowing executives to cash in millions of dollars' worth of stock.

Belt Valley Bank is small even by community bank standards—it's got about $62 million in assets and 18 employees. But it has the tools to compete directly with the likes of Square for accepting payments on mobile devices.

PayPal's recent updates to its software tools for developers provide a clue to its long-term plans for the Card.io, the mobile payments tech provider PayPal bought last year.

Doug Bergeron's departure as CEO of VeriFone comes at a time when the point of sale terminal manufacturer disclosed that it has engaged in business dealings with Iran that may have been prohibited by recently enacted sanctions against the Middle Eastern country, as well as a recently filed shareholder lawsuit alleging securities fraud.

Doug Bergeron will step down from his roles as CEO and a board member at VeriFone, effective March 12, the point of sale terminal maker said today.

Just three months after reaching 500,000 users, LevelUp hit one million customers, with a meaningful portion of that new audience attracted by adapting the company's offer system to work over Facebook.

PayPal’s most recent updates to its tools for programmers reflect a desire to simplify the process of integrating with mobile apps and other new channels.

Michael Duffy, president of Chase Paymentech, passed away Thursday night. He was 54. Dan Charron, the executive vice president of client services, has assumed the role of acting head of the Dallas-based merchant acquirer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase.

Vacation property rental companies and bed-and-breakfast operators will now be able to accept online payments as they book clients through cloud-based WebReserv.com.

Many times, marketing constraints can slow financial institutions' rollout of Fiserv's SpotPay card readers. Fiserv's new spotpay.com website addresses this concern without compromising the vendor's mission of offering the device almost exclusively through banks and credit unions.

A relationship between McDonald's Corp. and Seamless allows consumers in Sweden to pay for their fast food with their mobile phones.

PayOne's lawsuit against Home Depot over its use of PayPal's point of sale payments technology is not the first legal battle PayOne has pursued with an entity tied to PayPal — and, the company says, it may not be the last.

Noting a series of “self-inflicted” issues that have hampered the company's performance, VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron promised a series of overhauls at the payments technology provider, including a renewed focus on research and development and better management of the resources dedicated to creating country-specific configurations of its products.

Teaching legislators how electronic payments work could help protect the industry from unwise regulation, according to speakers at the Southeast Acquirers Association annual conference.

JPMorgan Chase will assume ownership and begin servicing the AirTran-branded credit card in April, a move that consolidates Southwest Airlines’ two frequent flier cards under the same issuing bank, amid the ongoing combination of the two airlines’ operations.