Merchant

Thales e-Security Inc. and Aconite have joined forces to make smart card transactions more secure, whether from an EMV card or mobile device.

Visa Inc. is asserting that the acquiring industry has had sufficient notice of the card brand’s new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee, which takes effect April 1.

China UnionPay plans to expand acceptance of its Quick Pass contactless payment technology to more retail locations, buoyed by its popularity among young and trendy customers in Mainland China.

A deal announced last week with Discover Financial Services would help expand use and acceptance of RuPay among residents of India's urban communities, officials from the National Payments Corp. of India tells PaymentsSource.

Heartland Payments Systems Inc. is expanding merchant payment-acceptance flexibility and enhancing customer convenience by making its Mobuyle platform compatible with Apple Inc. iOS mobile devices, the company announced March 12.

There’s a scene in “The American President” in which Richard Dreyfus, who plays Robert Rumson, a senator and presidential challenger to Michael Douglas’ President Andrew Shepherd character, speaks with a potential donor in New Hampshire. Having won her support, the Dreyfus character proclaims “I’ll be taking that money off your hands right now.”

The Electronic Transactions Association is pressing Visa Inc. to postpone the April 1 starting date for the new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee.

The Electronic Transactions Association is urging Visa Inc. to postpone the April 1 starting date for the new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee.

Discover Financial Services is partnering with the National Payments Corp. of India, part of the company’s ongoing effort to increase card acceptance abroad by teaming with local networks.

LAS VEGAS–The U.S. may look like a ripe field of opportunity to some international vendors of EMV card technology and related services as the world’s largest remaining magnetic stripe card market slowly begins a five-year conversion to chip technology.