Merchant

VeriFone Systems Inc. soon plans to test delivering lottery tickets through payment card terminals in taxis, at gas station fuel pumps and other locations, the terminal maker announced Feb. 29.

A partnership between First Data Corp. and CardSpring to create open redemption platform called OfferWise is more about making physical payment cards intelligent than it is about generating digital wallet use.

Now that PayPal is rolling out its point-of-sale payment system to all Home Depot Inc. stores, the payments company must make sure its terms are good enough to keep its most prominent retail partner happy.

PayPal Inc. is expanding its pilot with Home Depot Inc. and in the process, introducing its digital wallet to a new national audience.

First Data Corp. has launched OfferWise, a platform designed to make redemption of digital coupons and loyalty rewards easier for merchants and consumers, the company announced Feb. 28.

German payments processor B&S Card Service GmbH plans to implement Payware TCS, a software-management component of VeriFone System Inc.’s Paymedia Universal Acceptance Platform, to manage applications centrally on merchant payment terminals, VeriFone announced Feb. 28.

Fresh off working with Google Inc. in merchant pilots testing its mobile wallet last year, VeriFone Systems Inc. says it is ready to expand its own wallet-acceptance service and software to all wallet providers, mobile networks and merchants.

Details trickling out about new monthly network-participation fees Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide plan to charge merchant acquirers hint at complex negotiations going on behind the scenes.

For a digital wallet to work, the merchant’s point-of-sale system should have the same applications as the phone supporting the wallet. To ensure that consistency, VeriFone Systems Inc. says its Paymedia universal acceptance platform will make that connection regardless of wallet provider or mobile network, the terminal maker announced Feb. 26.

Meade and Associates, a collection agency based in Westerville, Ohio, next month will begin trying to collect an estimated $900,000 in unpaid lunch money from nearly 6,000 Columbus (Ohio) City Schools students.