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OAK BROOK, Ill.–The Midwest Acquirers Association is forming local chapters to bring together acquiring-industry employers and prospective employees, provide members with payments-industry information, and share tips on selling and promoting payment services.

Google Inc.’s new mobile payment system puts pressure on Isis, the wireless carrier-backed joint venture trying to develop a competing system.

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A federal district court judge ordered a marketing operation to pay more than $3.7 million as part of a contempt case for violating a 2008 court order.

The new person-to-person payments company launched by three top banks may not be a PayPal-killer, but experts say the clearXchange venture is a clear threat to the dominant bank-focused payments services.

Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Wednesday announced the launch of clearXchange, a person-to-person payments service that will let their customers send money directly to each other using an email address or mobile phone number.

Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to debut a person-to-person payments service on Wednesday that lets customers send money to each other with an email address or mobile phone number, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Hoping to stimulate fresh interest in one of its relatively newer cobranded products, First National Bank of Omaha on May 24 unveiled enhancements to its Overstock.com MasterCard credit card introduced in September.

Payroll card providers may be missing an opportunity by failing to reach out enough to small businesses, new survey data suggest.

As consumers become more comfortable with such technologies as unlocking a car from inside the house to recording movies remotely they are becoming more interested in using mobile phones for payments, survey data from MasterCard Worldwide suggest.