Merchant

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.

"Shopping is boring," says ShopSavvy CEO John Boyd. His company is working with Capital One to turn the stale process of buying a product off the shelf into an eventful experience built around a mobile wallet.

First Data is providing the technology that underpins Foursquare's recent enhancements to its deals service, which allows credit and debit card holders to link their accounts to Foursquare's social network.