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Hypercom Corp. announced today that its Wymix personal-identification-number pad has received MasterCard Worldwide PayPass certification, that French retailer Intermarche has installed Wymix PIN pads with contactless readers as part of a Near Field Communication trial in two sales outlets and that PayLife Bank GmbH will deploy Artema mobile-payment terminals in Austria.
AT&T Inc. and Firethorn Holdings LLC, a provider of mobile-commerce applications, have launched a mobile-banking application for Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
Global Payments Inc. has promoted James G. Kelly to president and chief operating officer and Joseph C. Hyde to international president. The company also has hired David E. Mangum as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Microbilt Corp., a Kennesaw, Ga.-based risk-services company, says it introduced this week a reseller program for independent sales organizations to sell to merchants that includes services such as skip tracing, credit reports and criminal and court records searches.
