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The mobile bank account provider Simple will soon offer Braintree's mobile payment system, Venmo Touch, to its users.

In the age of big data and social connectivity, it is essential, and now urgent, for card marketers to find a way to become more consumer-centric in their marketing efforts.

By July 2008, when Apple introduced the app store as part of the new iPhone 3G, the idea of mobile payments had largely flopped. The app store gave payments companies a second chance at creating the mobile wallet — but many still stumbled along the way.

Visa has entered agreements with more than 40 Australian banks to offer customers the V.me digital wallet for online shopping — a mere three months after MasterCard debuted its MasterPass digital wallet in Australia.

Banks and payment networks are pressing state lawmakers to bar retailers from charging customers more to pay with credit cards than with debit cards or cash.

BBVA Ventures, the corporate venture arm of BBVA Group, is investing in SumUp, a company that enables mobile devices to accept card payments.

CloudPassage, a cloud infrastructure security provider, is offering to address Payment Card Industry security standard compliance for cloud-based businesses.

Ferhan Patel has become the chief compliance officer for Payza, an online payments and electronic wallet provider.

First Data Corp., led by former JPMorgan Chase & Co. co-Chief Operating Officer Frank Bisignano, hired the New York-based bank’s former Chief Information Officer Guy Chiarello as president.

One Hour Translation, which touts its expertise at translating documents from over 70 languages, is no expert at translating payments across different currencies. For that, it needed help from BlueSnap.