Technology

National Processing Co., a Louisville, Ky.-based merchant acquirer, announced July 26 plans to resell integrated point-of-sale payment software made by Datacap Systems Inc.

Hypercom Corp. last week announced a deal in Sweden in which a taxi company in Stockholm is deploying 1,600 of its Optimum M4100 “Blade” payment terminals.

CreditCall Ltd. is developing a mobile-payment application to enable merchants to accept secure chip-and-PIN transactions on Blackberry and other smart phones, the United Kingdom-based payment processor announced last week.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is in talks to sell its credit card payment processing unit, valued at as much as $3.8 billion, to Advent International Corp. and Bain Capital LLC, two people with knowledge of the matter said Friday according to a Bloomberg report.

The state of Meghalaya in India has set up an online system consumers may use to pay direct taxes, an official from the state’s financial ministry tells PaymentsSource.

MetaBank has announced its joining of the automated clearing house system NACHA.

Cardtronics said it is redeeming $100 million of 9.25% senior subordinated notes as part of a refinancing that will reduce debt and interest expenses.

Efforts to grow internationally appear to be paying off for Total System Services Inc., as are indications the economy is improving.

With another strong quarter under its belt, EBay Inc. plans to position its payment unit, made up of PayPal Inc. and Bill Me Later, as a global leader in online payments and to expand its presence across Asia, John Donahoe, eBay president and CEO, told analysts July 21 during a conference call to discuss second-quarter earnings.

SCHAUMBURG, ILL.–Square Inc., a startup company offering mobile point-of-sale payment-acceptance services, is willing to talk to merchant services sales agents and other distributors, but just not yet, according to the company’s CEO.