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A growing number of mobile payments companies are promoting systems that charge purchases to users' phone bills rather than credit or debit cards.

Four out of five U.S. households with Internet access now bank online, suggest the results of a Fiserv Inc. survey released May 25.

Four out of five U.S. households with Internet access now bank online, suggest the results of a Fiserv Inc. survey released May 25.

After undergoing several consumer pilots and tests with European banks, Visa Europe’s new CodeSure payment card is now available for commercial launch. The card provides cardholders additional security when making online purchases by generating single-use numeric codes.

Mega Cabs Pvt. Ltd. plans to begin accepting credit card payments in its fleet of taxicabs in India later this month, an official from the New Delhi-based cab operator tells PaymentsSource.

FICO, the provider of the ubiquitous credit score, last week said its FICO Labs was awarded eight new patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering credit score interpretation, fraud detection, credit line optimization and other analytics.

Total System Services Inc.’s TSYS Healthcare unit has inked an agreement with Lighthouse1 LLC that it says will enhance its offerings of consumer-directed health care payments, including enabling consolidation of consumer health care payments onto a single payment card.

Laxmi Bank Ltd. in Nepal has launched an online-payment service, an official from the Kathmandu-based bank tells PaymentsSource.

Mobile merchants in nations where chip-and-PIN cards using the EMV standard are used will have an opportunity to use VeriFone Systems Inc.’s PayWare Mobile service for the iPhone later this year, VeriFone says.

The Better Business Bureau serving Central California is warning businesses to avoid collection agency Maxwell, Turner & Associates Inc. The Fresno, Calif. agency has an F-rating for 32 unanswered complaints within the last 10 months.