Technology

International payment services company Global Collect announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a participating organization that will help develop the data protection standards.

Mophie, a Paw Paw, Mich.-based provider of technology accessory products such as smartphone batteries, later this week expects to reveal an external card reader and an application that manages transactions for Apple Inc.’s iPhone at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Banks are taking a tag-team approach to attract customers in the increasingly automated health care market, bundling commercial lending services with payments, technology management and other services.

BluePay has developed a processing product designed to help nonprofit organizations increase funding and decrease expenses by enabling consumers to set up reoccurring donations, according to the company.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. today announced it has acquired the Taxi Media business from Clear Channel Outdoor Inc., a division of Clear Channel Communications Inc. The deal expands VeriFone’s taxi sales staff to about 30 workers from a “handful” previously, a VeriFone spokesperson tells PaymentsSource.

Historically rivals, alternative payment providers and banks are laying down their swords.

UniRush LLC announced its prepaid RushCard has added a card-to-card funds transfer feature for users who want to transfer money between prepaid Visa RushCards.

Hoping to tap an emerging market, Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide and American Express Co. have been working to open their networks to third-party developers of software and smartphone applications.

Luup International Ltd. plans to establish a mobile phone-based remittance service for the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia, a spokesperson for the Norway-based payments provider tells PaymentsSource. The service will enable the approximately 500,000 Indonesians in the United Arab Emirates to transfer funds home.

No single market for new business surfaced in a recent survey of independent sales organizations and merchant acquirers. The survey findings, contained in the report from Aite Group LLC “ISOs and Merchant Acquirers: Two Sides of the Same Coin,” suggest ISOs and acquirers have different views on where they might find new card-accepting merchants.