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Payments technology is advancing so quickly on so many fronts that Spindle CEO Bill Clark is changing his requirements for hiring new sales staff.

First Data is looking to sell shares of its stock to address its "indebtedness," the company announced Monday.

Bryn Mawr Bank in Pennsylvania said its chief financial officer resigned and it appointed two interim executives to fill his roles.

NCR has launched a new tablet-based point-of-sale device aimed at minimizing security risks for the merchants that use it.

Independent sales organizations are facing an age-old question that has confronted teenagers for centuries: What are they going to do with their future?

The regulatory landscape has become far more complex for acquirers and independent sales organizations, mainly because federal agencies are showing more interest in the various layers of the payments ecosystem.

First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, N.Y. has hired Peggy Yankovich to lead the commercial card and payments business of its treasury management group. Yankovich had been the global head of corporate cards, global payments & cash management at HSBC.

Blythe Masters scores one for women in the boardroom, the Fed's Sarah Bloom Raskin is leading a campaign to declassify cyber security info for banks, and Yellen is still at odds with Congress — but at least "the ecomomy doesn't stink."

With the clock ticking for the Oct. 1 deadline for EMV adoption, acquirers and independent sales organizations have a clear opportunity to become payments consultants.

Santander Consumer USA Holdings named Blythe Masters nonexecutive chairman, replacing the executive who quit the post less than two weeks ago and a week after the subprime auto lender's parent company was hit with a regulatory order.

Great Wolf Resorts will give its customers wristbands that can initiate purchases and access hotel rooms at its chain of theme parks and hotels.

Some rules are black and white, which is why Sift Science has added the ability for clients to integrate automatic rules on top of its machine-learning fraud detection system.

Finding Apple Pay-accepting merchants in the U.K. isn't quite the needle-in-the-haystack proposition that it is in the U.S., but it's still enough of a challenge to raise concerns among Apple's partners during the mobile wallet's launch in the country.

Bank of America has named Jackie Yoon president of its St. Louis market, after Larry Otto left the job for the same position at U.S. Bancorp.

PayItSimple USA is expanding its installment payments technology to the U.K.

Apple Inc. is making the U.K. the first market outside the U.S. for its digital-wallet system as the company fights for a place in the electronic-payments industry.

Discover Financial Services has certified payments testing software provider Acquirer Systems to provide EMV service for its customers in U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Business members of Best Price, which Walmart operates as in India, will have the ability to make payments via M-Pesa’s mobile wallet service.

Verifone has brought on two new executives to head up its Asia Pacific and China regions on the heels of its disappointing results in those markets.

Now the CEO of the mobile point of sale provider ShopKeep, Norm Merritt previously headed the global outsourcing company iQor and brings with him a few ideas about how to make big money by serving small merchants.