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Total System Services (TSYS) has renewed its contract with Minnesota's U.S. Bank, one of the largest banks in the U.S.

Payment Alliance International, a Kentucky-based independent sales organization and ATM provider, has partnered with charitable fundraising firm Digital Processing Solutions to create a new "Digital Donations" program accessible through ATMs.

Most merchants are trying to eliminate the barriers between their online and physical storefronts, yet the U.K. retailer John Lewis has put a small but meaningful barrier between these two channels.

Suffolk Bancorp in Riverhead, N.Y. has promoted Anita J. Nigrel to executive vice president and chief retail officer, a newly created position, effective Monday.

Boston Private Financial has added former insurance executive Lizabeth Zlatkus to its board. Zlautkus spent 28 years with Hartford Financial Services, including stints as chief financial officer and chief risk officer.

Stacey Friedman will become the general counsel of JPMorgan Chase early next year, and Steve Cutler will be its vice chairman, the company announced Monday.

The migration to EMV-chip cards is proceeding at a slow crawl at many merchants. But in the restaurant industry in particular, many proprietors see it as an unnecessary ingredient.

The most powerful women in New York include two from JPMorgan, one from Goldman Sachs, and none (that’s right, none) from Citigroup. Plus, JPMorgan alum Blythe Masters is making waves, as is actress Meryl Streep.

Diane Bailey Morton was named the $1.6 billion-asset C1's chief human capital officer and general counsel, while Dustin Symes will head up retail lending operations.

The former FDIC chairman said during a recent conference call that banks with a traditional model — essentially community banks — have been hurt by the Fed's interest rate policy and the trickle-down tactics of regulation.

When mom-and-pop merchants need a loan, they are increasingly turning to some big names in the payments business, which are quickly becoming noteworthy players in small-business lending.

South Shore Bank in South Weymouth, Mass., has named new chief executive and chief operating officers.

As with everything else in Vegas, marketing to local commuters is a game of chance.

The ACHBanking payment processing gateway has added Office of Foreign Assets Control standards to its service to better comply with regulations for preventing fund transfers between parties on government watch lists.

As more retailers consider uses for tablets in their stores, Moki Mobility Inc. figures it is in the right place at the right time to offer its cloud-based point of sale management technology.

Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan Chase executive, has joined the advisory board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a Bitcoin trade association created to represent the young industry's interests in Washington.

Payment providers that don't move to support more integrated digital commerce may find themselves unable to serve the "connected consumer" of the future.

Consumers in China are making more purchases online than in-store, prompting the country's retailers to support payment options that are normally associated with e-commerce.

A new version of Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) guidelines to be published by the PCI Council today will allow retailers—for the first time—to be able to create and seek certification for their own P2PE system, addressing a longstanding retailer concern about the earlier rules locking them into certain vendor relationships.

In an effort to appeal to more businesses by helping them manage their employees, Square has launched Square Payroll.