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PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has struck an ATM branding deal with Cardtronics Inc. The Houston automated teller machine operator said Thursday that PNC's brand would appear on the money machines it operates at all of Hess Corp.'s 230 service stations in Florida.

ABN Amro NV announced it has completed an internal test of contactless debit cards for small-value transactions. The Dutch banking company expects to conduct a larger test starting this summer.

PayPal Inc. is beginning its second contest to encourage third-party software developers to create applications that tie into its payment system.

The Herndon, Va., electronic payments association said last week that in May its members had approved a new rule for classifying ACH debit transactions initiated via mobile channels.

To First Federal Savings Bank, the practice of using bank logos on contactless payments stickers makes branding sense, but not fashion sense. So it went with pink camouflage.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services said Citizens Bank of Oklahoma in Pawhuska has agreed to use its ComplianceOne system.

First Data Corp. said Thursday that The Bankers Bank of Oklahoma City will use its Internet banking technology.

Socialwise Inc. said three sports retailers plan to accept and promote its BillMyParents online payment system.

More than 100 banks and credit unions have agreed to offer the person-to-person transfer service being developed by Fiserv Inc.

The top executive of Green Dot Corp. said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. would not play a role in operating the bank holding company the prepaid card provider is trying to buy if the deal is approved.

AT&T error exposes iPad users' email addresses; experts notice more secret passwords documented in log files; password security is really just demographics gathering; and more.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to buy the risk-assessment software provider Compliance Coach Inc.

With the first deadline of the Federal Reserve's new overdraft fee requirements just two weeks away, banks and technology vendors are hurriedly updating the systems they will need to keep track of consumers who have opted in for coverage.

Banks in India are replenishing their automated teller machines with cash more often because of a rules change enacted last year by the country's central bank.

The Indian outsourcing provider Firstsource Solutions Ltd. said Friday it is in talks with Barclaycard to buy its customer service center in the United Kingdom.

TaxiEpay, a unit of the Australian payments company Live Group, has begun deploying more than 3,500 Hypercom Corp. terminals to support a new payment card-acceptance system for taxis in Sydney and Melbourne.

MIAMI — Jack Dorsey wants to give the taco trucks of the world an easier way to serve card-carrying consumers. But the founder of the payments software provider Square Inc. has his sights set on big-box retailers as well.

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Banks may raise annual fees on payment cards and curtail perks for consumers if Congress adopts limits on transaction fees, MasterCard Inc.'s president, Ajay Banga, said Thursday.