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Discover Financial Services said Wednesday that it had signed a merchant acquirer agreement with First National Bank Alaska.
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Global Payments Inc. announced a major delay in upgrading U.S. merchants to a new authorization system. The payments processor also reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings Monday, leading investors to drive down its share price by Tuesday.
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Fraudsters clog up the phone lines making it difficult for banks to contact their customers; if you don't use Java, remove it; customers helpful in combatting fraud; and more.
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PayPal Inc. said its new mobile remote deposit capture feature is a hit among its mobile app users.
October 8 -
ABN Amro NV is expanding its relationship with IBM to help it merge with the former Fortis Bank.
October 8 -
Fiserv Inc. is breaking down the barriers for small merchants to present statements within online banking sites, a service more commonly limited to high-volume billers.
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HR Simplified Inc., a Minneapolis provider of employee benefit services, is using a software program to manage account balances from Fidelity National Information Services Inc.
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ABI Research, an Oyster Bay, N.Y., mobile marketing research firm, said in its report "Mobile Banking, P2P, and Bill Payments" that the number of subscribers to mobile person-to-person services in Africa will reach 96 million in 2015, up from 9 million in 2009.
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Citigroup Inc.'s Global Transaction Services business has expanded its commercial card services to clients in Greece and Luxembourg.
October 7 -
Fairwinds Credit Union in Orlando has renewed its membership in First Data Corp.'s Star network, making the electronic funds transfer service its preferred provider of PIN debit transaction and ATM access services.
October 7 -
The town of Brookline, Mass., has launched a prepaid card program that allows residents to pay for parking with a reloadable card that is also accepted by many of the town's merchants.
October 7 -
PayPal Inc.'s latest addition to its mobile application, a remote deposit capture function, is leading some to view its behavior as more like a bank's.
October 7 -
Though check volume continues to decline, Deluxe says that regulatory uncertainty about cards is creating an opportunity to win consumers back from the clutches of plastic.
October 7 -
SecureKey Technologies Inc. has developed a way to turn any computer into a contactless payment terminal, bringing the improved security of contactless payments to e-commerce — without requiring online merchants to do anything to their systems.
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A subsidiary of the American Bankers Association is offering a prepaid MasterCard Inc. program for community banks that want to issue cards.
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Westpac Banking Corp. has begun installing 15,000 Hypercom Corp. Optimum point of sale terminals as part of a $50 million deal the two companies announced last year.
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VeriFone Systems Inc. said Wednesday that it has begun installing passenger-activated payment and multimedia information systems in taxis in Atlanta.
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