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PayRange, a distribution deal with Vistar, is launching a Bluetooth device through that lets laundry machines, vending machines and parking meters accept payments through the consumer's wireless connection.

SunTrust Banks has appointed Paul Garcia, a former chairman and chief executive of Global Payments, to its board.

Total System Services Inc. is offering a tokenization service to secure payment card information for merchants accepting online, mobile or digital wallet payments.

Square recently ended a plastic card project out of concerns it would cause friction with the payment company's financial partners, according to Fast Company.

Wirecard AG's card solutions business will issue a MasterCard for Pockit, a provider of prepaid cards.

As Powa begins integrating its new point of sale system with vendor partners, the company expects its experience with EMV-chip acceptance to be a selling point.

Merchants are leveraging their digital gift card platforms for quick digital promotions.

Visa has launched a new service called Visa Transaction Advisor, which is designed to help U.S. gas stations identify higher-risk credit and debit card transactions at the pump.

Wipit has updated its mobile application to allow consumers to make payments by displaying a bar code at the point of sale.

Amazon's new mobile wallet can't make payments, but it benefits from working with Blackhawk Network to connect to gift and loyalty cards from Blackhawk merchants.

Green Dot Corp. will eliminate its MoneyPak reload cards, which have been targeted by scammers, and instead will let consumers reload prepaid accounts at the point of sale, its top executive said this week.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is launching a gift card program to allow merchants to sell physical cards in-store and digital cards through the company's mobile wallet app.

Dan Henry, who became NetSpend's CEO in 2008 and leaves at the end of July, plans to look beyond the prepaid world after his final day on the job.

Fiserv Inc. is promoting the real-time version Popmoney person-to-person payment service as a companion to its online bill payment offering.

The newly rebranded Visa Checkout is the latest of the card network's attempts to create a more streamlined, digital payment process that moves past the plastic card. Visa and Visa Europe have embarked on many projects around the globe in recent years, targeting e-commerce, mobile payments, P2P and other use cases.

First Data Corp. has agreed to buy Gyft Inc., which sells digital gift cards, in a move to advance the Atlanta-based processor's mobile payment offerings.

Square plans to offer a version of its mobile card reader that can read EMV-chip cards, but the added security may come at a cost.

The Secure Remote Payment Council wants a more open process in the development of a standard for tokenization, with the goal of ensuring a single token can be handled by multiple parties to improve security.

Diebold is unveiling an anti-skimming card reader designed to prevent criminals from stealing card data from unsuspecting automated teller machine users.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has withdrawn a list of merchant categories, including payday lenders, debt consolidation firms, pornography businesses and others, that it said warranted heightened attention by banks processing their transactions.