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Balanced's new Push to Card program allows its marketplace clients to pay sellers directly onto their debit cards, enabling those sellers to instantly spend those funds.

Green Dot has hired a PayPal executive to become general manager of its mobile bank account, known as GoBank.

Merchants are likely to find the final sprint to meet the U.S. EMV liability-shift deadline is a tougher task for them than it is for card issuers.

By the end of 2015, 70% of U.S. credit cards and 41% of U.S. debit cards will be EMV enabled, and chip-and-signature will be preferred by issuers out of the gate, according to a recent survey.

American Express Co. is entering partnerships that aggressively take aim at a very specific segment of spending: fare for taxis and other hired cars.

Clients of EFT Source have issued more than 524,000 debit cards in a year through its Card@Once Instant Issuance Printers.

Prepaid card company Green Dot (GDOT) said Friday that it supports Visa's new initiative to simplify fees and disclosures.

American Express is raising its bet that there's money to be made by providing cheaper financial products to consumers who are shut out of the mainstream banking system.

American Express is adding financial management tools to its Serve and Bluebird prepaid cards and is expanding the cards' cash reload network.

MasterCard has launched a new Shariah-compliant debit card in Malaysia.

U.S. citizens traveling to Brazil for the World Cup have been warned: beware the chupacabra. Card cloning is common in Brazil, so U.S. citizens should take precautions when withdrawing money and check account activity often, the U.S. Citizen Services office in Brazil said on its Twitter account.

FIS' NYCE payments network has reached an agreement with MasterCard to use the card brand's technology for routing EMV debit payments.

Sometimes touted as a competitive advantage in the branch wars, the coin-counting kiosk is headed to the scrap heap at one of the nation's largest banks, Capital One Financial.

Xapo says its Bitcoin debit card will start rolling out by the end of June, and it will be accepted anywhere by using the rails of a card network, interchange fees included.

Visa Inc. has announced a new specification for reloadable prepaid providers focused on simplifying fees and disclosures.

Merchants seeking a court ruling that would cause the Federal Reserve Board to re-establish debit cap fees at a lower rate want more time to consider bringing the case to the Supreme Court.

Kiind, a business-to-business gifting startup, has launched a reloadable account and added new funding methods to its platform to meet the demands of its business clients for payment flexibility.

Prepaid card provider Contis Group is combining its loyalty and other closed-loop card products into a single business unit to make its gift card operation more agile.

The payment processing company Total System Services Inc. has hired a new global chief procurement officer.

MasterCard Inc. plans to help its cardholders address issues that arise from identity theft, while also extending its zero liability policy to include PIN-based and ATM transactions.