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American Express is expanding its cash reload network for its Serve prepaid cards through a partnership with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

MasterCard has entered an agreement to buy Pinpoint Pty. Ltd., a Sydney, Australia-based provider of loyalty and rewards services in the Asia Pacific region.

American Express' joint travel venture may get delayed as it awaits regulatory approval, CFO Jeff Campbell told investors Jan 16.

Momentum is building for debit EMV as the Shazam Network and Visa Inc. announced an agreement today to enable issuers to use Visa's common debit application identifier (AID) for Visa- and Shazam-branded cards and transactions.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is reducing its mobile wallet's transaction fee from 2% to 1.95% in its continued attempt to shave interchange costs.

CO-OP Financial Services has entered into an agreement with Visa to make the Visa EMV common debit solution available to its credit union clients.

The conventional wisdom has always been: prepaid card customers will pay a fee for mobile check deposit, but bank customers won't. A year ago, Regions Bank decided to charge a fee to both audiences and has monitored the results.

Wave Crest Group Ltd. will be the prepaid program manager for Advanced Cash's new MasterCard program.

Payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has acquired MCS Software.

Merchants are eager to sell prepaid cards to increase revenue, and they'll be looking to expand their offerings through partnerships with prepaid providers and networks, according to a new report from Aite Group.

Prepaid program managers face a much different set of considerations than banks do when deciding how to deploy EMV-chip cards in the U.S.

The "buy local" Buzz Points loyalty program is adding mobile marketing technology to increase payments volume for non-chain merchants.

VeriFone Systems plans to offer a new portable card terminal that can accept EMV-chip card payments and uses several wireless technologies.

Digital coupon provider Coupons.com Inc. is offering consumers the option to link the site's offers directly to their credit or debit cards.

Gyft, a provider of virtual gift cards, plans to launch Gyft Cloud, a marketplace for merchants to sell their own digital gift cards with Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system developed by First Data Corp.

Data security provider Foregenix is in the thick of the endless war on cybercrime. And the payments industry's biggest weapons are no deterrent to fraudsters, says Andrew Henwood, CEO of U.K.-based Foregenix.

Vietnam Eximbank has implemented biometric technology for over-the-counter and ATM transactions where only fingerprint is needed for authentication.

Smaller businesses often have trouble finding a product designed for their size, and gift cards are no exception, says Mike Fletcher, general manager of InComm Digital Solutions.

Walmart has long been as much a force in financial services as it has been in retail. Here are some of ways Walmart and its executives have shaped - and challenged - the payments industry.

The payments processor First Data has appointed former AOL executive Michael Manos as its chief technology officer.