Cards

Electronic payments provider ACI Worldwide inked a nine-year extension to service 24,000 ATMs across the U.K. for VocaLink, the country’s payment infrastructure provider.

The Federal Reserve Board has approved a deal for prepaid card issuer Green Dot to buy GE Capital’s Walmart-branded prepaid debit card business, according to a statement the Fed posted online Nov. 22.

Through an expanded partnership between MasterCard and Green Dot, U.S. consumers holding a MasterCard prepaid card can reload the account through the Walmart Rapid Reload service.

InStore, an iPad-based mobile point of sale provider, has launched Gift Card Merchant, a free app for Apple devices that allows merchants to design physical gift cards to be printed.

A new multi-purse card called Coin recently caused a commotion as it sparked interest in the concept of a card with a dynamic magnetic stripe. But other companies have pitched similar concepts before.

Google Wallet now offers a plastic Google Wallet debit card designed as an alternative to using a smartphone to pay at the point of sale.

Visa Inc. is working with i2c to bring new prepaid processing options to countries where prepaid card use is growing.

Online PIN debit provider Acculynk now allows U.S. merchants to accept China UnionPay payments online.

Oberthur Technologies will supply First Data Corp. with EMV smart cards as part of a partnership in which both companies plan to promote use of the chip-based cards in the U.S.

Don't get distracted by the big-name telecoms that designed the Isis mobile wallet, or you'll miss the wizard behind the curtain: American Express, which stands to see a jolt in adoption of its Serve account if Isis succeeds.

With some powerful marketing, Coin, a dynamic card provider, has captured consumer attention with its magnetic-stripe card that can digitally store accounts from multiple credit and debit cards.

Government payment processor General Payment Systems has signed an agreement with Riverside Superior Court in California to support alternative payments.

Payments processor Cardis USA and mobile commerce vendor Spindle are joining with vending machine manufacturer Multi-max to enable mobile payments at its machines, where most consumers still buy coffee with cash.

Gyft, a mobile gift card provider, has launched a loyalty system that gives different levels of rewards based on the funding method, favoring alternatives over credit cards.

Quatrro, a business processing company based in India, is launching payment processing services for credit unions, community banks and other payment companies in the U.S.

Blackhawk Network has completed its purchase of InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions, which will operate as a business unit of Blackhawk, a distributor of gift cards and prepaid telecom products.

WorldPay has entered a five-year partnership to support payment processing for Direct Card Solutions, which specializes in serving the entertainment industry.

U.S. Bank has launched a travel payments engine that provides unique identifiers for each transaction instead of a centralized billing umbrella.

The payment processor Planet Payment has named Carl Williams as its president.

Former First Data CFO Cheryl King will assume the same position at PaySpan, a health care payment automation company.