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The Harland Financial Solutions brand is being retired effective at year-end and will be replaced by the D+H brand. Toronto-based D+H acquired Harland Financial Solutions in July, bringing to more than 6,200 the number of credit unions and banks serviced by the combined entity.

Microsoft's Larry Hryb, known to gamers as Major Nelson, recently posted a six-second video demonstrating how the company's new Xbox console redeems codes for games and subscription services. It's six seconds that many in the payments industry should watch.

Continuing its international expansion through partnerships, U.S.-based EVO Payments International LLC has acquired a controlling interest in Polish financial institution PKO Bank Polski's merchant acquiring arm.

Decoupled debit cards, which enable payments from a checking account at a separate bank, are getting a lift from gas stations — but the product is also under fire from new products, including mobile wallets.

U.S. Bank is consolidating its general purpose reloadable debit cards under its new Contour Card in a move to capitalize on the growing trend of "family pack" prepaid products.

TD Bank Group and President’s Choice Financial are launching the Near Field Communication-based Ugo mobile wallet in Canada.

The use of prepaid debit cards at Cardtronics-owned ATMs continues to grow at a steady pace, with reloadable cards accounting for 16% of U.S. withdrawal volume during the third quarter.

ACI Worldwide completed its $109 million acquisition of electronic billing technology developer Official Payments Holdings.

HIG Capital's April acquisition of Pegasus Financial Services has resulted in the creation of Onyx Payments, which will process payments and provide financial services software to the hotel and travel agency industries.

On the first day RoboCoin's Bitcoin ATM was deployed, one third of its users were new to the digital currency.

As Wex extends its suite of travel and fleet payments products, the company is addressing the challenges that accompany certain markets.

Various companies have expressed interest in licensing JPMorgan Chase's prepaid card technology patents, according to Intellectual Property Exchange International Inc., a financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property rights.

Moven, a financial services startup, now lets users activate and deactivate debit cards from their smartphones.

Visa Inc. has partnered with Blue Label Mexico to bring electronic payments to hundreds of thousands of small merchants.

As the U.S. adoption of EMV-chip cards encounters legal roadblocks and merchant opposition, critics have questioned whether the card networks' October 2015 deadline is overly aggressive.

Prepaid card issuer Green Dot Corp.'s third-quarter revenue rose 3% from a year earlier, but higher expenses made its profits fall 36%.

MasterCard, echoing remarks made 16 hours earlier by Visa, is placing security at the heart of its emerging payments strategy.

Signature Card Services is bringing a dose of e-commerce to the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards.

Retailers that have long criticized the card networks' plan for them to accept EMV-chip cards are starting to view the smart-card migration as a reason to adopt mobile payments.

Visa Inc. posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that matched analysts’ estimates as U.S. retail spending strengthened.