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Visa and Citigroup, working with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, plan to connect governments, NGOs, the private sector and others to advance global financial access by the end of this decade. Their Financial Inclusion 2020 campaign aims to do this by increasing access to credit, savings, payment tools and insurance for people all over the world.

Ingenico SA, a French provider of payment terminals and services, agreed to buy online-payment company Ogone for 360 million euros ($484 million) as part of a push to expand outside Europe.

Diebold's board of directors has negotiated the departure of another high level executive, according to an SEC filing released Monday. Last week, the North Canton, Ohio, company's chief executive Thomas W. Swidarski stepped down from his positions as president and CEO and resigned from the company's board.

Many personal financial management tools were designed to pool payment data from multiple accounts, but a few companies are testing a different premise by offering tools to analyze the data of just one account.

Canada's right next door and has lots of English speakers, so it might seem the ideal place for American independent sales organizations to expand. But the two countries' business and cultural practices differ in ways that Americans may not expect.

London commuters are supposed to be excited about the prospect of their Tube underground rail system adding acceptance of any bank’s contactless payment card. But it may take time for them to break the habit of using the popular Oyster contactless prepaid transit card.

Mainstream consumers are still slow to adopt newer payment technology, but several cities are pushing ahead of the rest of the world.

Payments processor TransCard LLC is putting a new meaning behind the phrase "time is money." The company is working with Watch2Pay LLC to provide U.S. banks with wristwatches built with MasterCard PayPass contactless chips and linked to a prepaid card account.

Visa Inc. is urging its shareholders to reject a proposal by activist investors that would require the card network to reveal detailed information about its lobbying activities.

A computer hacker from the online activism group “Anonymous” was sentenced in Britain to 18 months in jail for conspiring to attack the websites of Visa Inc., PayPal Inc., MasterCard Inc. and others.

Square Inc. said Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois has resigned, marking the departure of an executive who has helped the company grow to more than 3 million customers. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar will become acting COO.

Synqera is trying to set itself apart from rivals in the targeted-offer crowd by using point-of-sale hardware with data collection tools that look at everything from weather patterns to the shopper's mood.

MasterCard Inc. aims to benefit the payments industry by converting cash-only consumers around the world to plastic cards and electronic payments.

Thomas W. Swidarski has stepped down from his positions as president and CEO of Diebold and resigned from the company's board of directors under pressure from the board, a spokesman said.

Thomas Swidarski was Diebold's top exec from 2005 to January 2013. It wasn't an easy job.

Tom Swidarski , Diebold Inc.'s president and CEO, is leaving the company after its board decided to pursue new leadership, the ATM maker announced today. He is also leaving its board of directors.

Green Dot is taking a lesson from Radiohead, oddly enough, and giving customers control of one of the company's mobile bank account fees.

Walt Disney Co. is about to distribute "MagicBands," high-tech wristbands that allow Disney World parkgoers to make payments and skip longer lines. Hersheypark tried a similar idea last year, and the results were far from magical.

Citibank India announced the launch of a mobile and tablet card reading device today developed by Ezetap Mobile Solutions.

Amazon.com Inc. has added an in-app purchasing feature for games and other programs developed for the Web, Mac and PC.