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Global Payments is offering Planet Payment's Pay in Your Currency technology to merchants in Canada. Global Payments plans to offer a similar service in the U.S. later this summer.

Basketball legend and businessman Magic Johnson is once again putting his name on a prepaid card. This time around, Johnson's card has lower up-front fees and an emphasis on saving money.

"A burglar cannot rob 300 homes in one night, but a cybercriminal can attack 300 mobile devices at a time," said Dr. Markus Jakobsson, principal scientist, consumer security at PayPal.

Capital Bank of Rockville, Md., said it chose Fiserv's Premier core, as well as the vendor's credit card management, electronic bill pay, person-to-person payments and other services.

Deutsche Telekom AG's announcement July 2 of a mobile payments partnership with MasterCard highlights the opportunities for issuers in mobile wallets being developed worldwide, including in the U.S.

U.S. Bank will pay $55 million to settle overdraft litigation against it, according to a filing in Southern Florida U.S. District Court.

When Joe Randazza first began filing National Payment Card Association patents seven years ago for decoupled debit products and processes, he admits he "didn't have the vision to foresee a future with smartphones."

American Express plans to begin issuing secure chip cards in the U.S. this year, and it has released a timeline for merchants to follow in accepting those cards. Like every other network's roadmap, Amex sticks closely to the plan Visa announced last August.

Visa is putting some of its most sophisticated commercial card features within reach of small and mid-sized businesses that use credit cards to cover expenses.

Google's most recent update to its mobile wallet's online pricing seems to stray from the product's focus at the point of sale. It's the latest in a series of twists and turns in Google's payments strategy.

To hear Dan Wagner tell it, one would think the CEO of London-based mPowa was ready to enter the ring for a prizefight against all comers in the world of mobile card-based payments.

The CEO of m-Via has spent the past four years developing a low-cost mobile payments system called Boom and telling people around the world about it.

Almost a year ago, the telecommunications companies backing the Isis mobile wallet venture were clear that they would rely on Near Field Communication. But as technology advances, there may be wisdom in adopting an alternative.

Merchants may feel overwhelmed at the abundance of new payment technologies, and they are understandably worried about investing in the wrong one. Terminal vendors are hoping to address those fears.

The reloadable debit card PayPal introduced early this year has finally hit the streets.

Despite constant calls to action, U.S. credit card issuers may still be too complacent about card fraud — even as the fallout from massive data breaches snowballs.

Shopkick now works with both Visa and MasterCard to offer targeted rewards using transaction data gathered at the point of sale.

Green Dot said June 28 that, roughly six months after completing its purchase of Bonneville Bancorp, it has finished integrating it and begun issuing cards.

Though ZooZ is now the exclusive payment option for merchants that use the mobile commerce platform provider MobiCart, this week's agreement linking the two tech companies is, paradoxically, about providing access to as many payment options as possible.

Google announced revisions to its mobile wallet that make it a more palatable choice for the sale of digital goods.