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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has scrapped a test of higher ATM fees it did in two states for noncustomers, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.

An increase in transaction volume at its merchants and higher debit network fees from its bank clients helped payments processor First Data Corp. increase its quarterly revenue by 6% from a year earlier to $2.5 billion.

WASHINGTON — Although it's rare to have a financial services issue play much of a role in a local political campaign, the battle over the Durbin interchange amendment has become an unusually prominent part of the re-election race of Sen. Jon Tester.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA released a study this morning showing that many small credit unions currently lose money on their debit cards but for most credit unions debit is extremely lucrative.

ATLANTA– Processing giant First Data Corp. reported this morning that debt incurred from its huge 2007 takeover continues to saddle it with big losses but rapid growth in debit processing helped stem the losses.

The fraud management provider Memento Inc. announced April 28 that Bremer Financial Corp.’s Bremer Bank has agreed to use its technology.

Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Co. soon will enable consumers to pay their electricity bills though their mobiles phones.

Fidelity National Information Services Inc., or FIS, is pushing its debit-processing network to banks and credit unions as they await the outcome of pending caps on debit card interchange fees.

The Federal Reserve Board’s July deadline for capping debit interchange is just around the corner, but MasterCard Worldwide said it does not expect to feel its effects until at least next year.

MasterCard Inc.’s profit leapt 23.5%, to $562 million in the first quarter from $455 million a year earlier, driven in part by a rise in payments. The card brand’s revenue rose 14.5%, to $1.5 billion from $1.31 billion.

MasterCard this morning reported a 23.6% surge in first quarter profits, as the number and dollar amount of debit transactions continued to lead its growth.

Sony Corp. is reporting that 12,700 credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates were exposed in a separate database from that affected by the massive PlayStation breach.

PURCHASE, N.Y. – MasterCard this morning reported a 23.6% surge in first quarter profits, as the number and dollar amount of debit transactions continued to lead its growth.

If 7,500 credit unions across the United States would get their members to contact their Congressional representatives, it would “help keep the pressure on” lawmakers and potentially halt implementation of the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, Nat Rosenberg, senior vice president of U.S. Markets for MasterCard Worldwide, told attendees at the National Association of Credit Union Service Organizations Annual Conference in Las Vegas last week.

The prepaid card provider Plastyc Inc. announced Monday that it was awarded a patent for aspects of online card payments.

A host of new mobile payment applications promise many of the perks of near-field communication technology, without the costly hardware.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.–Payment-industry experts who gathered in Miami Beach, Fla., April 27 to 29 to attend the 23rd Card Forum & Expo reflected for the first time in a few years an attitude that seemed genuinely ready to greet certain disruptive changes instead of brace against them.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. would consider reimbursing financial institutions for any costs associated with reissuing credit cards that might have been compromised when someone breached the company’s PlayStation Network last month (see story).

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-If certain “conspiracy theories” have any merit, the Federal Reserve Board might be heeding signals from Capitol Hill as it takes more time to craft final debit-interchange rules, one payment-industry analyst suggested April 28 at the Card Forum & Expo in Miami Beach, Fla.

A Virginia circuit court on April 29 awarded $5.3 million in damages to the former chief executive and chairman of banking technology vendor Online Resources Corp. in an employment lawsuit he filed against the company.