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Payment processor Global Payments Inc. will sell VeriFone Systems Inc.’s PayWare Mobile service in Canada, VeriFone announced Wednesday.

Calpian Inc., a Dallas-based lender to independent sales organizations, is turning to the investor community to raise money so it can complete more deals.

Mobile operator du, the commercially branded name of the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co., has launched an automated payment service to enable its postpaid customers to pay bills using their mobile phones, the Dubai-based company earlier this month.

Wright Express Corp. has completed its acquisition of the Australian prepaid and fleet card operations of Retail Decisions Ltd., the South Portland, Maine-based fleet card company announced on Sept. 15.

Dynamic Card Solutions, a provider of instant card issuance, on Tuesday said it has expanded the capabilities of its mobile payments personalization platform, known as CardWizard Perso-to-Go, to support personalization of near-field communication Micro SD cards.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is trying to fix its consumer website after a failure late Monday left more than 16.5 million customers without access to online banking, reports Bloomberg News.

Facebook Inc. wants more people to "like" its virtual currency system as it bids to become a more serious player in payments.

MasterCard Worldwide’s Sept. 14 announcement of its agreement to enter into a payments business-development deal with China UnionPay, along with news that Global Payments Inc. has gained permission to process card payments in China, suggests U.S.-based card players may be moving closer to cracking open the potentially lucrative Chinese market, analysts say.

Consumers continue to show a growing preference for prepaying, new research suggests.

Card-manufacturing startup Dynamics Inc. this week is unveiling details of Card 2.0, a computing platform usable in payment cards that changes the information on magnetic stripes and erases the stripe data when turned off.

Interbank FX LLC’s recent partnership with GlobalCollect will enable the Salt Lake City-based company to process credit card transactions for its international clients, Netherlands-based GlobalCollect reported on Sept. 13.

Intuit, Inc., and several credit union defendants have asked a federal court here to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by MShift over its mobile banking technology, saying the company’s patent is outmoded and not pertinent to their technology.

The next street performer you see may be marketing automated banking products.

Two point-of-sale terminal makers recently introduced new products or updates to their product lines.

The Bank of Namibia late last month authorized Mobicash Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd. to offer a new mobile-payment service in the country, according to a Mobicash spokesperson. The service, which is scheduled to launch in October, will enable the institution’s customers to use their mobile phones to pay for goods and person-to-person funds transfers.

State-owned telecommunication operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on Sept. 13 launched a service that enables customers who have credit cards to pay their telco bills using their mobile phones, according to a spokesperson for the India-based company.

Cumberland Farms convenience stores in New England, the mid-Atlantic and Florida have begun offering Visa- and Discover-branded reloadable prepaid cards, card-program provider nFinanSe Inc. announced Sept. 14.

Domestic spending on Visa-branded cards in the U.S. continued to grow during the second three months of this year, while the economy and market effects took their toll on MasterCard Worldwide.

MasterCard Inc. is trying to reach the small but growing number of people who might be ready for mobile payments by sending them time-sensitive offers that can help them save money and become more comfortable using their phones to make purchases.

MasterCard Inc. has appointed Betty K. DeVita the president in charge of the payment network's Canadian operations.