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ACI Worldwide Inc. said Monday that it would supply payment services to Domino's Pizza Inc.

MasterCard Worldwide has announced a deal with a Brussels online payment company that would give customers of MasterCard issuers greater access to U.S. and United Kingdom online merchants.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is betting that its Virtual Wallet account, which has always focused on showing consumers how to be better savers, can also teach them to be better spenders.

Target Corp. is offering consumers prepaid Target gift cards in exchange for used electronics as part of a recycling campaign.

AIB Merchant Services Ltd. has launched an initiative that enables consumers to integrate multiple merchant-loyalty cards on one contactless tag.

Since launching the Visa Travel Currency prepaid card in 2003, cardholders at Axis Bank Ltd. have loaded more than US$1 billion into their card accounts, making Axis the first Indian bank to achieve that milestone, according to Visa Inc.

Selling prepaid cards might become less appealing to retailers if a recent proposal aimed at curbing money laundering takes effect.

An inventor claiming to hold a patent on ATM non-financial retail functions ratcheted up his fight with Cardtronics last week, filing suit in federal court in Wilmington, Del., alleging the nation’s largest provider of ATMs is infringing on his patents for multi-purpose automated transaction machines.

West Jordan, Utah-based Mountain America Credit Union announced a new application for the Apple iPad that will allow its members who own the popular tablet computers to conduct much of their financial business online.

Police in Houston are asking for the public’s help in finding three suspects who stole an SUV, then an ATM from Right Choice Credit Union and shot at an off-duty police officer who was chasing them.

The Chicago Transit Authority appears closer to implementing an open-network electronic fare-collection system that would accept contactless card and mobile payments.

Cardtronics said Aug. 26 it has received tenders for $97.6 million of its 9.25% Series A senior subordinated notes and is calling the remainder of the $200 million outstanding of the junk bonds.

Intuit Inc. is enhancing its GoPayment mobile credit and debit card acceptance service with a card reader designed to attach to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

Blackhawk Network has rebranded its reloadable prepaid debit card products as it attempts to capture a share of a growing prepaid market.

Independent sales organizations contribute about 35% of Global Payments Inc.’s annual revenue, but the revenue they generate has a lower profit margin for the Atlanta-based payments processor than that of some of its other business, suggests a recent analyst report.

Gemalto NV’s Secure Transactions unit, which includes banking cards, generated 207.4 million euros (US$253 million) in revenue during the first half of this year, up 1.4% from 204.6 million euros during the same period in 2009, the France-based smart card vendor announced Aug. 26. The unit’s profit from operations totaled 5.6 million euros, down 24.3% from 7.4 million euros.

Six casinos in Idaho, Washington and California have signed up to use Global Payments Inc.’s VIP LightSpeed cash-access service, the Atlanta-based payment processor announced Aug. 26.

Beginning Oct. 31, 2012, issuers, merchants and acquirers in Canada that support the American Express brand will become liable for credit and charge card fraud initiated with magnetic stripe cards that chip-and-PIN technology could have prevented, American Express Co.’s AmEx Canada confirms.

A long-planned payments pilot program allowing banks to convert low-value checks to automated clearing house transactions is moving forward, but some industry experts say the initiative may be past its prime.