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In an interview with PaymentsSource, Cohen describes the opportunities that arise for companies like Merchant Warehouse amid the rapid changes taking place in the payments industry.

PayPal announced it has acquired Duff Research, a group of mobile app developers, keeping with the company's growing focus on mobile devices.

Belt Valley Bank is small even by community bank standards—it's got about $62 million in assets and 18 employees. But it has the tools to compete directly with the likes of Square for accepting payments on mobile devices.

As it plots its expansion, payments tech developer Stripe is also building expertise via acquisition. It recently purchased Kickoff, a task management and collaboration application designed for teams.

ISOs and agents can use ACH and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services, a vendor says.

The 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has important information on the swipe-fee antitrust lawsuit.

Just three months after reaching 500,000 users, LevelUp hit one million customers, with a meaningful portion of that new audience attracted by adapting the company's offer system to work over Facebook.

BIPS’ strategy: Make it easy for merchants to get started with Bitcoin, aggregate their balances with the company, and make money over time on foreign exchange conversion and premium services.

Apple's Passbook has no payment function of its own — it is a blank canvas for other developers to add their ideas. In this way, Apple's featureless mobile wallet is fast becoming one of the most full-featured options available today.

Online and mobile payment tech startup Stripe has expansion plans on both sides of the Atlantic, and will rely on being a "simple" play for payments startups as it faces crowded field of competitors.

Vacation property rental companies and bed-and-breakfast operators can now accept online payments at the same time they’re booking clients through cloud-based WebReserv.com

ISO&Agent sat down recently for a Q&A with Kim Fitzsimmons, Cynegy Data CEO and new president of the Electronic Transactions Association.

BitPay, which processes payments in the decentralized digital currency Bitcoin, has integrated its platform with Amazon's fulfillment service, which ships goods for merchants that store their merchandise in Amazon's warehouses.

ISOs perform a wide variety of tasks, which can stretch them a little thin when it comes to understanding the risk of data theft and fraud.

Consumers remain notoriously reluctant to form new payment habits, so LevelUp persuaded some merchants to give them a nudge last week.

So far, funeral directors are about the only merchants seriously considering telling the pubic the cost of card acceptance.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Don’t expect to see the United States complete the transition to EMV smartcards anytime soon, a speaker said here today.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Teaching legislators how electronic payments work could help protect the industry from unwise regulation, speakers agreed here Tuesday at the Southeast Acquirers Association annual conference.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eddie Myers, who just finished his term as Electronic Transactions Association president, has learned some things during his years in the payments industry and he shared a few of them here today.

Many merchants still don't take credit or debit cards, usually because of the cost. Two-year-old Plastiq aims to help these holdouts by shifting the cost of card acceptance to the consumer.