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Small businesses can initiate and manage international payments online with the help of a product called Sage International Payments.

Voltage Security, an encryption vendor, is touting technology it says provides a new approach to protecting payment card data.

Five hundred members of the acquiring industry have earned the Electronic Transactions Association Certified Payments Professional credential.

The Electronic Transactions Association is remaining true to its original constituents in the acquiring business, even as it opens the door to other types of companies, according to the trade group’s CEO.

Total System Services Inc., or TSYS, has signed a long-term agreement to provide services for ISOs that work with Merrick Bank.

Irish-based Monex Financial Systems Ltd. is looking for American ISOs interested in profiting from card transactions made here by visitors from abroad.

The April deadline for processors to adopt EMV chip card technology seems likely come and go without much fanfare, an official at an EMV education firm says.

The list of mobile card readers seems endless today, but it's set to get a lot bigger.

The Senate has passed a bill amending the Electronic Funds Transfer Act and revoking the placard fee disclosure requirement that has spurred lawsuits against independent ATM deployers and financial institutions.

ISOs and agent could start facing more pressure to obtain The Electronic Transactions Association Certified Payments Professional credential.

Processors are racing against time to convert PIN debit networks to EMV standards in the United States.

Typical acquirers -- including banks, processors and ISOs -- stand to lose up to 5% of their business next month because of problems with Internal Revenue Service 1099K reporting, a tax expert says.

Ripple, the latest project of serial disruptor Chris Larsen, aims to be a flexible technology for handling digital payments in any imaginable currency, from bucks to bitcoins to bicycle parts.

w research indicates the payments industry is rarely on the same page as retailers and consumers with how they view new payment technology.

Vantiv Inc. has completed its purchase of the e-commerce payment processor Litle & Co.

Better ATM Services is testing a Discover-branded, ATM-dispensed prepaid gift card that consumers can use at any of nine retail chains and restaurants.

Interrelated events have aligned to help a U.S.-based independent sales organization expand into a global processor operating in 41 countries.

An online yellow pages company is offering ISOs and agents a bundle of marketing tools to promote to merchants.

The prepaid card market is growing but has become so competitive that many of the smaller players will fade away or become targets for acquisition.

Technologists are obsessed with it. Banks have invested in it. And unlike most mobile payments products, customers are actually using it. With Square, the Twitter co-founder is on the leading edge — again.