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SecureNet Payment Systems has opened a technology and innovation center in Austin, Texas, and revealed plans for a client operations center in Silicon Valley, Calif., later this year.

A study guide has just been released as a companion to a recent hardcover book aimed at the acquiring industry.

As the new iPhone 5 gets into consumers’ hands, so too does Apple’s new limited mobile wallet app, Passbook, a single platform for storing movie tickets, boarding passes, gift cards and retail coupons.

A new partnership will bring merchant supplier General Credit Forms’ products to the online marketplace of payments technology provider My Clear Reports.

Capital Access Network’s subsidiary Newlogic Business Loans Inc. is now granting loans to merchants through independent sales organizations in all 50 states.

Independent Sales Organizations stand to make more money if they provide some of the funding for merchant cash advances, and at least a few are borrowing to do it.

Groupon's new payments system is a small step toward a dramatic change in merchant acquiring, one that leaves ownership of consumer data up for grabs.

These days it seems like everyone is a payments company, whether their primary business is selling coffee or coupons. Wherever they come from, they're challenging the very structure of this industry.

A new cloud-based merchant loyalty scheme has earned the backing of a major payments processor and some large retailing chains.

Marqeta has launched a consumer rewards prepaid card in hopes of capturing the success of Starbucks' loyalty program and spreading that wealth to other merchants.

NBS Technologies, a provider of equipment for card personalization, is installing Xpressi Trusted Service Manager for a customer in Europe in early October.

Groupon is the latest of many companies to provide merchants with a card reader that clips to smartphones. But the daily-deals company is not simply selling a me-too device — it is planting the seeds of a bigger payments strategy.

Although hospitality-focused mobile payment application developer Tabbedout's technology has some resemblance to Square's mobile wallet, the vendor says it designed its system to be more compatible with established payment systems.

Some independent sales organizations intentionally make merchants' monthly statements as confusing as possible — even as others are working to dispel the mysteries of billing.

Merchant Warehouse, a Boston-based independent sales organization, says its Genius Customer Engagement Platform accepts Apple Passbook, a function the company views as part of a nationwide shift toward mobile payments.

Square announced today that it has closed the Series D financing round that included Starbucks, among other investors.

International Merchant Solutions has signed a multiyear deal with Phoenix Managed Networks for PhoeniXSentry, a cloud-based network management service and built-in firewall router.

More consumers are using mobile devices to pay for online purchases, but small merchants aren't doing much to accommodate them.

The medical marijuana market once represented a new opportunity for merchant processors, but it dried up almost overnight when the major U.S. credit card networks more or less banned them from processing such sales — even in states where it is legal.

American card issuers and acquirers are "dragging their feet" on the transition to the EMV chip card standard, but some companies hope to speed the transition by making a clear business case for the technology.