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Heartland Payment Systems Inc. now has a new take on just how popular Apple Inc.’s iOS devices are.
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PayPal Inc. reportedly is planning to launch a mobile card reader that could help its nascent point-of-sale payment system reach small merchants.
March 13 -
Many small retailers who can’t afford to convert their websites to accommodate mobile browsers and payments are letting potential purchases get away. Mobile-payments provider The MoBank Group plans to help such retailers to overcome that problem.
March 13 -
Ingenico SA will make wireless mobile-payment and countertop chip-and-PIN terminals available to taxicabs throughout the United Kingdom after striking a deal with SilverPay Services Ltd., the French terminal maker announced March 12.
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PayPal Inc. is redesigning its website and smartphone application to downplay online payments and give more prominence to its newer products, such as its point-of-sale payment system.
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Thales e-Security Inc. and Aconite have joined forces to make smart card transactions more secure, whether from an EMV card or mobile device.
March 13 -
Visa Inc. is asserting that the acquiring industry has had sufficient notice of the card brand’s new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee, which takes effect April 1.
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China UnionPay plans to expand acceptance of its Quick Pass contactless payment technology to more retail locations, buoyed by its popularity among young and trendy customers in Mainland China.
March 12 -
A deal announced last week with Discover Financial Services would help expand use and acceptance of RuPay among residents of India's urban communities, officials from the National Payments Corp. of India tells PaymentsSource.
March 12 -
Heartland Payments Systems Inc. is expanding merchant payment-acceptance flexibility and enhancing customer convenience by making its Mobuyle platform compatible with Apple Inc. iOS mobile devices, the company announced March 12.
March 12 -
There’s a scene in “The American President” in which Richard Dreyfus, who plays Robert Rumson, a senator and presidential challenger to Michael Douglas’ President Andrew Shepherd character, speaks with a potential donor in New Hampshire. Having won her support, the Dreyfus character proclaims “I’ll be taking that money off your hands right now.”
March 9 -
The Electronic Transactions Association is pressing Visa Inc. to postpone the April 1 starting date for the new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee.
March 9 -
The Electronic Transactions Association is urging Visa Inc. to postpone the April 1 starting date for the new Fixed Acquirer Network Fee.
March 8 -
Discover Financial Services is partnering with the National Payments Corp. of India, part of the company’s ongoing effort to increase card acceptance abroad by teaming with local networks.
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LAS VEGAS–The U.S. may look like a ripe field of opportunity to some international vendors of EMV card technology and related services as the world’s largest remaining magnetic stripe card market slowly begins a five-year conversion to chip technology.
March 8 -
Hoping to improve on its new-user sign-up total a year ago, Exxon Mobil Corp. this year is adding a month to a promotion that gives Speedpass users 15 cents off each gallon of gas they buy.
March 7 -
When something is amiss at a location relying on tight security, officials often immediately implement a systems “lock down.” Imagine the same scenario on a merchant’s payment system, and one can start to understand how PaySecure software works.
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LAS VEGAS–The relatively late timing of the U.S. move to adopt the EMV smart card technology means it could dodge some of the headaches other countries experienced in shifting to EMV.
March 7 -
LAS VEGAS–Brace for more merchants to begin developing proprietary digital wallets at the same time they announce their participation in broader wallet schemes.
March 7 -
Merrill Halpern received an “unexpected benefit” when traveling recently in Europe without an EMV smart card in his wallet. He got a free cup of coffee from a coffee shop employee who felt sorry for him because she couldn’t initiate the transaction on her terminal with just Halpern’s signature.
March 7