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Byline: Will Wade Pivotal Payments, a merchant acquirer in Melville, N.Y., has agreed to purchase up to 33,000 payment terminals from Hypercom Corp. The Scottsdale, Ariz., terminal maker said Thursday [...]

Byline: Will Wade Patelco Credit Union of San Francisco has agreed to use a core processing application from Fiserv Inc. The Brookfield, Wis., banking technology vendor said Thursday that the [...]

Byline: Will Wade Imposing a fee on debit cards would drive many consumers back to cash payments, according to a report released Thursday by Mercator Advisory Group. The Coconut Creek, [...]

Byline: Will Wade Philippine National Bank Corp. is expanding its treasury management services using software from Misys PLC. The London banking technology vendor said Thursday that Philippine National, of Manila, [...]

Byline: Will Wade A mobile payments effort seemingly designed to exclude banks may accomplish the exact opposite. Financial companies have for years been pushing the idea that mobile phones could [...]

Byline: Will Wade MasterCard Inc. on Monday named Ed McLaughlin its chief emerging payments officer, succeeding Josh Peirez. MasterCard said that Peirez has accepted a job at another company, which [...]

Byline: Will Wade Citigroup Inc. said Friday that it is offering commercial credit cards in South Africa, the 50th country its global transaction services unit has reached. The New York [...]

Byline: Will Wade Open Solutions Inc. said Monday that it has acquired Weiland Financial Group Inc., a Bannockburn, Ill., provider of account management software. The banking technology vendor, said it [...]

Byline: Will Wade Metro Bank PLC, perhaps the first new retail bank in the United Kingdom in a century, has agreed to offer MasterCard Inc. credit and debit cards to [...]

Byline: Will Wade For most bankers, compliance still means a list of chores on a piece of paper in a dusty binder. The many separate tasks are so different that [...]

Byline: Will Wade One hundred fifty credit unions have agreed to offer members a mobile banking service based on software from Fiserv Inc., including 84 that are already using it. [...]

Byline: Will Wade Sterling Savings Bank has reached a deal to implement core banking software from Fidelity National Information Services Inc. The Jacksonville, Fla., banking technology vendor said Monday that [...]

Byline: Will Wade MetaBank has announced its joining of the automated clearing house system Nacha. The Herndon, Va., electronic payments association said last week that MetaBank had become a direct [...]

Byline: Will Wade Intuit Inc.has agreed to offer personal loans facilitated through Lending ClubCorp. as an option to users of its Mint.compersonal finance section who are looking for ways to [...]

Byline: Will Wade The Federal Reserve Board is planning to offer same-day settlement for some automated clearing house payments, starting Aug. 2. On Monday, The Fed announced a set of [...]

Byline: Will Wade Sanasa Development Bank in Sri Lanka has begun using core processing software from Fiserv Inc. The Brookfield, Wis., banking technology vendor said Tuesday that Sanasa installed its [...]

Byline: Will Wade PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has struck an ATM branding deal with CardtronicsInc. The Houston automated teller machine operator said Thursday that PNC's brand would appear on [...]

Byline: Will Wade More than 100 banks and credit unions have agreed to offer the person-to-person transfer service being developed by FiservInc. The Brookfield, Wis., banking technology company said it [...]

Byline: Will Wade Mitsubishi Paper Holdings Europe GmbH has agreed to license two-sided thermal paper developed by NCR Corp. NCR, of Duluth, Ga., said Monday that the unit ofMitsubishi Corp.of [...]

Byline: Will Wade MasterCard Inc. said Monday it had hired Sachin Mehra as its corporate treasurer, replacing Andrea Robertson, who is retiring. Mehra was most recently the treasurer of Hess [...]

Byline: Will Wade MasterCard Inc. announced Tuesday an online bill-payment service that prepaid card marketers can offer to cardholders. Many prepaid card companies offer bill-pay features for specific products;MasterCard said [...]

Byline: Will Wade Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said Monday it has completed its purchase of the bill-payment provider iPay Technologies LLC. The Monett, Mo., banking technology vendor paid $300 [...]

Byline: Will Wade MasterCard Inc. introduced last week an app designed to let cardholders with Apple Inc. iPhones initiate person-to-person transfers between their MasterCard accounts, but only a single U.S. [...]

Byline: Will Wade Total System Services Inc. said Thursday that DnB NORBank, Norway's largest financial services company, has moved its MasterCard Inc. credit card portfolio to TSYS' processing system. The [...]

Byline: Will Wade If mobile payments are going to ever catch on, and it's still not certain they will, bankers need to focus more on how people want to pay [...]

Byline: Will Wade With demand surging for person-to-person transfer systems, payments companies are developing ways to make the transactions settle faster. The concept was considered little more than an interesting [...]

Byline: Will Wade MasterCard Inc. said Monday that it has hired Andrew Ong to head its worldwide person-to-person money transfer efforts. MasterCard is one of several companies that are developing [...]

Byline: Will Wade Global Payments Inc. is offering merchants in five new Asian countries the ability to accept China UnionPay cards. The Atlanta processor said Wednesday that its Asian joint [...]

Byline: Will Wade SEATTLE - Square Inc. has finally shared some of the details about its mobile card acceptance system, but payments executives still feel as if they haven't heard [...]

Byline: Andrew Johnson and Will Wade SEATTLE - Nacha is pushing forward with a program aimed at making online billpresentment less costly for banks to offer their customers. The Herndon, [...]

Byline: Will Wade NCR Corp. announced Monday that it has hired Jennifer Daniels as its general counsel and corporate secretary. Daniels reports directly to Bill Nuti, the chairman and chief [...]

Byline: Will Wade E-Commerce Association of Singapore has agreed to offer its online merchant clients payments services from PayPal Inc. The trade group said Friday that it had become a [...]

Byline: Will Wade Lending Club Corp. said Wednesday that it has raised $24.5 million in venture capital funding. The Redwood City, Calif., company said it would use the funds to [...]

Byline: Will Wade Four new merchants have agreed to participate in MasterCard Inc.'s Easy Savings program, offering rebates to participating business customers who use the Purchase, N.Y., payments company's credit, [...]

Byline: Will Wade Consumers' confidence in the economy fell in March after two consecutive months of gains, according to data from Discover Financial Services. The Riverwoods, Ill., credit card company's [...]

Byline: Will Wade A major German drugstore chain has agreed to buyHypercom Corp. payment terminals. The Phoenix terminal maker said Tuesday that Dirk Rossmann GmbH is purchasing more than 5,000 [...]

Byline: Will Wade PayPal Inc.'s mobile payment applicationhas been downloaded more than a million times since it was released three weeks ago on Apple Inc.'s App Store. The payments unit [...]

Byline: Will Wade Medical marijuana dispensaries in three states have agreed to use payment processing services from Cannabis Medical Solutions Inc. The Los Angeles merchant acquirer specializes in payment services [...]

Byline: Will Wade USA Technologies Inc. said Thursday that more than 71,000 vending machines and other self-serve systems are now linked to its payments network. That total is up 12.3% [...]

Byline: Will Wade MoneyGram International Inc. said Thursday it has hired Juan Agualimpia as a senior vice president and its chief marketing officer to oversee the company's global branding and [...]

Byline: Will Wade The wireless communications technology provider Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego has hired Rocco Fabiano as the president of its Firethorn Holdings LLC unit. Fabiano succeeds Firethorn founder [...]

Byline: Will Wade Lee Kennedy has stepped down as the vicechairman of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. Kennedy was named a director of the Jacksonville, Fla., banking technology company in [...]

Byline: Will Wade Heartland Payment Systems Inc. is expanding into payrollmanagement witha system called PlusOne Payroll. Heartland, a transaction processor based in Princeton, N.J., developed the system with the Cleveland [...]

Byline: Will Wade Members of Generation Y are more likely to have both debit cards and savings accounts than any other age group, according to a report released Monday byFiserv [...]

Byline: Will Wade The online bill-payment vendor iPay Technologies Inc. has introduced an electronic invoicing system for small businesses. The Elizabethtown, Ky., company's Billpayperless system, announced Monday, lets businesses set [...]

Byline: Will Wade and Steve Bills The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it's a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into [...]

Byline: Will Wade Small-business owners do not expect any major improvement in the economy in the next few months, according to data fromDiscover Financial Services. The Riverwoods, Ill., credit card [...]

Byline: Will Wade Monitise Americas LLC is planning to introduce a version of its Mobile Money application for phones that use Google Inc.'s Android operating system. The Providence, R.I., company [...]

Byline: Will Wade Jack Henry & Associates Inc. said Thursday that it is reviving the Alogent brand name for its line of check imaging applications. Alogent Corp. was acquired in [...]

Byline: Will Wade Target Corp. customers can now store gift card account data electronically and make payments at the point of sale with mobile phones. 'Mobile devices are becoming a [...]