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In an article titled "Airlines Want Cash. Card Firms Stiffen Terms. Who'll Blink?", Robin Sidel and Susan Carey write for the Wall St. Journal about negotiations between US airlines and credit card issuers over negotiations to provide the airlines with
ACI Gift Cards, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has announced the launch of Amazon Gift Codes On Demand™ (AGC On Demand), a real-time electronic gift-card distribution option available from the Amazon Corporate Gift Card program. According to the company, "AGC
Billing Revolution, a Seattle-based mobile commerce company, has announced "single-click" - calling it "a mobile billing and payments service designed to make it easy once and for all for retailers to sell products to on-the-go consumers without sacrificing high profits
During August, PayPal hosted four webinars on various subjects of interest to online ecommerce merchants. If you missed the webinars, online archives of each of the webinars are now available. The topics include: Capturing the Voice of Your Customer to
Mocapay has announced that it has been selected by Smart Transaction Systems (STS) as a mobile marketing and payment platform to mobilize STS's card-based payment systems. Mocapay's mobile marketing and payment platform enables real-time mobile payments, promotions and loyalty at
In an article titled "Could this chip have prevented the TJX breach?", Ross Kerber reports for the Boston Globe on an interview with TJX vice chairman Donald G. Campbell who is "urging banks and other retailers to embrace a multibillion-dollar
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Google Says Big in Japan's Mobile-Phone App Is a Winner Nuance Enables Secure Customer Service Through Voice Biometric Deployment Best Practice Bank of America Achieves Supply Chain Milestone - Notches 50,000th Vendor on PayMode(R) Electronic Payment and Invoicing Network CyberSource
that "examines the venerable world of private label and co-branded retailer credit cards, and the market forces that are shaping this segment. The vast majority of retailers have turned their programs over to third party issuers, but these retailers' interest
Juniper Research has announced a new report titled "Mobile Payment Markets Strategies & Forecasts 2008-2013" that concludes that "purchases via mobile devices of digital and physical goods, contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions and money transfers will together generate transactions
TSYS has announced that China UnionPay Data Services Co., Ltd. ("CUP Data"), TSYS' joint venture with China UnionPay, has signed a debit card processing agreement with Citibank (China) Co., Ltd. ("Citi China").
Bob Lawless writes on the Credit Slips blog that that "U.S. bankruptcy filing rate climbed again in August, reaching a new post-2005 high of 4,476 filings per day." At this year's average rate of 4,160 bankruptcy filings per day per
Glenbrook's Bryan Derman and Jim Salters take a fresh look at online bill presentment following a recent announcement by AT&T Mobility that it would begin delivering bills electronically through CheckFree-powered bank bill payment sites.
Visa has announced it is launching four new programs to deliver payments and services via mobile devices. Two commercial mobile payments programs, in Brazil and Korea, along with two mobile offers and transaction notification pilots in the United States, add
Tomorrow, Wells Fargo is announcing enhancements to its CEO Mobile service, a browser-based mobile banking service for its corporate banking customers that remains unique among major financial institutions in the US. Users of CEO Mobile can now initiate and approve
Visa Inc. has announced the appointment of Bill Sheedy as President, North America. Visa says Sheedy will oversee Visa Inc.'s relationships with card issuers, merchants, merchant acquirers and third-party processors in the United States and Canada. He will report to
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Payments Cards Center has extracted payment-card-related items from the Bank's quarterly legislative update. "Among other topics, this issue contains information about a proposed rule to require creditors to provide risk-based pricing notices to consumers
Bill Me Later has announced it will host a webinar on Thursday, September 18, at 1 PM EDT where Russ Jones and Allen Weinberg of Glenbrook Partners will provide an in-depth look at how retailers evaluate alternative payments.
