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- Accceptance News
- Discover Financial Services announced plans to acquire the Diners Club International Network from Citigroup to expand acceptance of Discover Cards worldwide. (See more Discover news.)
- Processor News
- Mastercard Introduced a new debit card processing platform named MasterCard Integrated Processing Solutions (IPS) (See more MasterCard news.)
- HomeATM Challenges ATMDirect's Technology
- TSYS announced n>gen - calling it "a new business paradigm that makes it easy for TSYS clients to efficiently and thoroughly manage all their complex payments-related business needs with point-and-click ease." (See more TSYS news).
- Mobile Payments News
- Obopay selected iovation for anti-fraud services on the Obopay mobile payments platform. (See more Obopay news).
- PayMate introduced GiftMate mobile vouchers for instant gifting to friends and relatives in India. (See more PayMate news).
- Fundamo, a South Africa-based mobile banking provider, pursues international expansion out of Africa.
- CyberSource and mPoria announced a strategic channel partnership for mPoria's GoMobile! m-commerce technology.
- US Payment Card Interchange Fee News
- The sponsors of the Credit Card Fair Fee Act legislation (Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Chris Cannon) responded to the Wall St. Journal's earlier editorial arguing against the act.
- The National Association of Convenience Stores complained that "the industry's credit card fees are now more than double the industry's pretax profits." (See more Interchange Fee news).
- On Friday, the AP published a survey story about merchant concerns with credit card interchange fees.
- New Services
- HSBC and Loyalty Lab formed an alliance to offer advanced loyalty and customer retention marketing (CRM) capabilities to retailers.
- Bank of America announced the Bank of America Visa Supply Shelf card, a prepaid debit card for teachers. (See more Bank of America news).
- Vesdia announced the expansion of its merchant-funded rewards network.
- Merchant Acquiring News
- Frontier Airlines filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy late Thursday blaming its credit card processor, First Data Corp., for imposing holds on funds that necessitated the filing.
- The ETA Annual Conference and Expo is being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas next week. Glenbrook's Allen Weinberg will be there.
- Commercial Card News
- Wells Fargo announced that it will offer proprietary single-use accounts to its commercial card customers for business-to-business (B2B) purchases. (See more Wells Fargo news.)
- SunTrust announced the launch of its Enterprise Spend Platform - "an industry-leading end-to-end commercial card management solution." (See more SunTrust news.)
- The US Government Accountability Office published a report on abuses associated with US Government purchasing cards.
- Fraud News
- PayPal published a paper titled "A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing" describing the techniques PayPal has used to significantly reduce phishing attacks on PayPal customers. (See more PayPal news.)
- Organizational News
- Visa named Tim Wilson as Head of Visa Canada, succeeding retiring Derek Fry.
