Friday, July 27, 2012

Philadelphia Fed offers payment conference summary

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We are pleased to announce the release of "Government Use of the Payment Card System: Issuance, Acceptance, and Regulation," a conference summary by Payment Cards Center Industry Specialist Susan Herbst-Murphy. This paper summarizes a conference held on July 11 and 12, 2011. The conference explored the reasons why the public sector has adopted payment card options, the benefits that have resulted, and the challenges that must be managed.

You can access this paper on the center's web page at: http://www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-credit-and-payments/ .

We have also made our quarterly update to the consumer credit and payment statistics.

You can access these statistics on the center's statistics web page at: http://www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-credit-and-payments/statistics/ .

The Payment Cards Center of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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Apple Buys Authentec for $356 Million, NFC Based Decision?


  1. Apple buys security company AuthenTec Inc for $365 million

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  2. AuthenTec: another piece of an Apple mobile payments plan?

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    GigaOM - 28 minutes ago
    Apple's intent to acquire AuthenTec is another possible clue, ... quick and easy payment (just click to buy and enter your Apple ID password) ...

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  3. Apple agrees to buy AuthenTec for $356 million

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    Apple Inc. has agreed to buy AuthenTec Inc. for $356 million, according to CF News...
  4. Apple's Authentec Buy Hints At Secure iPad

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NFC Chips Used for Mobile Payment Could Let Hackers Into Your Phone


by Tom Simonite for Technology Review
android-phone-600In a packed room at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas yesterday, an Android smartphone was tapped with a white plastic card, and within seconds it was running malicious code that allowed an attacker to remotely access the device.
The demonstration was given by high-profile hacker Charlie Miller, who was the first person to demonstrate a way to seize control of the iPhone, in 2007, and who has demonstrated many novel attacks on Apple devices since. He outlined a number of reasons why the contactless near-field communication, or NFC, chips appearing in smartphones will bring new security worries as well as convenient new features — a talk that was the result of nine months of research.
“There’s going to be a lot of phones coming out with this technology, and so it would be nice to know if there’s any security problems in it,” said Miller.  red more at Mashable
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Apple's NFC Patent for iPhone 5


Apple patent highlights NFC tech

Posted on July 27, 2012 - 09:03 by Mark Raby

A newly uncovered Apple patent shows that the iPhone 5 is likely to have NFC functionality.  NFC, near field communication, is a feature that enables users to tap their phones with other NFC phones or with another third-party gadget in order to unlock content.

This Apple patent shows users being able to use their iPhone to connect to an Apple TV, video game console, speaker system, and more.
It basically would turn a phone - potentially the iPhone 5 - into a universal remote control, with functionality that could continue to be expanded.  read more





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$84.4 Million Tab for Global Payment Breach



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$84.4 Million Tab for Global Payment Breach
Global Payments Inc. (GPN) said Thursday a security breach that exposed potentially millions of consumers' payment cards to fraudsters will cost it $84.4 million.
The Atlanta-based company, which processes card transactions for banks and merchants, recorded a pre-tax charge for the amount, equal to 68 cents of diluted per-share earnings, in the fiscal fourth quarter. The amount reflects expected charges from payment networks such as Visa Inc. (V) and MasterCard Inc. (MA) and expenses related to its investigation and remediation of the matter.
"We recently completed our data intrusion investigation, and we are focused on executing the remediation plan," Chairman and Chief Executive Paul Garcia said in a statement.
The company disclosed the breach in late March, saying it believed no more than 1.5 million card numbers were "exported" or taken from its processing network. Last month, though, it said it supplied a larger number of card numbers to the payment networks for monitoring.

Visa's "Go World" Campaign = 28 Million Cheers for Olympic Games

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Visa’s Go World Campaign Generates More Than 28 Million Cheers Prior to London 2012 Olympic Games in 11 Weeks

Most Cheers Pour out of US, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Australia
SAN FRANCISCO--()--Visa announced today that its largest global and most social marketing campaign in the company’s history has generated a record 28 million cheers prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Visa reports that the top seven most-active “cheering” countries are the United States, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia.
“Social media has transformed how our consumers engage with the Visa brand and our Team Visa athletes”
Go World encourages consumers to cheer via Facebook, Youku and Sina-Weibo in China, VKontakte in Russia, YouTube and Twitter (US), to inspire Team Visa athletes at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Since the campaign launched in May, fans have cheered in the form of liking the Visa Facebook page, submitting photos, videos and text cheers and performing one-click cheers through Visa’s Cheer application on Facebook, viewing and sharing video content on YouTube, as well as including the campaign’s hashtag (#VisaGoWorld) on Twitter (@TeamVisa) and cheering through partner websites.
Highlights include:
Facebook
  • 1.9 million fan “Likes” on Visa’s Facebook page
  • 400,000 cheers for 69 Team Visa athletes in the form of a one-click cheers and text, photo or video submissions
YouTube
  • 25.7 million views of Visa’s Go World commercials, behind-the-scenes athlete content and consumer-generated cheer videos
  • Globally, the most viewed Go World commercials include:
1.
“The Difference”* (8.5 million views)
2.
“Double Beach Volleyball” (3.4 million views) featuring Brazilian Team Visa athletes Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti
3.
“A Very High Dive”* (3.2 million views) featuring Team Visa athletes David Boudia (US; diving) and Hugo Parisi (Brazil; diving)
4.
“100th of a Second” (1.9 million views) featuring US Team Visa athlete Michael Phelps (swimming)
5.
“Perfect 10” (1.1 million views) featuring Olympic legend Nadia Comaneci
6.
“Yelena” (1.3 million views) featuring Russian Team Visa athlete Yelena Isinbaeva (pole vault).  
The five most cheered for Team Visa athletes around the world include:
1.Li Na (tennis, China)
2.Yelena Isinbaeva (pole vault, Russia)
3.Michael Phelps (swimming, USA)
4.Lopez Lomong (track & field, USA)
5.Azizul Awang (track cyclist, Malaysia)
Within the United States, the five most cheered for Team Visa athletes include:
1.Michael Phelps (swimming)
2.Lopez Lomong (track & field)
3.Nastia Liukin (gymnastics)
4.David Boudia (diving)
5.Alana Nichols (wheelchair basketball)
“Social media has transformed how our consumers engage with the Visa brand and our Team Visa athletes,” said Kevin Burke, CMO of Core Products, Visa Inc. “Because Go World is social at its core, we are bringing consumers together in conversation to inspire Olympic athletes and are extremely pleased by the campaign’s early results. In addition, our Team Visa athletes have told us they’re thrilled and humbled by outpouring of support they’ve received from fans everywhere.”
To learn more about Go World or to view and download images, videos and other assets, visit www.visa.com/olympicmediakit.
* Reflects combined totals of different versions and languages of the same spots worldwide
About Visa Inc.
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable digital currency. Underpinning digital currency is one of the world's most advanced processing networks--VisaNet--that is capable of handling more than 20,000 transactions a second, with fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank, and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: Pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.

RushCard and Green Dot Join Forces on Exclusive Distribution Deal

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NEW YORK & MONROVIA, Calif.--()--UniRush, LLC – provider of the Prepaid Visa® RushCard co-founded by Russell Simmons, and Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) – an industry-leading provider of low-cost banking and payment solutions, announced today that the two companies have entered into an exclusive multi-year distribution agreement. The Agreement provides that Green Dot Bank will serve as the exclusive issuer of the retail version of the RushCard, with Green Dot Corporation serving as a co-manager on the portfolio with UniRush. Green Dot has also agreed to make the product available for sale by select Green Dot retail partners nationwide, which includes many of the leading national grocery, mass merchandise, drug and convenience store chains.
“Green Dot has a long-standing reputation and expertise in the prepaid industry and the retail distribution channel and we are thrilled to be partnering with them”
The introduction of RushCard through the retail channel is expected to significantly expand UniRush LLC’s customer base by allowing consumers to purchase RushCard at many of their favorite retailers nationwide, while providing Green Dot with new, incremental sales through its large, nationwide retail distribution channel.
"Green Dot has a long-standing reputation and expertise in the prepaid industry and the retail distribution channel and we are thrilled to be partnering with them,” said RushCard founder and prepaid card innovator, Russell Simmons. “RushCard has been committed to meeting the needs of its growing, dynamic community of customers for nearly a decade. By partnering with Green Dot, we will effectively enhance our overall customer experience by making it even easier for individuals to access RushCard when they want, where they want.”
“We believe that joining forces with Russell Simmons and distributing the RushCard at retail will be helpful in expanding our overall category sales by providing our retailers with a differentiated and innovative product with strong brand appeal,” said Steve Streit, Chairman and CEO, Green Dot Corporation. “RushCard has had success for nearly a decade in building one of the largest and most successful prepaid online programs. We welcome a retail partnership with Russell Simmons and his great team.”
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Russell Simmons co-founded UniRush, LLC in 2003, and the subsequent launch of the RushCard was one of the first prepaid Visa Debit cards available to the underserved consumer. The company was born of Russell’s personal belief that everyone deserves access to the financial mainstream and a set of basic financial capabilities that are secure, convenient, affordable, and dignified. Today, RushCard is an intelligent payment platform and traditional banking alternative that offers budgeting tools, card to card transfer services, mobile features and many other valuable services to a diverse group of Americans looking for alternative banking solutions. RushCard continues to provide exceptional service and cardholder benefits that allow our cardholders to get ahead in their financial lives.




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Inside Secure Appoints EVP for NFC & Secure Payments Division


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 July 27, 2012 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

INSIDE Secure Appoints Pierre Garnier as Executive Vice President for NFC & Secure Payment Division

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--()--INSIDE Secure, a leader in semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, today announced the appointment of Pierre Garnier as executive vice president of the NFC and Secure Payment division and member of the management board, effective as of August 1, 2012. Mr. Garnier replaces Charles Walton who will be leaving the company later in August to become chief executive officer of Canadian company SecureKey, a partner of INSIDE Secure in the NFC and secure transactions industry.
Mr. Garnier’s mission will be to continue driving the NFC business of INSIDE Secure as the market develops, leveraging the company’s disruptive innovations such as “NFC booster” on a SIM card, as well as the strong intellectual property assets of the company. Additionally, he will supervise the introduction of a new range of secure payment semiconductor platforms for the future U.S. EMV market.
Prior to joining INSIDE Secure, Mr. Garnier was vice president and general manager at Texas Instruments (TI), where he was in charge of the worldwide baseband business and worldwide wireless strategic programs. At TI, he also managed equity investment and acquisition activities within the wireless ecosystem. Prior to TI, he was chairman and CEO of Everbee Networks, a company developing systems-on-chips for personal Internet security devices. Before that, Mr. Garnier was general manager of the Alcatel Microelectronics broadband access business, which he founded and turned into a world-leading ADSL chipset maker before it was acquired by STMicroelectronics in 2002.
A French national, Mr. Garnier graduated from Supelec engineering school and holds a postgraduate degree in solid-state physics.
Charles Walton will continue to be closely associated with INSIDE Secure as he will become a member of the advisory board.
Commenting on this appointment, Rémy de Tonnac, chief executive officer of INSIDE Secure, said: “We are delighted to welcome Pierre to this key position within the company and are convinced that his experience and impressive track-record will be key assets for our company. I would also like to thank Charlie for his exceptional contribution to the development and success of INSIDE Secure over the last seven years and I am very happy to have him join our advisory board so that he can keep contributing to INSIDE Secure in a new way.”
About INSIDE Secure
INSIDE Secure (NYSE Euronext: INSD.PA) is a leading designer, developer and supplier of semiconductors, embedded software and platforms for secure transactions and digital security. INSIDE mobile NFC, secure payment and digital security products provide security for a wide range of information processing, storage and transmission applications. The company’s customers are found in a wide range of markets including mobile payment, identification documents, access control, transit, electronic device manufacturing, pay television and mobile service operators. For more information, visit www.insidesecure.com.


Mercury Delivers Industry’s First Mobile, Social Loyalty Offering to Boost SMB Revenue and Retention at POS

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Mercury Delivers Industry’s First Mobile, Social Loyalty Offering to Boost SMB Revenue and Retention at POS

DURANGO, Colo.--()--Mercury® today announced MercuryLoyalty™ – the industry’s first card-less loyalty solution that integrates mobile and social technology into point-of-sale (POS) systems across the country.
“We strive to have our Yogurtini franchisees create individual relationships with their customers”
MercuryLoyalty was designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) to increase revenue and customer retention using the latest in social and mobile technologies – helping put them on the same loyalty marketing playing field as big box retailers. Using MercuryLoyalty, SMBs can more easily attract new customers, retain existing customers, better understand buying behaviors, improve customer engagement, and measure ROI – all automatically. Additionally, the MercuryLoyalty offering creates differentiation opportunities and a new revenue stream for Mercury’s developer and reseller partners.
Available immediately through Mercury’s extensive partner network, the new MercuryLoyalty offering will also be demonstrated at the RetailNOW 2012 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (July 28 - Aug.1) and has been extensively Beta tested by Mercury customers including Yogurtini, a fast-growing frozen-yogurt company with franchise locations nationwide.
“We strive to have our Yogurtini franchisees create individual relationships with their customers,” said Carell Grass, VP of Operations at Yogurtini. “And the MercuryLoyalty program gives us a powerful but personal approach to initiate conversations with customers that’s easy to use – for them and us. With MercuryLoyalty, we’ve been able to introduce new products, provide special offers, and better understand our customers’ behavior – all of which have helped increase loyalty and revenue.”
For merchants using MercuryLoyalty, customers simply sign in at the POS using a mobile device and are instantly credited and rewarded for their transaction. The data from the purchase is bundled with their previous shopping history – including info from any previous card-based loyalty system – and stored in memory for the life of the POS. In addition, MercuryLoyalty supports Mercury’s patent-pending, closed-loop coupon redemption process. Together, these tools provide cumulative intelligence that helps merchants reduce operating costs and support issues while creating highly customized offers to loyal customers based on past purchases and anticipated future needs.
“Building highly engaged, profitable relationships with consumers continues to be the number one challenge for most retailers – and the companies that serve them,” said Matt Taylor, CEO, Mercury. “At Mercury, we want to help remove that barrier by offering smart, easy-to-use and affordable new solutions like MercuryLoyalty. MercuryLoyalty gives everyone in the retail value chain – from developers to resellers to merchants – a way to increase revenue and differentiate their business. We’re excited about the possibilities it represents and the opportunity we have to lead the way in integrated POS mobile and social marketing."
MercuryLoyalty – along with the company’s new branding initiative – marks the next in a series of steps aimed at enabling Mercury to better serve its partners and the SMB market. Along with the acquisition of Sundrop, Inc. earlier this year -- which led to the creation of MercuryLoyalty – the company is investing in new technologies and services in key areas including mobile and social to continue driving revenue and growth opportunities for its partners and customers.
According to Aberdeen Group’s “Next Generation Customer Loyalty” report, while only 24 percent of retail respondents used a centralized, cross-channel customer loyalty platform in 2011, an additional 62 percent plan to implement the technology in 2012 or 2013. And with mobile devices achieving greater worldwide market penetration than bank accounts, safe drinking water and electricity (source: Chetan Sharma Technology & Strategy Consulting) and m-commerce expected to reach $31 billion by 2015 (source: eMarketer), the time has never been better for a mobile-social loyalty solution.
For more information on MercuryLoyalty or any Mercury solutions, please visit: www.MecuryPay.com.
About Mercury
Mercury (formerly Mercury Payment Systems) is one of the fastest-growing payment processing companies in North America. Mercury is a trusted, award-winning channel partner to over 500 point-of-sale (POS) Independent Software Vendors and 2,500 POS Value Added Resellers, delivering secure and reliable integrated payments and visionary technology leadership to the industry. Mercury is pioneering the "Social POS," empowering its merchants to identify, acquire and retain customers through unique engagement and closed-loop measurement using Mercury's patent-pending SaaS mobile loyalty platform. www.MercuryPay.com.

Isis Mobile Pay Service to debut on BlackBerry, Android and iPhone



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Thursday, July 26, 2012

ACI Worldwide reports quarterly loss

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Source: ACI Worldwide, 26 July, 2012

ACI Worldwide reports quarterly loss

ACI Worldwide (ACIW), a leading international provider of payment systems, today announced financial results for the period ended June 30, 2012.
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"We are very satisfied with our integration efforts of S1 during the last quarter and a half. We delivered on the initial cost synergies of $33 million and are progressing against an additional $20 million in planned synergies related to facilities consolidation and IT infrastructure rationalization. We expect that this second phase of identified margin improvements will enable us to achieve a more profitable 2013 and beyond," said Chief Executive Officer Philip Heasley. "Importantly, the quarter also included critical customer and industry events in June in which we unveiled our combined product roadmaps. Today ACI offers the most comprehensive suite of solutions to address the complex needs of the global payments marketplace," continued Mr Heasley.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
2012 Guidance
We are reiterating our 2012 full year guidance for non-GAAP Operating Income and Adjusted EBITDA ranges of $99-104 million and $165-170 million respectively. We are revising our revenue range to reflect both foreign exchange movement year-to-date as well as incremental purchase accounting adjustments. Hence, guidance for the calendar year is as follows: GAAP Revenue to achieve a range of $683-693 million, non-GAAP Operating Income of $99-104 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $165-170 million. Guidance for the year excludes $31 million of acquisition related fees; inclusive of $16 million of professional fees and transaction-related expenses largely incurred in the first quarter as well as $15 million of facilities and IT infrastructure related costs identified during the second quarter.
Acquisition Synergies
Upon full implementation, ACI anticipates annualized savings of $53 million from the cost synergies effected. We expect to achieve an annualized run rate of $48 million in savings by the end of 2012 and attain an annualized run rate of $53 million in savings by the end of 2013. Year to date, ACI has spent $22.6 million on SG&A, Facilities and IT rationalization and anticipates spending a further $8.4 million on facilities and IT infrastructure exit costs during calendar year 2012.
Sales
Sales bookings in the quarter totaled $156.2 million. In the prior-year quarter sales bookings were $147.0 million. S1 contributed $39.2 million to sales in the quarter. ACI organic sales variance is related to timing of large term extensions. Sales and projects were impacted during the quarter by customers waiting to make purchasing decisions pending the release of our combined product strategy that was unveiled in June.
Backlog
Excluding negative foreign exchange translation of $23.5 million, 60-month backlog grew $12.8 million in the quarter. 60-month backlog as of June 30, 2012 was $2.306 billion. 12-month backlog decreased $12 million to $570 million as compared to $582 million at March 31, 2012. 12-month backlog was reduced by $6.2 million due to foreign exchange movements in the quarter.
Revenue
GAAP revenue increased to $149.8 million or an increase of $36.4 million, or 32%, over prior-year quarter. The acquisition of S1 Corporation contributed $43.1 million of revenue in the second quarter. Organic revenue decreased as compared to prior-year quarter primarily due to the following factors: timing of non-recurring license and services revenue of approximately $10.0 million pushed out to the second half of the year as well as a $3.0 million reduction due to foreign currency movements. Non-GAAP revenue increased $46.1 million, or 41%, over prior-year quarter. Non-GAAP revenue excludes the impact of $9.6 million of deferred revenue that would have been recognized in the normal course of business by S1 but was not recognized due to GAAP purchase accounting requirements.
Operating Expenses
Excluding $7.6 million of S1 acquisition related one-time expenses related for IT-related infrastructure exit costs and severance expense, operating expenses increased $47.1 million compared to the prior year quarter due to the addition of $45.0 million of S1 expenses inclusive of $4.0 million of intangibles amortization. Total GAAP operating expenses for the quarter were $157.7 million.
Operating Income/Loss
Consolidated GAAP operating loss was $7.9 million for the quarter. Non-GAAP operating income decreased $1.0 million, or 10%, compared to the prior-year quarter. Non-GAAP operating income excludes the $9.6 million deferred revenue adjustment due to purchase accounting as well as the impact of $7.6 million of one-time expenses related to IT-related infrastructure exit costs and severance.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA increased to $25.7 million, an improvement of $5.8 million, or 29%, compared to the prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA excludes the impact of $9.6 million of deferred revenue that would have been recognized in the normal course of business by S1 but was not recognized due to GAAP purchase accounting requirements and $7.6 million of acquisition related one-time expenses.
Liquidity
We had $149.6 million in cash on hand as of June 30, 2012. The Company also paid $3.1 million in principal payments for the term credit facility during the second quarter 2012. During the second quarter, we repurchased 961,692 shares for $37.8 million. The remaining dollar value of shares authorized for purchase under the stock repurchase program was approximately $31.0 million.
Operating Free Cash Flow
Operating free cash flow ("OFCF") for the quarter was $(3.8) million, a decrease of $5.4 million as compared to the prior-year quarter.
Other Expense
Other expense for the quarter was $3.0 million, a reduction of $3.1 million as compared to other income of $0.1 million in the prior-year quarter. The variance was driven by higher interest expense of $2.5 million as well as negative foreign exchange variance of $0.6 million.
Taxes
Income tax benefit in the quarter was $6.2 million, or a 57.1% effective tax rate, compared to income tax expense of $0.7 million, or a 6.7% rate, in the prior-year quarter. The income tax benefit for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 was due to the beneficial impact of domestic losses at the U.S. tax rate offset by foreign income at lower tax rates.
Net Income (loss) and Diluted Earnings Per Share
Net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 was $4.7 million, compared to net income of $9.8 million during the same period last year.
Earnings (loss) per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 was $(0.12) per diluted share compared to $0.29 per diluted share during the same period last year. Excluding the impact of $7.6 million of S1 acquisition related one-time expenses and the impact of $9.6 of million deferred revenue that would have been recognized in the normal course of business by S1 but was not recognized due to GAAP purchase accounting requirements, earnings per share was $0.16 per diluted share.
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding
Total diluted weighted average shares outstanding were 39.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 as compared to 34.3 million shares outstanding for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. The number of weighted average shares outstanding was increased by 5.8 million due to the issuance of shares related to the acquisition of S1 Corporation. 6.7 million options to purchase shares, restricted share awards, common stock warrants and contingently issuable shares were excluded from the diluted earnings per share computation as their effect would have been anti-dilutive. 

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