July 10, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: July 9-10
Green Dot’s Michael Strange joins Mitek as CTO UBPS to Acquire and Consolidate Three Business Payment Companies in Proposed $179 Million Transaction Brightwell Payments Acquires Directo and Expands Presence in...
July 06, 2012
EMV By The Numbers
As we recently reported, EMV had a big week — most notably with the release of Amex’s own EMV roadmap. With that in mind, take a closer look at exactly...
July 05, 2012
MasterCard Gets Closer to “Replacing the Fat Wallet”
Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday. @MasterCardNews: #MobilePayments”¬ are replacing the fat wallet with help from...
July 05, 2012
Inside Scoop: Credit Union Servicer Issues EMV Cards In U.S.
A credit union service organization in St. Petersburg, Fla., could suddenly be influential in introducing U.S. consumers to EMV. PSCU’s Vladimir Jovanovic, Senior Manager of Prepaid Card Products, tells us...
July 03, 2012
Florida Credit Union Is First to Issue EMV-Enabled Visa Prepaid...
PSCU says it is the first financial institution in the U.S. to issue Visa’s EMV-enabled prepaid cards to its accountholders. The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based credit union says it is targeting...
July 02, 2012
Here Comes EMV: Chase Paymentech to Sell Ingenico Terminals In...
Chase Paymentech will begin selling Ingenico’s Telium iCT250 point”of”sale (POS) terminals to U.S. merchants, a joint release says. The Telium iCT250 is fully compliant with Visa’s Technology Innovation Program, as well as...
June 29, 2012
Heartland Vice-Chairman Bob Baldwin Talks Payments’ Big Picture
Bob Baldwin joined Heartland Payment Systems in 2000, leaving COMFORCE Corp. to become the chief financial officer at what was a young payment processor at the time. Over the next...
June 20, 2012
KC Fed’s Hayashi: Mobile’s Chicken-And-Egg Problem Persists
Mobile payment applications may seem cool at first glance. But at least one industry expert isn’t quite yet convinced. Dr. Fumiko Hayashi is a Senior Economist in the Payments System...
June 19, 2012
Ingenico Signs New U.S. Distribution Deal with The Phoenix Group
Ingenico signed The Phoenix Group to a new multi-year distribution agreement according to a press release. TPG is said to be the largest independent distributor of POS terminals and solutions...