Pay By Touch has announced that Farm Fresh has completed the installation of biometric payment technology in all 41 locations across Hampton Roads and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.   » Continue Reading

Jorge Porter reports for Business News Americas on Visa's projected growth of 25% annually in its Latin America and Caribbean region for the next three to five years.   » Continue Reading

Prasad Sangameshwaran and Rituparna Chatterjee report for India's Business Standard on the growth in online ecommerce sales in India based on recent research by AC Nielsen.   » Continue Reading

Mercury Payment Systems has announced the addition of a layer of security to the gift cards it provides to merchants. A card validation code, known as the Card Validation Value (CVV), similar to what is used on bank cards to raise the level of fraud protection, is now also included on the gift cards Mercury provides.   » Continue Reading

AllAfrica.com reports on iVeri Payment Technology, a South African company that delivers mobile point of sale acceptance devices in African countries.   » Continue Reading

People's Daily Online updates its earlier story about the launch of EMV chip cards in China.   » Continue Reading

Kristen Millares Bolt and Bill Virgin report for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Costco's quiet entry into offering a wide range of financial services through partnering - without pursuing a banking charter.   » Continue Reading

JCB has announced that its international subsidiary, JCB International (JCBI), signed an ATM gateway agreement with China UnionPay (CUP) on 16 December. This will enable CUP cardholders to have access to ATM networks in Japan through a gateway platform provided by JCBI.   » Continue Reading

The Electronic Payments Network (EPN), the ACH business of The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., has announced that more than $1 billion in UPIC payments have been received by public and private entities across the United States.   » Continue Reading

Paul Wenske writes for Knight-Ridder Newspapers about "zombie debt", old charged off consumer debt that collection agencies are increasingly pursuing.   » Continue Reading

Anthony Faiola reports for the Washington Post on electronic payments in Japan.   » Continue Reading

Pay By Touch has announced the appointment of Steven Yecies as senior vice president and general manager of the company's new health care business division. Yecies will lead the company's launch into the health care industry, where Pay By Touch expects to leverage its biometric service application to make improvements for patients, providers, payers and retail pharmacists.   » Continue Reading

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