NWP Services Corporation (NWP) and CheckFree have announced that Alliance Residential Management has selected the aBreeze solution to provide electronic payment options for residents at 153 owned or professionally managed multi-housing properties.

MasterCard has filed an 8-K with the SEC disclosing its compensation plan for members of its Board of Directors. MasterCard has also appointed Bernard S.Y. Fung, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Region of Aon Asia Limited, to become a Class A director of the MasterCard Board of Directors.

The latest Nilson Report has arrived featuring an in-depth look at general purpose bank cards in Europe (subscription only). Among other feature articles, this issue also has an interesting article discussing ACH Payments in the US and on credit card debt sales.

Intel, Microsoft, and Japan's Edy electronic money service promoter bitWallet Inc. have announced that they will "strengthen their ties in a bid to expand e-services using Sony Corp.'s contactless IC card technology" known as FeliCa.

Discover Network, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and Morgan Stanley, has announced that it has reached agreements with five financial institutions to issue credit or prepaid cards on the Discover(R) Network. New network issuers include: Alliance Data, Dallas, Texas; First Bank & Trust, Brookings, S.D.; Morgan Beaumont Inc., Bradenton, Fla.; West Suburban Bancorp Inc., Lombard, Ill.; and Palm Desert National Bank, Palm Desert, Calif.

PayPal has opened a new online PayPal Developer Community featuring discussion forums on a number of topics as well as a new PayPal Developer Blog. One particularly interesting post on the new blog covers Saturday's session "PayPal’s Digital Money Platform" presented by Tim Villanueva, General Manager for the PayPal Platform & Developer Network.

Richard Morochove of PC World writes about what's involved in becoming an online merchant - and getting paid for what you sell online - recommending PayPal's Website Payments Standard as an easy and cost effective way to start.

365 Connect has announced it has partnered with PropertyBridge to provide an online rent payment platform to will enable residents in communities that utilize 365 Connect’s Resident Services Portal to pay rent using any of six payment types including payment cards (credit and debit), ACH, and e-checks.

KLTV in Tyler, Texas takes a look at how a mobile payment service like Obopay, TextPayMe, or PayPal Mobile can be used to settle up among friends. "Each service operates differently, but the basic idea is the same. To pay someone...you text a code or command to the company along with the amount and the recipient's cell phone number."

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