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• Tempo Payments seeks a Product Manager based in San Mateo, California
  
• Accenture is looking for Payments Consultants/Managers based in Charlotte, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco
  
• The US Department of the Treasury is seeking a Financial Program Specialist (Project Manager) based in Washington, DC
  
• The Payments Card Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is looking for a Payments Card Industry Specialist based in Philadelphia
  
• JetPay Merchant Services is seeking a Senior Business Development Manager based in Franklin, Michigan
  
• PayPal is seeking a Senior Product Marking Manager based in San Jose, California

Wells Fargo has announced its CEO Mobile service to a select group of customers, saying it has become "the first major U.S. financial services company to offer mobile service for businesses."

Celent has published a new report titled "US Mobile Banking: Beyond the Buzz" concluding that "mobile banking is here to stay and will grow significantly faster than online banking."

Evolution Benefits and The Bancorp Bank have announced an agreement to "provide an integrated solution combining The Bancorp Bank’s health savings accounts and EB’s prepaid benefits card known as Benny to support advanced consumer-directed healthcare programs. The companies’ integrated product will be available in early June."

Brink’s U.S. and Metavante have announced the launch of Metavante’s Sendpoint distributed image capture service to Brinks’ cash vaults across the country. Metavante’s Sendpoint service provides for the remote image capture and image exchange of deposits and payments received from Brink's Vaults, accelerating deposit capture from receipt through posting and presentment.

Virgin USA has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in CircleLending, Inc., a financial services company that "pioneered the business of managing loans between relatives and friends."

Acxiom has announced that it has "entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Silver Lake, the leading investment firm focused on large-scale investments in technology-driven growth industries, and ValueAct Capital, one of the largest investment firms that makes strategic block and control investments in public and private companies. Silver Lake and ValueAct Capital will acquire 100 percent of the outstanding equity interests in the company in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.0 billion, including the assumption of approximately $756 million of debt."

Alliance Data Systems Corporation has announced that it has "entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P., an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, in a transaction valued at approximately $7.8 billion, including the assumption of certain debt. Under the terms of the agreement, Blackstone will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Alliance Data for $81.75 per share in cash. The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 30 percent over Alliance Data's closing share price of $62.96 on May 16, 2007."

Dan Fost writes for the San Francisco Chronicle about the latest technology for payments that he saw at this week's CardTech/SecureTech show in San Francisco. "Allen Weinberg, a managing partner at Glenbrook Partners, a payments industry consultant in Menlo Park, said new payment methods are already showing up in places like McDonald's and 7-Eleven. He described a friend who, despite being a "mileage hound" who charged nearly every purchase to earn frequent-flier points, was reluctant to pay for his bag of burgers at McDonald's with his Visa card.
Then Weinberg tapped his wallet on the reader, it beeped, and the transaction was done. "He said, 'I would do that,' " Weinberg said. "The overriding theme is speed and convenience."

Consumer Action and American Express have announced plans to expand their jointly developed credit card education program called "Credit Cards: What You Need to Know." The program is centered on a training module with a curriculum and educational brochures, translated into five languages, that are distributed to the more than 9,000 community-based organizations within Consumer Action's network to educate consumers about how to best choose and use credit cards.

Aetna has announced it is "working with Medical Funding Services (MFS) to introduce expanded electronic options to simplify billing and reimbursement. MFS will offer its financial services and related electronic payment solutions to network health care providers in select markets. These include an online solution that combines the health plan and patient portions of a medical bill into a single payment to health care providers."

Visa International has announced results from a recent global survey titled, "Global Commercial Payment Cards: Cutting Costs and Boosting Control on a Global Stage" that finds "companies worldwide primarily implement corporate card programs for enhanced visibility into spend (nearly 70 percent), and that the number one priority for companies around the world for implementing purchasing card (P-card) programs is reducing administrative costs for transaction processing (86 percent), but the goals and growth drivers for the programs differ by region."

• PayPal Launches New Partner Program for E-Commerce Service Providers
• Fourth Annual Citi(R) Credit-Ed(R) Survey Reveals College Upperclassmen Practicing Positive Credit Management, But Still Apprehensive About Financial Responsibilities After Graduation
• JPMorgan Chase Closes Acquisition of Xign

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Debra A. Janssen has been elected to the Board of Directors of Online Resources Corporation. Earlier, she served as President of First Data Debit Services (Star Network), and as President and CEO of eFunds Corporation.
• Jerry Bartlett has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Development for First Data Resources (FDR). Bartlett was most recently with TD AMERITRADE where he oversaw all information technology (IT) initiatives.
• Chris Shultz and Claudia Zane have joined MeritCard, as equity owners, to help promote that company's Agent program. Both Chris and Claudia were with Chase Paymentech for 12 years as Regional Managers in the Strategic Partner Channel.