The New York City session of the Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp is a week away. Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camps provide a 'deep dive' on all aspects of the US payments systems - covering cash, checking, cards, ACH, and emerging payments including alternative online payments and mobile payments. If you'd like to attend next week's session in New York City, please register without delay! After New York, our next Payments Boot Camp will be in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 11-12.

Regis Nyamakanga writes from Johannesburg for Business Day about Fundamo, a South African mobile banking provider. 'Van Rensburg (CEO of Fundamo) said the major driver for the adoption and fast roll-out of mobile wallet was the increase in international money flows delivered to and from mobile phones.'

In today's Wall St. Journal, the sponsors of the Credit Card Fair Fee Act legislation (Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Chris Cannon) respond to the Journal's earlier editorial against the act. They argue the act is pro-competitive because it 'facilitates direct negotiations between merchants and the credit card industry on interchange fees.'

CyberSource and mPoria have announced a strategic channel partnership in which CyberSource will offer mPoria's GoMobile! m-commerce technology to its network of online merchants. 'GoMobile! enables merchants to quickly and cost-effectively build and launch a mobile shopping site, giving retailers access to more than 250 million wireless subscribers nationwide.'

iovation has announced that mobile payments provider Obopay is implementing iovation ReputationManager, iovation’s device-based fraud management service, 'to reduce the risk of online payment fraud by enhancing its ability to proactively identify devices that have been associated with fraudulent activity.'

Tony Adams writes for the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer about TSYS' announcement yesterday of its n>gen next generation processing platform designed to 'cater to a faster and more mobile business and consumer world.'

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