Catuity has announced that it can now issue Visa, MasterCard and Discover branded stored value cards for retailers. It also announced that industry veteran Rose Zwirn has been named Director of Stored Value Programs to oversee both branded and proprietary card programs for clients.   » Continue Reading

Pay By Touch has announced that 13 Mobile Gas Station Wallis Convenience Stores in Missouri are now capable of handling finger-scan payments. As an introductory offer, when customers sign up for the service at participating Mobil stores, they will receive a discount of 10 cents per gallon of gas purchased the first time they pay with their finger.   » Continue Reading

The Official Google Blog reports this morning that "everyone who buys something for $20 or more through Google Checkout all day today (August 10th) gets a free (Google Checkout) T-shirt. So find something you want to buy, enjoy faster checkout online -- and make room in the drawer for your new apparel." The list of online merchants now using Google Checkout continues to expand. Google's also posted a new online presentation for merchants on how to process orders and support customers with Google Checkout.

Eric Dash writes for the New York Times about how banks may be approaching market saturation in terms of physical world branches - or stores as they're increasingly called.

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