Green Dot Corporation has announced an agreement with CardinalCommerce to "enable eCommerce merchants for the first time to receive online payments from a largely untapped consumer segment: the financially underserved community of more than 80 million "cash consumers" nationwide who do not have access to traditional bank accounts, credit cards or other financial tools."   » Continue Reading

MasterCard Worldwide and TRX have announced an agreement to develop the MasterCard Travel Dashboard, a web-based business intelligence tool that will enable companies to evaluate, analyze and optimize travel programs. According to the companies, "the proprietary tool will leverage detailed information from MasterCard's corporate card program and TRX's advanced travel data reporting tools to provide greater visibility into the performance and compliance of travel programs."   » Continue Reading

SVPCO - Electronic Clearing Services, the electronic check and check image exchange business of The Clearing House Payments Company, has announced that The Bank of New York is now participating in the SVPCO Image Payments Network.   » Continue Reading

Payment Alliance International has announced that it has acquired the principal operating assets of NetBank Payment Systems (NPS), adding over 8,500 ATMs to PAI's base to become the third largest ATM Processor in the United States.   » Continue Reading

On Friday, the Wall St. Journal published a front page story by Joseph Pereira about the TJX data breaches that he says began about two years ago outside a discount discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Bank Systems & Technology: Fraud Techniques Evolve in Parallel with Bank Products and Defenses
• ''Connected Payments'' Program from StoreNext and MTXEPS To Cut Electronic Payments Costs
• Consumer Security, Privacy Advanced with Smart Card Guard™ from National Envelope Corporation

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Mari Ellis has been named senior vice president at Blackhawk Network. Most recently, Ms. Ellis served as chief operations officer for the prepaid services group at First Data Corporation.