The new issue of the ABA Banking Journal has an article titled "Still in the payments game?" (PDF) written by Lauren Bielski. The cover of the Journal asks whether payments is the lost franchise for banks?

The Government Accountability Office has published a new report titled "Personal Information: Data Breaches Are Frequent, but Evidence of Resulting Identity Theft Is Limited; However, the Full Extent Is Unknown" (PDF).

Carly Weeks writes for the Vancouver Sun about increasing merchant concerns about chargebacks -

Jane Larson writes for the Arizona Republic about the acquisition of EFD/eFunds Corp. by Fidelity National Information Services announced last week and what that might mean for jobs in the Scottsdale headquarters of EFD.

Contactless News reports that "India's E3India is researching and planning on releasing a new mobile-commerce product, V-Cash, to enable payments to vendors directly through cellphones."

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