AccountNow has announced several new services: the addition of the iAdvance Line of Credit from MetaBank, the elimination of upfront fees for new accounts with direct deposit, and the debut of Money 411, an online financial resource center. READ MORE »

Our sister website, PaymentsJobs.com, has several new job postings:

• Payment Strategy Manager at SunTrust Bank in Atlanta
• POS Product Manager at Chase Paymentech in Tampa
• Sales Executives and a Payments Industry Relations Executive for Online Resources
• Prepaid Solutions positions at West Suburban Bank in Oak Brook, IL

If you've got current openings for payments professionals, be sure to post your requirements on PaymentsJobs.com! Featured postings on PaymentsJobs.com cost $200 for a 30-day listing.

A reminder that the Airline Payment Summit is coming up in Toronto, Ontario on April 9-10, 2008. "As airline yields come under downward pressure, Airline Payment Summit (APS) will examine leading-edge low-cost payment solutions within the landscape of traditional forms of payments such as credit cards."

Northwest Airlines has announced that it is "offering cash back into customer PayPal accounts when they purchase a ticket at www.nwa.com using PayPal for payment. PayPal is offering $50 USD cash back into customer PayPal accounts when they purchase tickets of $250 or more by March 27, 2008. Travel must take place between April 1 and June 14, 2008, and tickets must be purchased at www.nwa.com."

• CNNMoney.com: JPMorgan Chase makes $1B-plus on Visa IPO
• Chicago Tribune: Payment by fingerprint disappears
• Mobile Phones As Boarding Passes
• Birmingham News: Two sentenced for high-tech ATM thefts
• Computerworld: How they hacked it: The MiFare RFID crack explained