The Retail Council of Canada (RCC) and the "Stop Sticking It To Us" coalition, representing over 200,000 small and large businesses, said in a press release today that it "applauds the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce for announcing today that it will move forward with an investigation of Canada's credit and debit card system. The announcement follows the introduction of a motion for an investigation by Senator Pierrette Ringuette in January this year." READ MORE »

The next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp will be held in New York City next Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10-11. For more information on our Boot Camps, click here. To register, click here.

After next week's session in New York City, the next Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp will be held in Santa Clara, California on May 12-13, 2009.

Preferred Health Technology and Visa have announced an alliance making Visa the preferred payment brand for PHT's A-Claim medical payment solution for physicians, hospitals and other health care providers. The A-Claim system enables health care providers to simply and securely verify insurance eligibility, adjudicate claims, and accept credit, debit or prepaid cards for payment at the time of service, or at a later date once the amount of the patient's responsibility has been determined by his insurer. READ MORE »

The MobileStore, India’s largest telecom retailer, has announced it has partnered with PayMate to offer Point of Sale solutions (E-POS) across its 1,300 stores in over 200 cities that will allow customers to pay for their purchases, recharge talk-time and even buy or send gift vouchers instantly and securely via mobile. READ MORE »

ClairMail has announced that the banks using its ClairMail System are experiencing "tremendous adoption and usage, with some banks getting well over 90% of mobile banking consumers signing up for and receiving bank-defined and user-defined 2-way alerts." READ MORE »

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