A couple of new posts from your friends at Glenbrook over on PaymentsViews.com:

• The Problem with B2B Payments - Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson laments the slow progress in B2B payments - and her view of some of the myths and realities about why movement is slow.
  
  In particular, she asks "Why can’t you just look up ACME Widget Co. and find out what kind of electronic payments ACME supports, and how to pay them electronically?"
  
  
• What Does Payments as a Service (PaaS) Mean to You? - Recently a number of ecommerce merchants and traditional companies have asked us, “Can I just outsource ALL of my payment processing? I’ve had it!”
  
  Glenbrook's Erin McCune explores the issue - and asks If you were to buy Payments as a Service - which processes, services, and/or functions would be included in your dream solution?

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The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) has released a report titled "Credit Cards and Small Business: Benefits, Opportunities and Policy Debate" that looks at the importance of credit cards to the small business community, and explains the "ill effects of increased government regulation on the industry." READ MORE »

paysafecard group has announced the launch of Cash-Ticket, enabling payments for consumers of all ages as it requires no bank details or personal information and allows businesses to serve consumers who were previously unable, or simply didn’t want to make purchases online. READ MORE »

Fiserv has announced a new outsourcing service to help large and mid-tier financial institutions reduce Automated Clearing House (ACH) processing costs and gain quicker time to market with new ACH services and NACHA Rule updates. According to the company, "ACH Outsourcing from Fiserv will enable financial institutions to move from a variable cost structure of in-house processing to a more predictable, volume-based cost model, built with the NACHA Rule updates included. The move to outsourcing could help banks gain immediate operational and IT cost savings, such as the elimination of ACH mainframe expense, software maintenance and upgrade costs." READ MORE »

In remarks given to a press conference yesterday, Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, noted that with MasterCard's changes to its interchange fees in Europe, "the aim of the new MIFs to be applied by MasterCard is that a merchant's costs in accepting card payments should be no higher than the benefits from avoiding receiving cash." Yesterday, MasterCard announced new interchange fees for cross-border transactions on consumer credit card transactions at 0.3% and at 0.2% for its consumer debit card transactions.

Ukash has announced an agreement with UATP which will make it possible for consumers to pay for flights over the Internet using cash, it was announced at the annual Airline Distribution conference today. READ MORE »

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