peerTransfer has announced peerTransfer Education, "an online payment processing service that provides significant time and cost savings for US-based schools and their international students. peerTransfer enables these savings by collecting funds in students' home currency and offering wholesale foreign exchange rates, along with reduced transaction fees. The result is significant cost savings as compared to traditional banking solutions -- up to thousands of dollars for a single year's tuition."

Merchant e-Solutions (MeS) has announced the roll out of a suite of mobile payment apps on their new PayEverywhere platform.

Early adopters of PayEverywhere mobile products include Mark Larson, Owner of Marblesoft, LLC. "We use the PayEverywhere iPhone payment solution at trade shows to take orders on the floor. For ease and reliability, it surpasses any other system we've tried."

On the wires:

• Text2Pay Launches Mobile Payments Platform with Direct Billing
• Merchant360 Releases NFC Stack for Payment Terminals and VeriFone Acquires First License
• ACI Worldwide Joins U.K.'s Payments Council
• Sage Helps Alleviate the PCI Compliance Burden for Larger Nonprofits
• Three in Four Consumers Say Using Their Information For Fraud Detection Purposes is ‘Okay’

On the web:

• Computerworld: Isis says carrier-backed mobile payments 'accelerated,' not 'dialing back'
• Internet Retailer: DigiMo Pioneers First True Mobile Payment Solution