Fiserv has announced that its ACCEL/Exchange debit payments network "brought nearly 250 financial institutions to the global PIN debit ATM and debit network in the first half of 2011, bringing total membership up to more than 2,900 financial institutions. Concurrent with the addition of these new members, Fiserv has seen transaction volume in the network increase as well. Transactions at both ATMs and point of sale (POS) are up 31 percent for the first six months of 2011."

Are you planning to attend the Airline Travel and Payments Summit (ATPS) in Toronto this week? Glenbrook's Jacqueline Chilton will be on hand to speak on Wednesday, October 12 on "Social Media's Impact on Payments". If you're attending, be sure to drop Jacqueline a line. She'd love to chat about payments.

First Data has announced that The Bankers Bank, of Oklahoma City, has selected the STAR Network to provide electronic funds transfer (EFT) network services to its customers. Owned by nearly 100 community banks, The Bankers Bank serves correspondents in Oklahoma, Texas, and throughout the Midwest.

Co-op Services Credit Union has announced that it is challenging people to shred their bank debit cards in protest of new debit card usage fees.

Co-op Services' "Shred My Card" program gives people the opportunity to take their bank debit card to any Co-op Services location, open a new free checking account with direct deposit, e-statements and a debit card then shred their old bank debit card, to receive $105.

Details of the credit union's challenge are available at www.ShredMyCard.com.

On the web:

• Facebook Caves To Apple On Mobile Payments on iOS - BusinessInsider
• Square Processing $2B In Payments Per Year, Has Signed Up 800K Merchants - TechCrunch
• eBay to Unveil Commerce Identity at X.Commerce Innovate DevCon - AuctionBytes
• Create Card-Free Rewards Programs with Apps - Entrepreneur.com
• ZipPay To Launch New Mobile Payments Service Cheaper Than Square - TechCrunch
• MasterCard To Equip Subway Restaurants For Mobile Payments - WSJ.com

On the wires:

• Merchant Warehouse Announces Best Practices for Small Businesses Affected by Recent Revisions to Interchange Fee
• VirtualPiggy Now Available to Merchants on eBay’s Magento Platform
• First Open Source In-app Payment Library for Android OS by SmsCoin Project