Visa and JPMorgan Chase have announced that the companies have agreed to a letter of intent for a new and expanded 10-year renewable partnership agreement to better serve both Chase cardholders and merchants.

“We are pleased to extend our long-term partnership with Visa,” said Gordon Smith, CEO of Consumer & Community Banking, JPMorgan Chase. “Chase Merchant Services enables us to build direct relationships with merchants and give enhanced benefits, such as targeted offers and discounts to Chase Visa cardholders.”

Chase Merchant Services combines the capabilities of JPMorgan Chase’s acquiring business, support functions and extensive card portfolio with a customized processing solution that Visa and JPMorgan Chase will create using Visa’s network, VisaNet.

JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the third quarter 2012. Highlights for Card Services include:

• Net income was $954 million, an increase of $105 million, or 12%, compared with the prior year. The increase was driven by lower noninterest expense and lower provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower net revenue.

• Net revenue was $4.7 billion, a decrease of $52 million, or 1%, from the prior year. Net interest income was $3.4 billion, down $78 million, or 2%, from the prior year.

• Credit Card sales volume (excluding commercial cards) was $96.6 billion, up 11% compared with the prior year and 1% compared with the prior quarter; Card Services general purpose credit card sales volume growth has outperformed the industry since the first quarter of 2008

Merchant processing volume was $163.6 billion, up 18% from the prior year and 2% from the prior quarter; total transactions processed were 7.4 billion, up 21% from the prior year and 4% from the prior quarter.

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JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the second quarter 2012. Highlights for Card Services include:

• Net income of $1.0 billion, a decrease of $80 million, or 7%, compared with the prior year. The decrease was driven by a lower reduction in the allowance for loan losses compared with the prior year.

• Card Services net revenue as a percentage of average loans was 11.91%, compared with 12.60% in the prior year and 12.22% in the prior quarter.

• Credit Card sales volume (excluding commercial cards) was $96.0 billion, up 12% compared with the prior year and 10% compared with the prior quarter; Card Services general purpose credit card sales volume growth has outperformed the industry since 1Q082.

Merchant processing volume was $160.2 billion, up 17% from the prior year and 5% from the prior quarter; total transactions processed were 7.1 billion, up 20% from the prior year and 4% from the prior quarter.

Chase Paymentech announced its new 'Future Proof' terminal that allows merchants to accept current and quickly emerging forms of customer payments all in one streamlined device –– EMV chip cards, phone-based mobile wallets, contactless, and magnetic stripe cards.

“As emerging payment options gain adoption in the U.S., merchants are looking to make the customer check-out process as easy and safe as possible,” said Mike Duffy, president of Chase Paymentech. “The Future Proof terminal is a one-stop solution for merchants to keep accepting today’s forms of payment and prepare for new consumer payment preferences on the horizon.”

JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the first quarter 2012. Highlights include:

• Net income was $1.2 billion, a decrease of $351 million, or 23%, compared with the prior year. The decrease reflected a higher provision for credit losses, driven by a lower reduction in the allowance for loan losses compared with the prior year.

• Card Services net revenue as a percentage of average loans was 12.22%, compared with 12.18% in the prior year and 12.26% in the prior quarter.

• Credit Card sales volume (excluding commercial cards) was $86.9 billion, up 12% compared with the prior year and down 7% compared with the prior quarter; excluding the impact of the Kohl’s portfolio sale, sales volume was up 15% compared with the prior year.

Merchant processing volume was $152.8 billion, up 22% from the prior year and flat compared with the prior quarter; total transactions processed were 6.8 billion, up 21% from the prior year and flat compared with the prior quarter.

JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2011.

• For its Card Services unit, Chase reported net income of $1.1 billion, a decrease of $497 million, or 32%, compared with the prior year. The decrease was driven by a $1.7 billion lower reduction in the allowance compared with the prior year, predominantly offset by lower net charge-offs.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, Card Services net revenue as a percentage of average loans was 11.64%, compared with 11.78% in the prior year and 11.68% in the prior quarter.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, Credit Card sales volume was $91.0 billion, up 9% compared with the prior year and 7% compared with the prior quarter; excluding also the impact of the Kohl's portfolio sale, sales volume was up 14% compared with prior year.

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JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the third quarter 2011.

• For its Card Services unit, Chase reported net income of $849 million, compared with $926 million in the prior year.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, Card Services net revenue as a percentage of average loans was 11.68%, compared with 11.33% in the prior year and 11.95% in the prior quarter.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, Credit Card sales volume2 was $84.8 billion, up 10% compared with the prior year and 2% compared with the prior quarter; excluding also the impact of the Kohl’s portfolio sale, sales volume was up 14% compared with prior year.

Chase Paymentech merchant processing volume was $138.1 billion, up 18% from the prior year and 1% from the prior quarter; 6.1 billion total transactions processed, up 17% from the prior year and 3% from the prior quarter.

JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the second quarter 2011.

• For its Card Services unit, Chase report net income of $911 million, compared with $343 million in the prior year. The improved results were driven by a lower provision for credit losses, partially offset by lower net revenue.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, the net charge-off rate was 5.28%, down from 9.02% in the prior year and 6.20% in the prior quarter; and the 30+ day delinquency rate was 2.73%, down from 4.48% in the prior year and 3.25% in the prior quarter.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual and Commercial Card portfolios, sales volume was $83.1 billion, up 10% compared with the prior year and 11% compared with the prior quarter

Chase Paymentech merchant processing volume was $137.3 billion, up 17%, on 5.9 billion transactions processed.

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Chase Paymentech has announced the launch of Safetech™ Fraud and Security Solutions, a new suite of services designed to protect online merchants from fraud and POS merchants from data breaches.

“Chase Paymentech is wise to bring together these much needed solutions to their merchants,” said Carol Coye Benson, managing partner at Glenbrook Partners. “We now live in a world where managing risks associated with payment fraud and data security is part of the daily routine for merchants everywhere. By closely integrating these tools with the payment processing work streams, the Safetech approach makes the process more efficient.”

JPMorgan Chase has reported financial results for the fourth quarter 2010.

• For its Card Services unit, Chase report net income of $1.3 billion, compared with a net loss of $306 million in the prior year.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual portfolio, the net charge-off rate was 7.08%, down from 8.64% in the prior year and 8.06% in the prior quarter; and the 30-day delinquency rate was 3.66%, down from 5.52% in the prior year and 4.13% in the prior quarter.
• Excluding the Washington Mutual portfolio, sales volume was $83.2 billion, an increase of $7.5 billion, or 10%.

Chase Paymentech Europe has announced results on an independent national merchant survey, finding that "79% financial directors thought that their CNP payment capability had developed in a less than ideal way; a figure which rose to 94% in large organizations. The research also found that 68% of merchants still relied on manual CNP payment processing, requiring staff to process and reconcile CNP data manually, placing a huge strain on finance departments." It's even worse for cross-border sales.

Chase Paymentech Europe has announced results from a national survey today exploring the challenges faced by UK firms in ‘Customer Not Present’ (CNP) payments. The survey conducted for Chase Paymentech by independent research company, Dynamic Markets, showed that 30 percent of the 200 businesses questioned had international growth plans within the next one-to-two years, but that most did not have the payment systems in place to properly support European customers. READ MORE »

VeriFone Holdings has announced that Chase Paymentech has been selected as the preferred provider of new merchant accounts for buyers of VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile iPhone card payment solution sold through Apple Retail Stores and the Apple Store online beginning April 6. READ MORE »

Chase Paymentech and Aria Systems have announced an agreement to "offer merchants a solution that combines Aria's SaaS based billing platform with the security, reliability, and broad currency support of Chase Paymentech." READ MORE »

Javelin has announced a new report titled "End-to-End Encryption, Tokenization, and EMV in the US: Vendor Analysis of Emerging Technologies and Best Hybrid Solutions" that "assesses the capabilities of end-to-end encryption, tokenization, virtual terminals, magnetic-stripe security and the EMV standard as solutions to combat payment-related data breaches." READ MORE »

Chase Paymentech has announced the final results of its Cyber Holiday Pulse Index that tracked daily online shopping activity throughout the 2009 holiday shopping season.

According to the company, "for 2009, the number of online shopping transactions soared 30 percent over 2008, while total sales volume increased 17.3 percent. The difference in these two numbers can be attributed to the decline in average ticket value, which dropped 9.8 percent." READ MORE »

Chase Paymentech has updated its Pulse Index to reflect results from November 5 through yesterday. During the holiday season, Chase Paymentech monitors the daily settlement activity of 50 of the largest 250 Internet retailers, as defined by the Internet Retailer Top 500, to create the Pulse Index.

If you scroll down on the page, you'll see the full timeframe - with the peak shopping days being each Tuesday for the three weeks prior to Chrismas. From a sales standpoint, 2009 was slightly ahead of 2008 while transactions grew significantly. A lower average ticket in 2009 pulled down the sales comparison to last year.

In a post titled "It's the Online Holiday Season!" over on our sister blog PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook's Russ Jones takes a look at some of the statistics regarding online eCommerce sales this holiday season.

Russ notes that "we’re wondering if this season might represent a significant inflection point in the shift towards online retail?"

The Chase Paymentech Cyber Holiday Pulse Index reports that, for the first five shopping days following Thanksgiving, online transactions were up 32 percent, and sales were up 24 percent. At the same time, the decline in the average customer’s ticket value was cut in half, from approximately 12 percent to 6 percent. According to Paymentech, "this result is unexpected when considering that this five-day stretch included aggressive Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions." READ MORE »

Chase Paymentech has launched an updated version of its Cyber Holiday Pulse Index to track online shopping activity throughout the 2009 holiday shopping season. Chase Paymentech says its Pulse Index this year will track over one million payment transactions made daily at 50 of the top U.S. retail Web sites as ranked by Internet Retailer magazine. READ MORE »

Chase Paymentech has announced a joint initiative with VeriFone and Semtek to provide end-to-end encryption technologies for merchants to combat threats to security. The companies said they "will work together to market and distribute VeriFone’s VeriShield Protect solution to the Chase Paymentech base of retail merchants. The end-to-end encryption solution is designed to help merchants reduce the costs to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements and associated security risk by protecting card information from the point of swipe to the Chase Paymentech authorization host." READ MORE »

JP Morgan Chase has reported financial results for the third quarter of 2009 - reporting net income of $3.6 billion, compared with net income of $527 million in the third quarter of 2008.

Chase Card Services reported a net loss of $700 million, a decline of $992 million from the third quarter of 2008. End-of-period managed loans were $165.2 billion, a decrease of $21.3 billion, or 11%, from the prior year and $6.3 billion, or 4%, from the prior quarter. Card charge volume was $82.6 billion, a decrease of $11.3 billion, or 12%, from the prior year. Merchant processing volume at Chase Paymentech was $103.5 billion, on 4.5 billion total transactions processed.

Chase Paymentech and Revolution Money, operator of the RevolutionCard payment network, have announced that Chase Paymentech's processing platforms now enable the acceptance of RevolutionCard transactions for online and retail merchants. Revolution Money says it "currently operates the largest PIN-based acceptance network for credit card purchase transactions in the U.S." READ MORE »

Web.com has announced an agreement with Chase Paymentech to offer merchant payment processing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses Web.com customers will have access to multiple secure payment processing services including all major credit, debit and customizable gift cards. READ MORE »

Verifi, a provider of transaction risk management services for card-not-present merchants, has announced that the company has signed a preferred partner agreement with Chase Paymentech. "Verifi will recommend Chase Paymentech as a preferred merchant account provider to its merchant customers, and will provide its transaction risk management services, including chargeback prevention and management, to Chase Paymentech’s card-not-present merchants." READ MORE »

With holiday shipping deadlines now history for most e-commerce retailers, the Chase Paymentech Cyber Holiday Pulse Index continues to show an increase from last year. The Index, an annual measurement of online shopping activity during the holiday season, tracks e-commerce spending activity across a sample of 25 of the leading online merchants as listed by Internet Retailer. The measurement indicates both sales volume and transaction count for online purchases crossing Chase Paymentech’s global processing platforms. READ MORE »