On the web:

• Hefty Profit Seen for Card Issuers - WSJ.com
• Kount Offers Free Device Fingerprinting to New Customers - Internet Retailer
• PayPal Partners With POS Software Company AJB To Scale In-Store Payments Option To Big Box Retailers - TechCrunch
• Intel at CES 2012: Future Ultrabooks to Sport NFC - Digital Trends

On the wires:

• TSYS Signs Payment Services Agreement with Pivotal Payments
• Tabbedout Launches Beta Offers Feature for Austin Consumers
• BluePay, a Provider of Merchant Processing Services, Offers New Plugin for QuickBooks Point of Sale

LexisNexis has announced the launch of its "new comprehensive fraud prevention solutions suite for protecting retailers from the risks associated with Card-Not-Present orders. For the first time, LexisNexis fully integrates its front-end identity fraud risk scoring with a workflow platform and fraud analyst review system, creating the ability to assess order risk at the transactional level, automate review processes and provide faster assessment for e-commerce retailers."

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.”

Verifi and Kount have announced a partnership to jointly deliver a "next-generation technology solution to equip merchants with a powerful set of risk mitigation and business management capabilities. The partnership integrates Kount’s Multi-Layer Device Fingerprinting™ and predictive scoring technology into Verifi's platform, expanding the breadth of the Device Intelligence™ component of Verifi's innovative Intelligence™ Suite. Merchants are able to identify, track and defeat fraudulent users by linking suspect orders in real time, across the shared database." READ MORE »

Kount Inc. has announced that it has received a US patent for its proxy piercing technology that "determines the accurate geolocation of computers being used to initiate online transactions, providing methods for determining the true physical location of the customer's computer, even if an anonymous proxy is being used." READ MORE »

Kount Inc. has announced that the company has received a US patent for its device fingerprinting technology. Kount officials say patent number 7,330,871 "Online Machine Data Collection and Archiving Process," describes a method for identifying a customer computer involved in an online transaction via a merchant website. READ MORE »