On the web:

• Chargeback - New Free Service Aims To Easily Cancel Disputed Consumer Transactions - Springwise
• As Mobile-Payment Giants Bicker, Startups Step Up - ReadWrite Mobile

On the wires:

• U.S. Bank Partners with Mitek for Mobile Photo Bill Pay
• peerTransfer Rolls Out International Payment Solution to the K – 12 Education Market
• Kount’s Artificial Intelligence Technology Combats Card-Not-Present Fraud
• LevelUp and First Trade Union Bank Develop Custom Mobile Payment and Loyalty App
• USA Technologies and The Pepsi Companies Celebrate 100% Cashless Achievement

On the web:

• McDonald's to Trial Cloud-based Mobile Payments in UK - Managed Hosting News
• PlaySpan Combines Subscriptions and Microtransactions into UltimatePay - Digital Media Wire

On the wires:

• Western Union Reaches 500,000 Agent Location Milestone
• Government E-Payments Adoption Improves Globally According to Economist Intelligence Unit
• YuuZoo Signs with Virtual Piggy to Provide Secure Online Payments for Under 18 Users
• TSYS Extends Payments Agreement With The Royal Bank of Scotland
• MoneyGram Now Available at All 10,000 Plus Mainland Bank of China Locations
• Wright Express Chooses ReD to Deliver Payment Fraud Protection
• Kount Fraud Insights: The Fraud Impact of Surging Mobile Payments
• PayPal APIs: Up and Running, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly & Associates)
• epay Extends PIN-on-Receipt Business to Xbox LIVE

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 »