On the wires:

• Survey Says Asian Consumers Seek Better Tools to Manage Payment Card Spending
• WorldPay Partners with CellPoint to offer mPoint® Mobile Payments
• Green Dot Launches Government Division
• JetPay Now Offers PaySecure Internet PIN Debit
• Prosper.com Reports Record P2P Lending Growth in the First Quarter of 2011
• Oberthur Technologies Announces Availability of its First MasterCard® M/Chip Advance Product
• NetSpend Selects Actiance's Socialite SaaS Platform to Ensure Compliance and Security of Social Media Channels

On the web:

• Wall Street Journal: Jamie Dimon Has Annoyed Sen. Durbin
• TechCrunch: Processing $500 Million A Year, Payoneer Launches Local Money Transfers
• New York Times: Choosing the Best Credit Card for Travel

Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Oberthur Technologies, and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and INSIDE Contactless have announced the launch of an industry initiative to provide "a new security solution for next-generation smart card based public transport applications. The solution will build on an open standard now being implemented by the four partner companies, which will eventually be governed by an independent body. Companies active in the smart card arena - providers of chips, smart cards, application-specific operating software, reader devices and transportation systems - are invited to join the initiative for the advancement of more secure public transportation applications." READ MORE »

Oberthur Technologies has announced Smart Lumiere, a light-emitting contactless card that emits light when it is entered in the field of a contactless reader to inform the cardholder when a transaction is taking place. READ MORE »