On the web:

• Groupon Acquires POS Start Breadcrumb to Connect with Local Restaurants - VentureBeat
• PayPal InStore App: Use your PayPal Account on the High Street (UK) - Shiny Shiny
• Banks Tacking Fees On To Campus Debit Cards (video) - MSNBC.com

On the wires:

• Discover and Ducks Unlimited Announce New Affinity Card
• i2c and KargoCard Announce Partnership to Power Prepaid, Mobile Payments and Loyalty Solutions in China
• Risk Office from Fiserv: Helping Clients Reduce Dollar Fraud Losses by an Average of 40%
• Acculynk and National Payments Corporation of India Announce Internet PIN Debit Partnership
• WorldPay Launches Advanced RFI and Chargeback Management Platform
• Planet Payment Acquires Branded Payment Solutions Ltd (Ireland)
• Cellum Introduces MasterCard Mobile Wallet (Hungary)

Planet Payment and China UnionPay have announced an agreement that allows Planet Payment's to provide processing support for China UnionPay's credit and debit cards in both card present and card-not-present environments directly to banks and acquirers on a worldwide basis.

"China UnionPay is one of the world's leading bankcard schemes," said Philip D. Beck, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Planet Payment. "With this new agreement, our acquirer or processor customers globally can accept UnionPay credit and PIN debit cards, enabling merchants to sell more goods and services to Chinese cardholders and tapping into one of the largest markets for potential new customers."

The Bancorp Bank and Planet Payment have announced an agreement to provide Planet Payment’s suite of products and services to Bancorp’s merchants and third party servicers in the U.S. payments market. As part of the business arrangement, Bancorp will utilize Planet Payment’s multi-currency processing platform to provide merchants with tools to increase their sales and operate their businesses more efficiently. READ MORE »