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Payment Processing News

5/18/09 - New Fees for Card Usage Overseas - to Card Users

1/29/09 - Heartland Sniffer Hid on a portion of the disk that was unused. More Here...

1/16/09 - Google Checkout will begin charging standard transaction fees to Non-Profits

1/6/09 - Credit Card Issuers launch programs to help customer pay down balance

1/1/09 - Amazon.com drops the Bill Me Later payment service

12/8/08 - Grocery Store Coupon Usage Spikes to Record High

12/2/08 - Manual Credit Card Imprinters May Become Obsolete

10/9/08 - Contact 2 - Credit Card (A Fox 2 story on restaurant credit card fraud and a terminal that sets to combat it)

6/03/08 - Important information on Visa/MC PCI Compliance for Internet Merchants and Merchants that Store Card Data

1/17/08 - Symantec Warns on New Banking Trojan Threat

10/22/07 - Retailers Want Banks to Store Card Data

9/29/07 - Money Laundering Scheme Uses ATMs to Transfer Drug Cash

9/15/07 - MerchantSeek.com Launches the SOVAI Payment Service.  A Service that Enables the Use of an Existing Online Merchant Account in a Mobile Environment.

09/07/07 - Amazon.com to offer Payment Service to compete with Google and Paypal

08/29/07 - Boomers Say Cash Is Dying

2/21/04 - IMPORTANT:  MasterCard/Visa rate increases - Learn about it now!

4/28/02 - Pico-Pay Launches Micropayments Gateway Service

2/19/02 - New Service Reduces Chargebacks/Fraud by 80%

2/14/02 - Cardholder Security Statement Required

2/14/02 - MasterCard "Sinage" Requirements

12/6/01 - Contact Centers Save Money With Real-Time Credit Card Authorization

11/26/01 - Merchant Concern About Online Credit Card Fraud Rise Significantly

11/15/01 - Cell Phone Payment Processing with Swipe Terminal