American Express Announces New Travel Management Technology

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American Express  announced new technology capabilities to help make travel easier for today’s well-connected corporate traveler while also encouraging alignment with a company’s strategic travel and expense program. The capabilities announced today include a new platform that leverages social gaming mechanics to reward policy-adherent traveler behaviors; an integration with TripCase; a new capability that updates

Heartland Payment Systems Reports Record Quarterly Earnings

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Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. one of America’s largest payment processors and leading provider of merchant business solutions,  has announced Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings per Share of $23.1 million and $0.62, respectively, for the quarter ended June 30, 2013, compared to Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted Earnings per Share of $20.5 million and $0.51, respectively,

Wincor Nixdorf expands ProCash Family with a Weatherised ATM

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Wincor Nixdorf, one of the world’s leading suppliers of IT solutions for banks and retail companies, has expanded its range of robust, compact ATMs in the ProCash family with a new weatherized system. ProCash 285’s simple and intuitive design allows for easy cash withdrawals. The system can also be easily adapted to meet diverse, fast-changing

ACI Worldwide Achieves 2013 Swift Certified Application Accreditations

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ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of payment systems, announced that SWIFT has awarded the 2013 SWIFT Certified Application Payments label to ACI Money Transfer System™ for the sixteenth consecutive year. The SWIFT accreditation for payments recognizes that Money Transfer System supports SWIFT’s highest requirements for the processing of payments. ACI has also integrated the

Bank of Ningbo Goes Live with Multi-vendor ATM Software Platform from NCR

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Bank of Ningbo has successfully gone live with a multi-vendor open ATM software platform from NCR Corporation. The bank’s fleet of more than 500 ATMs are running on NCR APTRATM Edge, a multi-vendor software application, and the network has been migrated to be compliant with EMV1 (PBOC 2.02) card payment standards. NCR has installed its

MasterCard and The Leading Hotels of the World to Offer Cardholders Special Benefits

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MasterCard and The Leading Hotels of the World announced an agreement to provide MasterCard cardholders offers at participating hotels globally. As the largest luxury hotel collection, with more than 430 of the world’s greatest properties in over 80 countries, Leading Hotels is uniquely aligned with MasterCard’s Priceless Cities program to offer memorable travel experiences. All

Anywhere/Anytime Access to Online Banking Solutions

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ABI Research forecasts that cumulative online ID and authentication shipments into the banking market vertical will total 1.6 billion in 2018; an increase of 945% when compared to 2012. Cumulative shipments include secure USB tokens, standalone OTP generators, portable smart card readers, and mobile device software applications. Of the 2018 shipment total ABI Research forecasts

Visa and MasterCard Support Common Solutions to Enable U.S. Chip Debit Routing

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MasterCard and Visa Inc.  announced an agreement to license their respective common U.S. debit solutions to each other to meet the industry need for a streamlined approach to route U.S. chip debit transactions over multiple, unaffiliated networks. Visa and MasterCard have made certain proprietary EMV chip technologies available to each other and other networks, enabling

ATMIA pays tribute to ethical hacker Barnaby Jack

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The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA), the only global non-profit association for the ATM industry, today paid tribute to the work of hacker Barnaby Jack, who died unexpectedly in San Francisco last week. “Many of us in the ATM industry are saddened to hear of the passing of Barnaby Jack at a relatively young age,” commented

PayPal Unveils the Modern Spice Routes

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With the global economy still struggling, businesses and exporters can help increase their revenue by waking up to cross-border sales opportunities as revealed by new PayPal and Nielsen data released today. The report titled ‘Modern Spice Routes: The Cultural Impact of Cross-Border Shopping’analyzes cross-border online shopping and spending behavior in six major markets — the United