Wachovia buys Golden West

May 9, 2006

Bobsguide: Wachovia Corp., the United States' fourth-largest bank, is expected to buy California's Golden West Financial Corp. in a deal worth an estimated $2…

Level Four wins award for payments excellence

May 9, 2006

Bobsguide: Level Four, provider of open standards-based ATM testing and development software, won the silver EPCA/ECR award for its ATM TrueTest product, which…

NACHA approves rules for back-office check conversion

May 9, 2006

SAN DIEGO - NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association approved an amendment to its operating rules that allows retailers and billers to convert eligible checks…

Growth in Asia-Pacific's credit-card issuance, spending expected to continue

Datamonitor: Last month, HSBC announced it experienced double-digit growth in credit-card uptake and spending across Asia-Pacific in 2005. The bank issued 8.…

Common application spec may accelerate EMV migration

May 8, 2006

ePaynews: Global EMV-migration rates may accelerate with EMVCo's release of its common payment-application specification, which streamlines tests for card…

Microsoft preps new version of Windows CE

May 8, 2006

KiplingerForecasts: Microsoft Corp. developers have quietly been working on a new version of Windows CE, the operating system found in everything from sewing…

TMD Security intros new card-reader security

May 8, 2006

CURACAO, Netherlands Antilles - TMD Security announced in a news release the launch of its CPK+ Model 3, a new product that protects dip card-readers from…

Jack Henry names Mark Forbis VP, CTO

May 8, 2006

MONETT, Mo. - Jack Henry & Associates Inc., provider of integrated computer systems and ATM, debit card and ACH transaction processing, announced the…

Congress asked to step into interchange wars

May 8, 2006

WASHINGTON - Congress was asked last week to consider joining the ongoing interchange-fee battle between U.S. merchants and Visa and MasterCard.

Australian central bank to set card-fees cap

May 8, 2006

Datamonitor: The Australian banking regulator is expected to impose a cap on interchange fees that it is estimated to cost the local payment-card industry $17…

ATM news: Congress asked to step into interchange wars

May 8, 2006

E-payments expected to double by 2010

May 8, 2006

OMAHA, Neb. - A study commissioned by ACI Worldwide found that the annual number of electronic payment transactions, currently about 210 billion worldwide, is…

Who's who: Len Fowler

May 7, 2006

For one whose connection to the ATM industry has been fairly fleeting, Len Fowler's impact has been surprisingly lasting. His company, T-Base Communications…

The channel shuffle

As the popularity of prepaid products and services grows, deployers of a number of different devices -- including ATMs, kiosks and point-of-sale terminals -…

ATM/kiosk helps customers pay bills with 'Ease'

May 7, 2006

After installing a dozen bill payment kiosks in Chicago, an Illinois company called Pay-Ease wants to take its service nationwide by recruiting distributors…

ATM news: Mickey Brown, through Katrina and back

May 7, 2006

Remitco to use Wausau enterprise-remittance platform

May 7, 2006

MOSINEE, Wis. - First Data Corp.'s Remitco unit, the nation's largest processors of retail-lockbox payments, has signed a deal with Wausau Financial Systems to…

CDS now supports Triton ATM online journal

May 7, 2006

DALLAS - Columbus Data Services announced in a news release that it now supports Triton's online ATM journal. According to a news release, the journal captures…

Credit Union 24 eliminates membership minimums

May 7, 2006

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Credit Union 24 announced in a news release it has eliminated membership-fee minimums for its member-shareholders. The decision by the EFT…

B of A chief dissatisfied with bank's Visa focus

May 7, 2006

Datamonitor: Bank of America chief executive Ken Lewis said he's unhappy that his bank in the past concentrated on promoting the Visa brand instead of its own.