3M develops transparent ATM cards

May 20, 2007

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal: 3M Co. has developed a new material for use in what is being touted as the first transparent ATM cards.  Maplewood…

N.Y. envelope maker releases RFID guard for smart cards

May 20, 2007

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Envelope manufacturer National Envelope Corp. has developed and is now marketing Smart Card GuardT, a new line of products that shield smart…

Alliance Data expected to sell for $6.76 billion

May 17, 2007

Reuters: The Blackstone Group has announced plans to buy Dallas-based Alliance Data Systems Corp., a business-services company that provides transaction…

Visa's new CEO preps for IPO

May 16, 2007

Joseph SaundersThe (San Jose, Calif.) Mercury News: Visa International's new chief executive officer, Joseph Saunders, says he's ready to take Visa to…

United Commercial Bank joins Pulse ATM network, accesses China UnionPay

May 14, 2007

HOUSTON - United Commercial Bank ($10 billion in assets), a U.S. bank that serves the Chinese-American community and American companies doing business in…

Middle East authorities bust gangs for fake cards

May 14, 2007

The (Qatar) Peninsula: Law-enforcement agencies in Qatar have busted two organized gangs for fake credit cards. The two gangs included members from Malaysia…

Self Service Expo awards

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

Two solutions designed by Source Technologies took home first-place honors.

ZKA, EUFISERV sign deal for wider card acceptance in Europe

May 10, 2007

BERLIN - ZKA and EUFISERV have signed a deal that allows EUFISERV members to provide ATM withdrawals to German debit cardholders and ZKA members to provide…

Pa. men arrested for ATM-card scam

May 9, 2007

WFMJ-TV (Pittsburgh): Two Romanian nationals in have been accused of using bogus ATM cards Pennsylvania to glean account information from bank customers.

Mitigating Risk: How to Reduce Authorization Fraud

May 9, 2007

Cyber criminals use testing tools to broaden their scams and increase their scamming ROI.

Getronics Hungary uses Postilion for ATM, POS processing

May 9, 2007

LONDON - Postilion, a division of S1 Corp. and provider of open-payment-application systems for financial and retail organizations, is offering an outsourced…

Fla. FI signs with Fifth Third Processing Solutions

May 9, 2007

CINCINNATI - Merchants & Southern Bank in Gainesville, Fla., has signed a contract with Fifth Third Processing Solutions for electronic-fund-transfer…

TIO launches prepaid MasterCard

May 2, 2007

BURNABY, B.C. - TIO Networks Corp. and ExxonMobil, along with and NetSpend Corporation announced the launch of the TIO prepaid MasterCard at participating…

BancorpSouth selects PULSE as PIN network provider

May 1, 2007

HOUSTON - BancorpSouth and Pulse EFT Association have strengthened and expanded their affiliation through an exclusive, long-term agreement. As sole PIN debit…

Congress eyes action on credit cards

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

April 29, 2007

About the author: Ed Roberts is a seasoned financial industry reporter and contributor to ATM Marketplace. To submit a comment about this article, contact…

Alaric signs as partner for financial crimes, fraud event

April 22, 2007

LONDON - Alaric Systems Ltd., supplier of fraud-detection solutions for the card-payments industry, will be a business-development partner at Malaysia's…

ATM Direct targets merchants

April 17, 2007

Digital Transactions: A processor that allows consumers to pay online with their PIN-based debit cards says it expects to sign 18 merchants for its service by…

Paragon supports EMV migration in Canada

April 16, 2007

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. - Paragon Application Systems announced the general availability of FASTest for Interac Shared Services, a comprehensive unit and…

ATM deployers encouraged to help underserved

April 16, 2007

BROOKINGS, S.D. - The ATM Industry Association and the World Bank's CGAP division are inviting ATM deployers to submit applications for funding various…

Intrust Bank renews deal with NYCE

April 11, 2007

SECAUCUS, N.J. - NYCE Payments Network LLC has extended its contract with Midwest-based Intrust Bank.   According to a news release, the new extended deal…