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The future of the New Jersey gift card law that would requireretailers to collect zip codes from gift card buyers...

I had the opportunity to attend a briefing onVisa' s partnership with the Rwandan government to establish abasic electronic payments...

The battleground for the mobile consumer'sconnection to the merchant has expanded. Line busting, mobileself-checkout company AisleBuyer has just been acquired...

Reinvestment Partners ignores the value ofprepaid debit cards and focuses instead exclusively on cost. Aswith other consumer groups, Adam Rust,...

A recent announcement from Sussex CountyFederal Credit Union in Delaware that it has deployed newintelligent deposit ATMs would not seem...

Traditionally, the acquisition of a prepaidprocessor is driven by the cost savings associated with verticalintegration. For example, Green Dot can...

On April 1, the network exclusivity rules ofRegulation II went into general effect and over the course of thenext few...

An interesting pattern has emerged in thethird party gift card distribution market. Issuers are seeinggreater sales in stores where gift...

The world has entered the information age,and there is no turning back. Mobile banking, social media, "thecloud," and personally identifiable...

A recent Forbes blog post, by contributor Jon Matonis,takes Square and PayPal to task as "not disruptive enough"innovations in the...