Today, the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), the trade association representing America’s responsible, small denomination, short-term payday lenders, questioned the activities of certain large Wall Street financial institutions for promoting their own interests over those of hard-working, middle income consumers. “Unlike those who are responsisble for the collapse... Read This »

INTUIT ONLINE PAYROLL GIVES SMALL BUSINESSES THE TOOLS TO EFFICIENTLY MANAGE PAYROLL VIA GOOGLE APPSFirst Online Payroll Solution to be Offered in Google Apps MarketplaceSmall business owners now have a new way to easily and efficiently manage payroll and other key business tasks within one integrated online office environment.Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:... Read This »

Hypercom Corporation (NYSE:HYC) today announced an expanded portfolio of high security payment and digital transaction solutions validated in compliance with the EMV POS specification of Germany’s Central Credit Committee, the Zentraler Kreditausschuss (ZKA). With ZKA approval of the already-approved Artema Hybrid, now configured with cardholder-facing S10 PIN Pad, Hypercom strengthens... Read This »

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), a FIFA partner and the preferred card of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, today announced an extension of its first-ever global FIFA-themed marketing campaign – Go Fans. The global campaign, which originally debuted in Latin America in 2009, includes television, print and out-of-home advertisements, usage promotions,... Read This »

nFinanSe Inc. (OTCBB:NFSE), a leading reloadable prepaid card provider, today announced that it is significantly reducing its fees to cardholders for ATM withdrawals and also for electronic bill pay transactions. The Company believes that these reductions will encourage greater trial and usage of its Visa® and Discover® Reloadable Prepaid Cards... Read This »

MoneyGram International (NYSE:MGI), a leading global payment services company, and SUPERVALU INC. (NYSE:SVU), a leading U.S. grocery retailer, announced today the renewal of a multi-year agreement to extend their alliance to offer MoneyGram money transfer services at more than 1,000 corporate-owned grocery outlets in 28 states. “MoneyGram is excited to... Read This »

University Parent Media™ and StorValue Card Solutions™ are addressing the latest issue on campuses across America: What will students do without a credit card? The Credit CARD Act, making it more difficult for students under 21 to be issued a credit card, went into effect on February 22, 2010, creating... Read This »

StorValue™ Card Solutions will soon launch its fifth branded card program, Campus Dough DebitSmart™ Visa® Prepaid Card, filling a void left by the recent Credit CARD Act, which makes it more difficult for students to get credit cards. StorValue teamed with University Parent Media to offer the innovative, reward-filled Campus... Read This »

The NFC Forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced 19 new members from 14 countries. The organization made the announcement during its week-long all members meeting taking place in Shanghai. Since its founding in 2004, the NFC Forum has... Read This »

Recall North America, a global leader in information management, announced the results of a study commissioned by Recall North America and conducted by Harris Interactive. The survey asked 2,194 adults their views on identity theft, a serious issue that costs consumers and businesses millions of dollars annually, and can irretrievably... Read This »

Martin Eagle Oil Company, Inc., a multi-branded marketer of motor fuel products, has selected Heartland Payment Systems’® (NYSE: HPY) new SmartLink® technology to create a consolidated managed network for payment transaction data and back-office information. SmartLink will initially be implemented at 11 Martin Eagle locations with the remaining locations to... Read This »

Monitise Americas today announced that managing director, Soren Bested, will speak at the educational conference program during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010®, taking place March 22-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Soren will participate on the “International” panel during the Special Interest Seminar titled Money over Mobile and will discuss... Read This »

Citi announced today that it will expand its support of shopkick, Inc.'s successful CauseWorld application by providing an additional $350,000 in financial support for CauseWorld causes. Citi's total contribution now stands at $700,000. About half has already been given to the causes by Citi on behalf of CauseWorld shoppers. Citi... Read This »

Peninsula Gaming, LLC (the "Company") today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. The Company is the parent of (i) Diamond Jo, LLC ("DJL"), which owns and operates the Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque, Iowa, (ii) Diamond Jo Worth, LLC ("DJW"), which owns... Read This »