Archive for July, 2009
Panini
Panini, a Turin, Italy-based technology company, offers check capture solutions that give customers the opportunity to realize the advantages available with the digital transformation of paper checks. The company’s latest offering, Panini I:Deal™, has just been certified by Metavante Corporation, a leading provider of payments and banking technology. The combination of Metavante’s Direct Merchant solution [...]
iBill
A few years back the original iBill was a leading third-party processor; but after losing its merchant account the company struggled. The name iBill has re-emerged into the payment industry, although executive VP, Jonas C. Brown is quick to assure, “None of the management or executive team with the original company have anything to do [...]
Verifi Inc
Verifi Inc. is a PCI Level1 compliant transaction processor, certified to process transactions for nearly all American payment processors. The company is on continuous quest to provide innovative solutions and services to their clients, and in keeping with that goal have recently announced a new addition to the company.
Joe Little will be Vice President of [...]
MerchantWARE® TransPort™
MerchantWARE® TransPort™ is an innovative new application from Merchant Warehouse, allowing point-of-sale developers to eliminate card processing from their software, yet still allowing the developer to offer full functionality via a transaction portal. This will assist in the arduous PA-DSS compliance process, as TransPort assumes all of the duties of sensitive payment data handling.
After a [...]
BluePay Acquires Landmark Merchant Solutions
Illinois based BluePay, a full service merchant account and credit card processing provider, has recently acquired Landmark Merchant Solutions, LLC. BluePay’s CEO, John Rante, said of the acquisition, They have an experienced sales force, and we’re excited to integrate our suite of integrated payment solutions to their already successful sales model.”
The purchase of Landmark is [...]
Wireless ePay Credit Card Processing
Merchants who want to get away from wires, if only for a short time, will be thrilled with the new option available from Blackberry’s App World. The Wireless ePay Credit Card Processing application gives retail merchants the ability to accept credit card payments via an existing mobile device, regardless of who their cellular service provider [...]
Authorize.net Goes Down
Authorize.net, one of the largest ecommerce payment gateway service providers, suffered a serious outage a few days ago and merchants are still talking about it. Tens of thousands of internet businesses use Authorize.net to accept payments on their websites, whether electronic checks or credit cards.
Several sources have reported that the source of the outage can [...]
Protect Yourself from Credit Card Fraud
Dozens of small business owners throughout the US are struggling with a tricky problem. Cyber criminals have found a way to hack sites that allow them to take advantage of weaknesses in the authentication processing system that merchants use to place “pre-authorization requests,” a method of placing a temporary charge on a cardholder’s account to [...]
InterBill Ltd
The U.S. District Court has issued an order stopping payment processor, InterBill Ltd. and owner, Thomas Wells, from engaging in the unfair practices as alleged in a complaint by the FTC. The company and Mr. Wells will be required to undertake a reasonable investigation of prospective clients before processing payments for them. The court order [...]
Caledon Card Services
Caledon Card Services is a merchant services and online credit card gateway processing company with over 50,000 North American accounts. Already Caledon provide services to clients as large as airlines and as small as simple non-profit associations and now Caledon is announcing three new Hypercom POS terminals as solutions to their merchants.
Caledon’s customers are able [...]