ProPay (www.propay.com) announced that it was ranked among the 2010 Inc. 5000 List of Fast-Growth companies for the second year in a row. ProPay provides businesses of all size with secure tools to accept credit and debit cards through PCI DSS compliant merchant solutions. ProPay says that its main advantages are these:

Clear2Pay, an international provider of payment solutions, has partnered with Edenred, previously known as Accor Services, to launch the first card-based luncheon voucher on the Belgian market.

As Clear2Pay announced Monday, it has achieved full SwiftReady accreditation for its Open Payment Framework and the payment solutions derived off it and thus has successfully demonstrated full compliance with the SwiftReady Payments 2010 Label criteria.

Webmasters across the globe along with other users are expressing their woes on the Internet over the recent ban imposed by Visa on ePassporte debit cards. For a significant period of time users of the popular ecurrency system have withdrawn their funds to the Visa branded ePassporte debit card and after that they could use it at locations with Visa logo and withdraw cash at corresponding ATMs.

In late October the online payments giant PayPal is launching a new pack of developing tools to streamline payment process for social gamers while also attracting new gamers who experience problems when topping up their virtual currency accounts.

The last settlement related to the data breach has been achieved by Heartland Payment Systems. The payment processor has agreed to pay up to $5 million to Discover Financial Services in relation to a massive data compromise that hit the company in 2008. Last January the payment processing firm revealed that malicious software in its processing system had been found, potentially compromising the card data of millions of people.

PayPal is delighted to announce, it’s working with Green Dot, MoneyPak provider, on a special promotion that is set to kick off today. The certain promotion runs this year from September 1st through November 14th and will give $10 to all PayPal customers who try MoneyPak for the first time, as well as the chance to win $1,000 every day in a daily drawing.

According to the latest reports an online auction giant eBay will no longer support Google Checkout payment system starting next July. Users won’t be allowed to use any checkout service except eBay’s own payment processor PayPal. Explaining the move the company says it wants “to give eBay buyers a consistent, speedy checkout experience and to ensure support for fast-growing sales via mobile platforms...,” Todd Lutwak, eBay’s vice president of the seller experience, wrote in a little-noticed blog post last week.

First Data Corp announced that now its First Data® TransArmorSM solution is publicly available. Now merchant of all sizes can avail of the service via First Data’s network of resale partners. First Data anticipates that more than 100,000 merchants will be securely processing transactions with the TransArmor solution by the end of the year.

More and more users of the payment system perfect money are discussing the changes introduced by the company which are for some reason not made public by the management of the payment processor itself. Customers of Perfect Money noticed, in particular, that they have some new options inside their accounts which are: - Credit status - Trust score The Credit status option can be seen soon after you log into your account on your main page. At the moment, as many users report, they see “Normal, no overdue loans” note in the Credit status field.

liberty reserve has recently introduced an anti-money laundering policy which was accepted by some users as a potential threat to their funds and subsequent devaluation of the services offered by the payment processor and as a result liquidity diminution.   The new policy says:   LIBERTY RESERVE S.A. views Money Laundering as a serious criminal offence, and as such, complies with regulatory requirements intended to forestall and prevent money laundering.

Socialwise Inc, the parent company of the online payment system BillMyParents®, entered into a partnership agreement with the Street League Skateboarding DC Pro Tour as the official currency sponsor for its three inaugural events being held in Glendale, AZ, Ontario, CA, and Las Vegas, NV, in August and September.

A global provider of financial services Fiserv announced its Revenue Expansion program specifically developed to help banks and credit unions impacted by Regulation E. as is known on November 12, 2009, the US Federal Reserve Board published a final rule under Regulation E that prohibits financial institutions from charging overdraft fees for ATM or one-time debit card transactions, unless a consumer opts-in to the overdraft service.

As reported  www.casinotimes.co.uk, several online bingo sites are considering an option to reintroduce PayPal as a payment method for customers. Thus far one of the most popular methods of making online payments is to re

eBillme,  the most secure way to pay online with cash using online banking and walk-in locations, has named the biggest online cash spender. Thus far, Marsha Tracy, online shopper from Glendale, California, was named the winner of the Hey Big Spender contest.