Debit card tools.
The debit card is the latest advance in the area of consumer-driven health care, says Victoria Nipple, chief operating officer of mbi, the originator of employee benefits debit cards. The debit card removes the need to submit claim forms by letting consumers directly deduct funds from health reimbursement accounts...

Electronic payment poised for growth. (Marketing News).
It's been a long time coming, but it appears that electronic payment is finally here. A nationwide survey by the American Bankers Association and Dove Consulting of Boston concludes that about half of all in-store purchases now are made with some form of cash-free payment: debit cards, credit cards,...

Chase Merchant Services, LLC. (Finance: advertisement).
Customers demand the flexibility to purchase goods and services at the point-of-sale as well as via telephone, mail order and the Internet using credit and debit cards. To provide the greatest flexibility to your customers as well as to increase your competitive edge, businesses seek to partner with a...

Integrated payment solutions for the new world of business.
Customers demand the flexibility to purchase goods and services at the point-of-sale as well as via telephone, mail order and the Internet using credit and debit cards. To provide the greatest flexibility to your customers as well as to increase your competitive edge, businesses seek to partner with a...

Buying hot lunch at the swipe of a card.
The move toward electronic transactions in the school cafeteria has led to faster-moving lunch lines, more parental oversight, reduced stigmas for low-income students, and fewer tears from kids who misplace their food money or lose it to bullies, the Arizona Republic reports. Cafeteria debit cards work just like the...

Banks ponder future of rewards for debit-card transactions.
Should debit-card issuers discontinue or scale back their rewards programs? Or, conversely, should they aggressively pursue fee-based debit rewards? These are the questions that financial services companies are asking themselves in the wake of the settlement earlier this year of the lawsuit filed by retailers such as...

MTV Debit Card to be launched today!
Equitable Card and MTV Philippines will jointly launch the MTV Debit Card, the hippest and most wanted card in town, at the Glorietta Activity Center today from 6:30 p.m. onwards. Expect the best in entertainment, MTV style, with popular band Mojofly who will rock the house with...

Check your credits with your debit card. (Marketing News).
Customers enrolled in Cleveland-based Charter One Financial's MegaRewards Debit MasterCard program can keep track of their points-and even redeem them- online. The more than 600,000 Charter One debit rewards customers can, by logging in at www.charterone.com. determine how many points they have accrued toward merchandise and travel benefits. ...

Credit card companies' settlement may impact telemarketing of renewal offers; changes made by MasterCard and Visa may also make it possible for marketers themselves to determine whether the card provided by the consumer is a debit or credit card.
Earlier this year, Visa and MasterCard settled a lawsuit with Wal-Mart and several other retailers relating to fees the companies charge to merchants to process debit and credit card transactions. Resulting changes may have a significant impact on the telemarketing of continuity programs, automatic renewals and other negative option...

No bank, no rank: people without a checking or savings account find it hard to get ahead in life. States and the federal government are stepping in to help.
Imagine that today is pay day. Most of us won't receive an actual paycheck. The money will be deposited directly into our checking or savings accounts. It will be there waiting for us to draw it out through an automated teller machine (ATM), debit card, credit card or check....