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Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co., has partnered with British Airways to launch a new benefits program for international travelers. Beginning this month customers will pay no foreign transaction fee on international purchases via the British Airways Visa Signature® Card from Chase.

A worldwide gift card distribution network Blackhawk Network has launched a new brand of prepaid products called PayPower.

PayPower enables consumers to control their spending with simple and convenient solutions that feature value, transparency, security and budgeting.

The new suit of prepaid products and services targets consumers who search for alternatives to traditional financial credit, whether for everyday use, travel, online purchases or simply to pay a bill.

One of the leading payment processors of the world Visa Inc. has announced the first phase of a national marketing campaign to raise consumer awareness about the benefits of using reloadable prepaid debit cards instead of cash for purchases. The campaign is designed to reach financially underserved consumers in particular - those without a traditional banking relationship, access to a payment card or mainstream financial services, and who rely heavily on cash for everyday transactions.

The South African economy has seen a boost in foreign visitor spending on Visa cards during the lead-up to and during the 2010 FIFA World CupTM, according to the latest cardholder spending data from Visa Inc.

During the period leading up to the kickoff of the FIFA World CupTM and the end of the tournament (Tuesday, 1 June through Sunday, 11 July), spending by international visitors in South Africa on Visa-branded payment cards exceeded US$312 million (R2.4 billion).

Visa Inc. has announced today global industry best practices for tokenization to provide guidance to merchants, vendors, service providers and acquirers and promote safer merchant payment environments. Based on Visa's experience working with the industry and also insights from data compromise investigations, the tokenization best practices are the latest in a series of guidance to help merchants reduce or eliminate sensitive card data from payment systems and simplify data security and compliance efforts. 

Choice Hotels International has introduced the new Choice Privileges® Visa Signature® Card. The new card which is issued by Barclaycard US features no annual fee and special bonus program. It automatically upgrades to Elite Gold status and is available starting July 1.

A cardholder earns 8,000 bonus points immediately after his/her first purchase and another 8,000 bonus points after their first paid stay with the new Choice Privileges Visa card at a Choice brand hotel. Using these points customers can stay for two nights at any of over 1,500 Choice Privileges locations.

A Visa-enabled iPhone was unveiled by DeviceFidelity this week. DeviceFidelity has partnered with Visa for combining Visa payWave, and In2Pay technology to transform a mobile phone with a microSD memory slot into a mobile contactless payment device.

The result of their collaboration is a "patent-pending protective case that adds mobile contactless capability and works with iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G."

Wells Fargo Visa credit cardholders can now enable an alert service to prevent fraudulent transactions and better manage their spending.

A new service launched by Wells Fargo in association with Visa is known as Rapid Alerts. It s based on Visa’s transaction alerts platform. Alerts are sent on behalf of Wells Fargo directly from VisaNet, Visa’s global processing network, typically within seconds of a transaction occurring.

A reloadable prepaid card provider nFinanSe is reducing its fees for cardholders on their ATM withdrawals and electronic bill payment transactions. The company’s aim is to have its customers more actively use its Visa® and Discover® Reloadable Prepaid Cards.

The Bancorp Bank Payment Solutions Group, a division of The Bancorp Bank (“Bancorp”), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc., today announced that Bancorp, in collaboration with InsurCard, have joined with the New Jersey Insurance Underwriting Association (NJIUA) to offer a program to provide immediate cash payments to New Jersey policyholders in the event of a catastrophe. The NJIUA is an association created by the state of New Jersey in 1968 to provide essential property insurance to any person unable to obtain insurance coverage.

 nFinanSe Inc. announced it will be launching its new Visa® Reloadable Prepaid Debit Card in Winn-Dixie Supermarkets in December 2009.

As shown, the new, deep gold card and stylish metallic blue packaging present a bold, striking, yet elegant effect, and has been designed to attract the eye of a consumer as she approaches a retail store display fixture. The card and packaging were designed by Fifty Eight Advertising, an Atlanta-based advertising firm. 

 VerifySmart(TM) Corp.: ("VerifySmart" or the "Company"), a global leader in secure and fraud free credit and debit payment processing services, is pleased to announce the successful implementation of its patent-pending PIN authentication system, VerifyNGo(TM), for immediate worldwide use with its VeriSmart(TM) Cards. VerifySmart customers in Europe, Asia and North America can now instantly and securely disburse funds through VeriSmart Visa cards using their own personal PIN to authenticate transfers.

 Chase Card Services has launched a suite of business cards Ink that was developed specifically for small businesses. This business card portfolio includes four distinct cards "to deliver on the unique needs of small business owners and marks Chase’s introduction of a pay-in-full charge card – a first from issuers of Visa or MasterCard."