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		<title>Bank of America May Reconsider Debit Card Fee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America&#8217;s $5-a-month debit card fee may not happen next year as initially planned due to extremely negative feedback from Bank of America customers.  Reuters, citing &#8220;a person familiar with the bank&#8217;s plans&#8221; says B of A may make it possible for many of their customers to avoid the $5 monthly fee, which has ...]]></description>
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		<title>Banks to Start Charging Customers to use Debit Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Bank of America, the largest bank in the USA, said it plans to start charging a $5 monthly fee to customers who used their debit card for purchases.  This is just the first in line of some expected changes as new regulations limit banks&#8217; profits. Wells Fargo and Chase are testing $3 monthly ...]]></description>
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		<title>Drew Doughty Ends Holdout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty ended his holdout on Thursday night agreeing to an 8 year/$56 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings.  Doughty is expected to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to take his physical and sign the contract. The 21 year old defenseman was looking to become the highest paid ...]]></description>
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		<title>Google Announces Launch of NFC Mobile Wallet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google announced on Monday September 19 the commercial launch of its mobile wallet based on NFC (near field communication).  The product, introduced in May had originally only been limited to MasterCard transactions.  However it was announced today that Google had reached deals with Visa, American Express, and Discover to add their cards to the wallet. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers May Not See Much Durbin Benefit From Card-Not-Present Merchants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Durbin Amendment goes into effect in a few weeks and one of the questions plaguing experts over the last few months is how the savings will be passed to consumers.  According a recent survey; internet, catalog, and other card-not-present merchants will either pocket the savings or are undecided. The survey was taken at the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Are Credit Card Companies Scared of Change?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Fantasy Cupcake, located in Canal Winchester, a suburb of Columbus, OH, Leah Dotson (Owner and Operator) has chosen Square as her processor.  This in itself is not news, but what happened next might be a glimpse into the future of credit card companies. Several banks and processors approached Leah about switching over and using ...]]></description>
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		<title>Five Channels for Online Fraud During the Back to School Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ThreatMetrix, a service provider that helps companies stop web fraud and accelerate e-commerce,  has identified five channels prone to online fraud during the back to school season. Historically the back-to-school season represents one of the largest shopping surges in the US, and 2011 looks to be no different.  According to the National Retail Federation, this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Visa Unveils U.S. EMV Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visa, Inc is getting behind the the adoption of contact and contactless EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) in the United States.  They are doing it as a way to prepare the payments infrastructure for NFC (Near Field Communication).  Starting in 2012 Visa will start offering it&#8217;s merchants incentives to switch to contact and contactless point-of-sales ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Fingerprint-Enabled NFC Payment Transaction Completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NXP Semiconductors, AuthenTec, and DeviceFidelity, Inc announced on August 2nd they are jointly developing designs that enable highly secure mobile payments via Android based phones using fingerprints and NFC technology.  Designs created by the companies are expected to help mobile phone OEMs and wireless carriers address the growing demand for NFC capable phones.  The demand ...]]></description>
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		<title>MasterCard Expects NFC to Take Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s only a matter of time before paying with your mobile phone becomes a reality in the US.&#8221;  James Anderson, MasterCard&#8217;s senior vice president of mobile and vice chairman of the NFC Forum, had this to say in an interview on July 21st with Zach Epstein of BGR (Boy Genius Report). Anderson also compared the ...]]></description>
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