Still, experts think non-credit-card payment services will be a growth business over the next few years.
Today the company also negotiates pricing with insurance companies and even handles doctors' back-office payment services.
The company is working on expanding offline presence of its payment services to drive future growth.
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Security has been a top concern among people MasterCard has surveyed about mobile-payment services.
Without a legal framework, telecoms operators find it hard to sign deals with payment services.
In theory, that leaves plenty of room for private payment services to bridge the gap.
New York-based 800America.com touted its Web sites, offering everything from online payment services to sales of closed-out merchandise.
The Internet-based auction site purchased two online classifieds businesses and the online payment services company Bill Me Later.
Discover Financial Services is a leading credit card issuer in the United States and an electronic payment services company.
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This is a rule designed to bring online payment services into the banking regulatory framework, where it rightly belongs.
Commissions charged for third-party payment services would also be subject to PBOC approval.
Under European laws, the deal means Bitcoin-Central becomes a Payment Services Provider (PSP) that has an International Bank ID number.
This was despite the attempts by major banks like Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp to popularize their own mobile payment services.
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We're still seeing payment services which are as good or as bad now as they were 30 or 50 or even 100 years ago.
Unlike online payment services that give people with credit cards easier ways to transact business, Bitcoin works best when avoiding the traditional financial system completely.
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Easier, cheaper online-payment services will boost e-commerce in the Middle East.
With the growing adoption of mobile payment services consumers are able to carry out their shopping with their phones while comparing goods and services from competing vendors.
Lloyds said that all of its other payment services had been unaffected by the problem, and that customers could still process the "significant majority" of their transactions.
Payment services like Google and Amazon take a small cut of the transaction, but they allow customers to skip all the form fields simply by entering a password.
There's also NFC inside, but rather than use it for mobile wallet payment services, Sony's promoting its programmable Smart Tags -- accessories similar to Samsung's TecTiles.
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But many individuals and businesses already use bill payment services provided by many merchants and financial institutions such as Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America, and others.
Blackhawk, a worldwide gift-card marketing network that provides prepaid products and payment services to consumers, operates a network of retail stores in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.
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PayPal and Discover compete with Visa, American Express and private companies such as Square that offer innovative payment services (or aim to) in place of cash and checks.
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Mobile-payment services respond that the added levels of security, required of all registered payment service providers, can make these payments safer than handing a credit or debit card to a waiter.
Alibaba recently transferred ownership of the unit to Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, a move the company said was necessary to comply with Chinese regulations barring foreign investment in domestic online payment services.
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Since October MOL and Friendster have had a strategic partnership in which MOL agreed to provide a variety of payment services to Friendster users, including a virtual wallet and fraud management services.
The Company operates 3, 086 banking offices in 25 states and 5, 080 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.
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Given the current gold rush to offer mobile payment services, promises like these seem likely to attract at least some developers, particularly since competing services remain far from the developer recruitment phase.
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The company operates 3, 084 banking offices in 25 states and 5, 065 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.
He was previously co-founder and CEO of Accept.com, a consumer-to-consumer payment services company acquired by Amazon in 1999, and Good Technology, a provider of secure mobility solutions, which Motorola bought in 2007.
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