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Canadian consumers who use MasterCard to pay at credit card machines will soon have a new bank managing their card accounts.

With the prepaid card market taking off, social networking giant Facebook is hoping to lure holiday shoppers into purchasing its branded gift cards at Target point-of-sale terminals.

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Merchant Account

• 01/09/2010 - Target to sell Facebook gift cards
• 12/08/2010 - University of Saskatchewan no longer accepts Visa
• 22/07/2010 - Retail sales down for second consecutive month
• 15/07/2010 - Retailers and merchant accounts see an increase of small business credit cards

Credit Card Processing

• 03/09/2010 - CIBC acquires Citigroup's MasterCard business
• 23/08/2010 - Credit card rates hit highest level in nine years
• 19/08/2010 - Satisfaction with credit card companies rebounds
• 17/08/2010 - New credit regulations hope to educate cardholders and prevent abuses

Point-of-Sale Terminals

• 31/08/2010 - Visa spending soars at Youth Olympic Games
• 27/08/2010 - Target trading gift cards for used electronics
• 26/08/2010 - Quebec restaurants required to install new payment technology to fight tax evasion
• 24/08/2010 - Private-label credit cards experience market resurgence

Security and Fraud

• 26/08/2010 - Visa announces new best practices for payment applications
• 29/07/2010 - Banks get creative to promote overdraft protection
• 27/07/2010 - Tokenization can eliminate PCI compliance worries
• 26/07/2010 - Chip-and-pin technology has reduced fraud, but not interest rates

Press Releases

• 08/12/2010 - Pivotal Payments Partners With StoresOnline to Offer Entrepreneurs Simplified Payment Solution
• 08/04/2010 - Pivotal Payments Partners with Pinnacle Cart to Provide Payment Gateway Services to Internet Merchants
• 07/29/2010 - Pivotal Payments and 411.ca Team Up to Offer Canadian Merchants a More Complete Business Solution
• 07/22/2010 - Pivotal Payments Launches All-in-One E-commerce Solution