I don’t have time this morning to write any detailed blog posts: So let me share a few links that caught my interest for blogging topics:
- Coinstar Machines Turn Change into iTunes Credit – TibBits – get gift cards from coin counting machines
- Beware: Circuit City Gift Cards – Payment News – Use it or lose it, Retail Gift Cards for struggling retailers are best not to hold on to.
- Discover To Participate in TARP, Becomes Bank Holding Company – Payment News – DiscoverBank
- Discover PCI Levels Defined: See: Here (Treasury Institute), and here (GreenSheet). The Short of it is that Discover has aligned their PCI Merchant Levels to that of MC and Visa.
- ATM Skimmers are getting sneakier – Network Security Blog – Video of an wireless ATM Card Skimmer
- MasterCard dispels myths, highlights benefits of payment networks – (GreenSheet) – MC has released a paper "Benefits of Open Payment Systems and the Role of Interchange" with some links to audio and video – some good basic stuff here on a payment transaction.
