August 13, 2008 --
Claremont, CA - August 13, 2008 - Nodus Technologies, Inc. has been named to the 2008 Microsoft Dynamics President's Club, receiving recognition from Microsoft Corp. for its dedicated commitment to customers. This honor reflects Nodus Technologies' success in extending the Microsoft Dynamics platform to drive business advantages in companies worldwide.
This recognition came during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 in Houston. The elite club recognizes the top 5 percent of Microsoft Business Solutions partners worldwide and their constant dedication to delivering solutions that meet their customers' unique needs, active pursuit of product and technological advancement, and impressive sales performance.

) July 15, 2009 -- Nodus Technologies, Inc. (www.nodus.com), a leading business process automation solution provider announced the general availability of CRM Charge 4.0 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans.

The new CRM Charge 4.0 is the first off-the-shelf product that can be easily added-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM to provide real time credit card and electronic check processing.

) July 15, 2009 -- Nodus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of eBusiness Process Automation focused on ePayment and eCommerce solutions, has been named to the 2009 Microsoft Dynamics President's Club, receiving recognition from Microsoft Corp. for its dedicated commitment to customers. For many years, Nodus continues to receive this honor reflecting Nodus Technologies' continuing success in extending the Microsoft Dynamics platform to drive business advantages in companies worldwide.

) May 14, 2009 -- PDG Software, Inc., a leading provider of internet storefront and eCommerce shopping cart solutions, announced today the certification of PDG Commerce Version 5 as a PCI PA-DSS certified payment application. PDG Commerce now becomes the first internet shopping cart and storefront solution currently recommended for new deployments to achieve validation and certification with the Payment Card Industry Standard Security Council's (PCI SSC) Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) program.

) June 25, 2009 -- Element Payment Services announces the launch of the PCI Compliance Quiz Widget, created to help widen the knowledge base of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.

The PCI compliance standards were developed by the major payment card brands, under the umbrella of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, in response to a recent growth in data security breaches. They apply to all businesses that handle payment cards.

) December 18, 2008 - Element Payment Services™, Inc. (Element) announced today that Marathon Data Systems has adopted Hosted Payments, the first payment processing solution to take software providers out-of-scope for PA-DSS (PABP) compliance requirements.

Nodus Technologies, Inc has been named to the 2009 Microsoft Dynamics President's Club, receiving recognition from Microsoft Corp. for its dedicated commitment to customers.

The Merchant Solutions is a leading credit card processing and merchant services provider company. As a provider of an extensive range of payment processing services, the company establishes The Merchant Bills of Rights to help the small and mid-sized business owners to manage fairly the cost and complexity of debit and credit card processing practices. Well-planned as an industry standard, the Merchant Bill of Rights provides clear and simple presentation of processing cost of debit cards and credit cards.
The Merchant Bill of Rights provides following rights to debit and credit card holders.
The right to know exactly who is charging fee for every card payment transaction
The right to know the fee markups
The right to know the fee reductions

) February 5, 2009 -- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards compliance, commonly known as PCI DSS to many, is fast becoming a mandatory requirement for many merchants, service providers, and other third party processors and providers that are directly involved in the processing, storage, or transmission of transaction data or cardholder data. The who, what, when, where, and why of PCI DSS compliance can be daunting at times, as a vast amount of information must be read, comprehended and distilled for truly understanding the dynamics of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance.

Smart Processing Solutions Inc. (SPS), is pleased to announce that their Smart Processing Suite™ has been validated by Visa’s Payment Application Best Practices (PABP).

) October 8, 2009 -- Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), a leading merchant acquirer and payment processor, said today that the recent Visa release of data field encryption best practices provides welcome leadership to merchants, technology professionals, and vendors looking for practical ways to reduce the risk of data breach. EPX is the first payment processor to offer a true end-to-end solution that endorses and incorporates both tokenization and encryption for securing cardholder data from the card reader through the entire transaction lifecycle, and believes the Visa best practices validate their approach.

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) November 18, 2008 -- According to the ShopSpree, a directory of online shops that accept Visa Electron, Solo, PayPal, Maestro cards, the most accepted credit cards online are Visa Card, MasterCard and Maestro card. Shopspree conducted this survey on more than 400 UK-based online shops to find out which credit or debit cards or forms of payment the shops accept. The research found out that 100% of the shops accept Visa card, 99% accept MasterCard and 76% accept Maestro card in online payments.

) October 9, 2008 -- Stradafee Limited is excited and proud to announce the offering of Domestic Credit Card Processing. Stradafee is an independent broker agent that assists merchants as well as merchant service providers to bring the best merchant account options to businesses located in the USA and throughout the world.

) September 18, 2009 -- As a premier provider of the Miva Merchant Hosting online shopping cart program, WebNet Hosting is equipped to provide all online merchants with exactly what they need in order to be fully PCI and PA-DSS compliant. To be fully compliant with the PA-DSS is extremely important because those that are found to be non-compliant can be leveraged with serious fines ranging from $5,000 to as much as $100,000 per month.

) October 9, 2008 -- Prepaid Expense Card Solutions, Inc., today announced the launch of the PEX Visa® Prepaid Card, issued by The Bancorp Bank; Member FDIC. The PEX Card Service is the first turnkey prepaid card program designed specifically for employee spend management within small and medium sized businesses. Unlike credit or debit cards, PEX Card provides companies additional control by enabling them to allocate money exactly when and where it's required - funding cards with only the money needed, protecting organizations against misuse and increasing cash flow control.

) June 29, 2009 -- USA ePay was pleased to announce today that their Wireless ePay Credit Card Processing application can now be readily downloaded for free from BlackBerry's App World as well as the Android Marketplace.

BlackBerry with WePay Device

) March 30, 2009 -- Verrus Mobile Technologies Inc, a global leader in the mobile payment industry, is pleased to announce it has achieved compliance validation as a Level 1 service provider with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) - the industry's highest level of payment account data security certification.

Verrus Mobile Technologies, Inc.

) December 1, 2008 -- New West Technologies, Inc. has announced its Mobile Retail Platform (MRP) has been approved by VISA to be Compliant with PCI Standards.

NWT - PCI DSS Compliant

Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance is a complex and ever evolving subject affecting millions of businesses - acquiring banks, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), processors, hosts, shopping carts, e-commerce and retail merchants and other merchant services providers.

) April 30, 2009 -- iVeri Payment Technologies (pronounced "ivory"), a leading provider of multi-channel e-payment solutions, has licensed its Payment Gateway and MiCard™ e-payment processing solution to Dashen Bank SC, a private commercial bank in Ethiopia. iVeri's Payment Gateway will help Dashen Bank to become the first bank in Ethiopia to acquire mCommerce, eCommerce and Mobile merchant transactions. The bank has also chosen iVeri's MiCard™ software which for the first time will enable Dashen Bank account holders to interact with the bank via SMS.

) November 1, 2008 -- Integrity Payment Systems today announced that bankcard security expert, Mr. David Press, has joined Integrity Payment Systems full time, reinforcing that merchant services company's commitment to controlling the fraud risk associated with credit card processing for merchants. David Press is a highly experienced credit card consultant, investigator and expert witness who has an extensive background in credit card operations, risk management, chargeback and collections, and fraud detection/investigation He has worked with numerous financial institutions and also possesses extensive experience working with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

) October 6, 2009 -- As the remaining Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) deadlines approach, e-commerce merchants must quickly determine how to bring their checkout process into alignment with the new required standards for protecting sensitive cardholder data. To ease the burden, CRE Secure Payments, LLC has unveiled a Hosted Payment Page technology aimed at reducing the scope and cost of PCI Compliance for e-commerce merchants by moving the storage, processing and transmittal of payment information from the merchant's environment to a PCI-Compliant data center without interrupting checkout flow.

) June 25, 2009 -- Merchant Data Systems (merchantdatasystems.com), a full service payment processing company, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small- to medium-sized merchants, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

PCI Compliance Solutions Provider, ControlScan

TimesofMoney, a leading online remittance and payment service provider has successfully completed the assessment procedure to validate its compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

) July 14, 2009 -- T-Gate LLC, a pioneering provider of PCI PA-DSS secure payment platforms announces the launch of the final components of T-Gate Payment Gateway. Combining a powerful back-end platform, secure data centers and industry leading choices to any processor, any payment channel and any payment type; T-Gates partner integrators and customers can now leverage a solution that delivers superior transaction processing and extraordinary reliability without the legacy challenges that lock down payments options by partner or technology limitations.

) August 18, 2009 -- First American Payment Systems, L.P. ("First American"), one of the fastest growing electronic payments processors in the U.S., has partnered with Trustwave to create a program called PCI Smart in order to help merchants achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world.

) April 28, 2009 -- Signature Card Services (signaturecard.com), a leading provider of credit and debit card payment processing services, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions. The partnership allows Signature Card to take a proactive approach in assisting their small and medium-sized merchants in meeting the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

) July 15, 2009 -- T-Gate LLC, a pioneering provider of PCI PA-DSS secure payment platforms announces the launch of PayLink. PayLink is an industry first single web interface for all processing needs, PayLink offers a secure, smooth integration between the POS and T-Gate's PCI compliant universal payment gateway. PayLink removes the transaction from the POS ensuring the most secure transaction processing available.

) May 5, 2009 -- NeoSpire, Inc. announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a participating organization. Over the past four years NeoSpire has been working with all levels of merchants and service providers to remove the burden of security and compliance through our fully-managed hosting solutions. Now as a Participating Organization, NeoSpire will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.

) December 15, 2008 -- Adeptra, (www.adeptra.com) the global market leader in auto-resolution services, has re-validated its compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the industry standard for the protection of payment card customer account data. Adeptra was the first company in its field to gain external certification, following an initial audit in November 2007. This latest review reconfirms the company's position as the sole auto-resolution provider recognized as compliant by an external Qualified Security Assessor in both the US and Europe.

) September 4, 2009 -- Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), an industry-leading provider of secure, end-to-end payment solutions for merchants across all distribution channels, and ClaimLogic, a leader in providing revenue cycle management products and services in the healthcare industry, announced a partnership today that enables ClaimLogic to provide PCI-compliant credit card processing services to their client base.

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) August 4, 2009 -- CRE Secure, the first cloud-based security payment system that is fully compliant with new credit card security rules, announces today that it has expanded its PCI compliant credit card processing security service with a new integrated connection to Authorize.net, the most popular payment gateway in North America. Online retailers and web based applications who take credit and debit cards using Authorize.net as their payment gateway can now sign up for CRE Secure PCI Security and still keep their existing connection to Authorize.net and their existing merchant banking relationships.

) July 30, 2009 -- Addison, TX based Encore Payment Systems, www.EncorePS.com, a leader in the electronic payment processing industry, is proud to introduce the Encore Payment Systems iPhone Mobile Application.

This new application gives small business merchants, independent contractors and mobile merchants the ability to utilize Encore's payment processing solutions without a need for hardware processing equipment or a dedicated internet line.

) November 11, 2008 -- IP Commerce, Inc. and PaySimple today jointly announce the launch of Commerce Enrollment™, an automated online merchant account application. IP Commerce and PaySimple co-developed the online merchant application, and PaySimple completed its beta launch, finding that the process to qualify and approve its merchants for a merchant account was much more efficient than legacy processes. In addition, PaySimple found the application improved overall customer experience.

) June 4, 2009 -- Why a merchant may need an offshore merchant account - Merchants, especially those that transact business internationally may find it beneficial to use an offshore or non-domestic bank to process their credit card transactions. This can benefit the merchant because many non-domestic banks have a lot of experience in multi-currency transaction processing and have high volume merchant account processing capabilities.

) January 13, 2009 -- Cred-Ex (www.Cred-Ex.com) prepares to launch its new alternative payment solution. Cred-Ex helps combat identity theft through its patented process.

) August 5, 2009 -- INetU Managed Hosting (http://www.inetu.net/), an enterprise managed hosting provider, announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a Participating Organization, INetU will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.

) May 14, 2009 -- Cred-Ex (www.Cred-Ex.com), in conjunction with CardinalCommerce (www.cardinalcommerce.com), is ready to launch its new (MAP) Merchant Advantage Program. With this program, Cred-Ex helps participating online merchants increase their conversion rates and attract new traffic. Through its patented technology, Cred-Ex assists participating merchants in assessing credit-worthy customers at the checkout page.

) June 23, 2009 -- Avangate, full service provider of electronic software distribution and reseller management solutions for software vendors, today announced to have obtained for its services the Level 1 PCI DSS certification (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), the most important security standard for the card payment industry. The PCI DSS includes a set of comprehensive requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures.

) September 8, 2009 -- Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, today announced the release of a free payment module extension for the eCommerce platform Magento, a Varien company. Developed as an Open Source solution for the eCommerce marketplace, Magento is easy to use and simple to customize, allowing developers to create plug-ins and extensions to expand the platform`s capabilities for online merchants.

) October 2, 2009 -- 100 Best, Inc., a leader in providing information on ecommerce services, recently recognized Merchant Warehouse as the best merchant account provider for businesses that accept credit cards. This recognition is given to the merchant account provider that has demonstrated its commitment to providing the best merchant accounts and merchant services possible.