by MBJ Staff Published: May 30,2012
Tags: banking, Banks, checking accounts, criminals, debit cards, deposits, finance, financial insitutions, savings accounts, scam, state agency, theft, thieves
TUPELO — Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley is warning Mississippi consumers of a weekend series of scam calls claiming to be BancorpSouth asking customers to either validate or re-instate their debit cards. Presley said his office contacted officials with BancorpSouth and verified that the calls were indeed a scam. Similar calls went out a few [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 13,2012
Tags: clinic, credit cards, debit cards, entertainment, misappropriations, municipal government, SCANDAL, sex, state agency, state government, taxes, taxpayers, treatment
SOUTHAVEN — The office of Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering is revising the amount that Southaven Mayor Greg Davis must repay to taxpayers after aldermen determined that about $6,000 in charges to the mayor’s city-issued credit card were not city-related expenses. “We didn’t have enough documentation to justify approximately $6,000 as city expenses,” Aldermen Ronnie Hale [...] [...]

Retailers, gas stations, restaurateurs and other businesses that regularly receive payment through customer debit cards won the day in the U.S. Senate last Wednesday, with opponents of caps on debit card swipe fees falling short of votes needed to delay implementation of the caps for two years. The Senate vote lets the Federal Reserve limit [...] [...]

OXFORD — National Processing Company (NPC) has entered into a multi-year independent sales organization (ISO) contract renewal with Security Card Services, LLC, for debit and credit card processing services to merchants and financial institutions. “Security Card Services, LLC has partnered with NPC for the past 14 years and we have developed powerful strategies to achieve [...] [...]