Having spent fortunes on branding, credit-card firms and Banks do not want to see other payment systems gain ground.

对投入了大量资金构建品牌的信用卡公司及银行而言，他们并不希望看到其他支付系统发展壮大。

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With their grip on the market, Banks and credit-card firms want to be in a position to collect most of the fees from the users of mobile and contactless-payment systems.

银行和发卡机构牢牢抓住这一市场，更希望从手机和非接触支付系统中攫取更大利润。

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The systems, also installed at Shell convenience stores, are directly linked to customers' checking or credit-card accounts for payment.

同样这种系统还装在了壳牌便利店内。系统和顾客支票或信用卡帐户直接相连来进行付款。

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This has been a source of pain for credit card payment companies as well as banks as the credit card business represents a sizable part of their business models and the mobile payment systems were often advertised as significantly cheaper alternatives to the card payment systems.

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As the analysts report, new Federal Reserve rules assert that alternative payment systems like PayPal are not payment card networks subject to a provision known as the Durbin amendment that caps interchange fees.

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In the midst of that ongoing hacker pile-on, Sony has remained unwisely mum, says Jason Maloni, a crisis public relations executive at Levick Strategic Communications, which handled the response to Heartland Payment Systems breach of as many as 100 million credit card numbers in 2009.

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