Colm Lyon, founder of Realex Payments, was awarded the Internet Hero award at the 2009 Golden Spider Awards. Organic Supermarket won the award for "Best Retail & Commercial Shopping Website". The "Best e-business website" award went to LouderVoice.

PayPoint.net contacted us to explain that they provide Payment Service Provider (PSP) and Payment Bureau services for Irish Merchants. You can view their PSP profile in the compare the providers section. We will be adding their Payment Bureau profile over the coming weeks.

American Express is to acquire Revolution Money for $300 million. Revolution Money describe themselves as an alternative payments company. They are frequently described as a PayPal-Killer as they were founded with the express aim of emulating PayPal in online payments and removing expensive credit card fee's in the offline world.

Lucey technology are in the news again with their announcement of offering online payment processing to their clients at 1.24%. We have contacted them to find out details of their service and will update once we know more.

Dave

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