Western Union announced on Tuesday (Aug. 26) that it had expanded its online and mobile money transfer options into Austria,Belgium,Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Financial services and EMV card production firm CPI Card Group will acquire EFT Source, Inc., according to an EFT announcement.EFT specializes in turnkey card programs and personalization services for ATM and debit cards for financial institutions. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

IT services firm Sonata Software announced earlier this week that it purchased a majority stake in cloud-based travel management company Rezopia Inc. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Apple’s long-rumored iWatch will have to work as a fashion accessory, but more important are the implications of iOS-based wearables on the accessibility and ubiquity of data, suggests David Willson at Seeking Alpha. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Bank branches in the U.S., which have been closing at a rapid pace as retail banks try to cut costs, are actually rising in popularity among customers, Payments Cards and Mobile reported.According to a survey of 1,000 U.S. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Square has upgraded its Square Cash P2P payment app with the ability to send payments via text messages, and raised the ante in its competition with PayPal-owned Venmo, according to VentureBeat. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Amazon has sold only 35,000 of its new Fire phones in the first 20 days after it went on sale in July, according to data crunched by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper.Amazon doesn’t release sales figures for any of its devices.…

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