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Ogone Payment Services processes

25 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Despite the economic crisis, Ogone has enjoyed a 35.4% increase in turnover processed on its platforms in 2012 and expects similar growth figures for 2013. This significant evolution opens up... read more

OpenWay and LICARD’s IT project promotes cashless and contactless payments

25 Jan 13 @ 00:00

LICARD, a key player in the Russian and CIS fuel card market, and OpenWay, a leading international developer of IT solutions for payment card issuing and acquiring, have implemented a... read more

Saral Money, India’s national public and private sector prepaid banking service

23 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Global payments solutions provider, Yalamanchili, today announces that its next generation payments platform is underpinning  Saral Money, India’s  recently announced national electronic payment service created by five of the country’s... read more

MPOS application to be deployed in Caribbean

23 Jan 13 @ 00:00

CHARGE Anywhere has signed a distribution partnership with Tech It Easy (TIE), a retail sales and support of telecommunications products provider, in the Virgin Islands. TIE is expanding their service... read more

Two-thirds of banks hit by Distributed Denial of Service attack in past 12 months

23 Jan 13 @ 00:00

More than two-thirds (64%) of IT & IT security practitioners reported that their banks have suffered at least one Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in the last 12 months,... read more

Younger consumers adverse to credit

22 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Younger consumers (under 35 years old) favour debit cards and cash as their main method of payment over credit, according to research from the Auriemma Consulting Groups (ACG). Debit card... read more

RIM enhances mobile payments solution

22 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Bell ID says its Token Manager Software is being used by Research In Motion (RIM) in its Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution for NFC mobile payments.  Bell ID Mobile Token... read more

Telefonica pushes P2P mobile money service

22 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Telefonica Deutschland will make available a smartphone-to-smartphone direct money transfer service and a digital wallet from mid-February, saying it is investing early in new growth markets of the future and... read more

IsBank enables mobile prestaging at 5,000 ATMs

22 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Turkey-based SoftTech has developed IsCep, a cash withdrawal service that integrates the mobile banking platform of Turkey’s IsBank with the bank’s ATMs. The system reduces transaction time at the ATM... read more

Citibank launches paperless mobile payment system

22 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Citibank India announced a new paperless mobile payment system for its credit and debit card customers that would do away with the charge slips and be implemented for the entire... read more

eBay beat estimates and pushes mobile sales

21 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Early market data from the 2012 holiday shopping season confirms a well-known trend:  mobile is becoming a major factor in the evolution of retail channels, particularly e-commerce.  The 2012 Thanksgiving... read more

Bango and Telefónica announce global mobile payments partnership

21 Jan 13 @ 00:00

eBay, operator of the world’s largest online marketplace, surged to an eight-year high after fourth-quarter revenue topped analysts’ estimates, helped by record holiday sales on the web and mobile devices.... read more

Mobile payments to reach $90 billion by 2017

21 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Bango and Telefónica Digital announce that they have signed a Global Framework Agreement. The two companies will partner globally to create an enhanced direct-to-bill payment experience for mobile app stores.... read more

Brits trust banks more than government to protect them from fraud

21 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Four fifths (80 per cent) of Brits think that government and law enforcement agencies only do an average or below average job of fighting card or account fraud, according to... read more

SIA central Europe: new transactions record achieved in Hungary in 2012

21 Jan 13 @ 00:00

SIA Central Europe achieved a new record in transactions in Hungary over the last year. In 2012, the hub of the SIA Group in Central Europe also focusing on card... read more

Tablet banking taking off

16 Jan 13 @ 00:00

You see them everywhere these days – iPads, electronic tablets, and e-readers – and now they are making headway as online banking tools.  According to a recent survey by SYNERGISTICS... read more

Visa annual cardholder expenditure exceeds €1trillion on debit cards

15 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Annual spend on Visa debit cards across Europe has exceeded €1trillion (€1.02 tn) for the first time. The figure represents an annual increase of 8.8%, reports payments technology company Visa... read more

TSYS and Visa support people-centered payments in India

15 Jan 13 @ 00:00

TSYS technology is playing its part in an innovative payment solution launched by Visa in India. The Saral Money program provides Indian consumers with access to financial services and electronic... read more

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12 Jan 26 @ 22:32

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Copilot Checkout signals Microsoft’s push into agentic commerce

12 Jan 26 @ 17:59

Microsoft has taken a decisive step towards embedding agentic commerce directly into generative AI, partnering with PayPal, Stripe and Shopify to launch Copilot... more

Trump proposes credit card rate cap

12 Jan 26 @ 22:01

President Donald Trump’s renewed push to impose a one-year cap of 10 per cent on US credit card interest rates has jolted financial markets and reopened a lon... more