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Roland Moreno, the inventor of the smart card, has died in Paris at the age of 66.
30 April 2012
Visa Europe says it will launch its V.me digital wallet to an initial group of users in the UK, Spain and France this autumn.
Six EU member states - Belgium, Spain, France, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal - have been threatened with legal action by the European Commission unless they comply with one-year old rules on e-money issuance.
27 April 2012
The UK's Serious organised crime agency (Soca) has shut down 36 Web sites used to sell stolen card and bank account details and arrested two men accused of using them.
26 April 2012
The French banking industry has been called upon to make a bigger investment in electronic payment methods, under proposals to halve the number of cheques processed in the next five years.
UK wireless operator O2 has launched its long-awaited mobile wallet under an interim e-money license from IDT Financial Services.
China's mobile payments market is forecast to be the largest in the world by 2015, comprising $80 billion in payments from 441 million active users, according to figures from research house Kapronasia.
25 April 2012
The specialist police unit that tackles UK card and cheque crime claims to have saved the industry over £400 million in fraud losses since its launch ten years ago.
The European Central bank has issued a set of recommendations to promote the security of payments made over the Internet.
20 April 2012
US start-up Dynamics Inc has unveiled a payments card that incorporates buttons that customers can press when they make a purchase in order to receive different reward "experiences".
19 April 2012
Barclaycard has begun rolling out contactless payments stickers that can be attached to mobile phones to its UK Visa credit card customers.
Telekom Austria is to extend its established paybox NFC scheme for parking and transit payments to the merchant point-of-sale.
18 April 2012
MasterCard is moving in on the daily deals market through an initial partnership with deal aggregation and syndication outfit Local Offer Network.
An Iranian hacker claims to have posted the details of around three million debit cards on his blog in a bid to draw attention to a security flaw he says banks are ignoring.
17 April 2012
US gas retailers are failing to pass on savings from the Durbin interchange fee amendments to customers, effectively pocketing a $1 billion a year subsidy, claims the Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) pressure group.
In what it claims is a first, Japan's Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is rolling out ATMs that use palm-scanning biometric technology from Fujitsu to identify customers instead of cards.
12 April 2012
PayPal is rebranding its suite of small business payments programmes as PayPal Payments, deliberately dropping the word 'Website' from its US product range as it moves away from its online roots to embrace mobile and offline opportunities for expansion.
05 April 2012
A systems glitch this week saw some JP Morgan Chase customers in the New York area have their debit card transactions charged twice.
04 April 2012
American Express has hired eBay executive Neal Sample to join the technology team responsible for its digital commerce platform, Serve.
03 April 2012
Google has acquired payments technology company TxVia for an undisclosed fee as it scrambles to give its Wallet service a much-needed shot in the arm. Meanwhile, the firm has lost Wallet co-founder Rob von Behren to rival Square.
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