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Turkey's Garanti Bank is to start offering its Bonus cardholders free Facebook Credits when they use their cards to make online and offline purchases.
03 February 2012
Microsoft has shipped Kinect for Windows, widening the appeal of its motion sensor technology beyond gamers to big business, with American Express among the firms already developing applications.
02 February 2012
US bank Citi has added visual tracking and account analysis tools for US credit card customers to its iPad app.
31 January 2012
President Obama's re-election campaign is using mobile payments start-up Square to let staffers and volunteers accept card donations in a move being followed by potential Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
Following the lead of rival Visa, MasterCard has set out plans to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.
Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is preparing to introduce a contactless mobile payments service.
27 January 2012
MasterCard has teamed up with Commonwealth Bank and cinema group Hoyts to pilot a mobile payments application that lets movie-goers order food and drinks directly from their seats.
24 January 2012
UK e-commerce outfit Powa has become the latest firm to launch a plastic dongle and mobile app that turns smartphones into payment card readers.
23 January 2012
Singapore's banks will introduce EMV chip technology to all ATM cards over the next two years as part of an industry-wide security push.
20 January 2012
An alleged Russian cybercriminal has been extradited from Switzerland to the US to face charges of credit card fraud, computer hacking and stockmarket manipulation.
19 January 2012
Banking giant Citi has used its investment arm to take a strategic stake in Plastic Jungle, an online exchange for gift cards. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
American Express has licensed its Serve digital wallet platform to Chinese mobile top-up provider Lianlian Group and made a $125 million equity investment in the firm's overseas unit.
18 January 2012
India's ICICI has launched a Facebook app that lets customers carry out banking tasks without leaving the social network.
Israeli hackers have targeted the Web sites of stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi in retaliation for an attack earlier this week on the Tel Aviv bourse.
Following a recent skimming scam, Singapore's DBS Bank has started sending customers text alerts when ATM withdrawals are made using their cards.
Mexican bank Banorte has teamed with payments specialist Rev Worldwide to launch a mobile-based financial services programme aimed at the country's millions of underbanked.
17 January 2012
Following its decision last year to push the adoption of EMV in the United States, Visa has moved to clarify that this does not mean the introduction of chip and PIN cards.
US merchants with Ingenico point-of-sale terminals will be able to accept PayPal payments from customers, under a deal struck between the two firms.
Around £1 in every £3 in the UK was spent on Visa cards in 2011, with growth in debit and e-commerce payments fuelling a strong year for the European card scheme, which is now training its sights on mobile services.
Thieves in Manchester spent six months digging a 100-foot tunnel to reach a cash machine but made off with a paltry £6000 for their troubles.
16 January 2012
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