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UK card design outfit Serverside has won the second dismissal in a patent infringement suit brought against 15 US credit unions and technology suppliers.
07 December 2011
UK payments processor VocaLink has apppointed David Yates from Western Union as its new chief executive, taking over from Marion King who steps down after nine years at the helm.
06 December 2011
Green Dot, the US prepaid card outfit with designs on entering the retail banking market, has hired Visa's head of global development John MacIlwaine as it new Chief Information Officer.
05 December 2011
PayPal has overtaken credit cards as a preferred form of payment for consumers shopping on the Web, according to a survey of global shopping habits conducted by KPMG.
Dickson Chu, the high profile and often outspoken head of digital and mobile networks at Citi, has quit the bank to join daily deals outfit LivingSocial.
02 December 2011
Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.
01 December 2011
MasterCard has made a strategic investment in US mobile money outfit mFoundry, leading a funding round that also includes Intel Capital, Fidelity Information Services and Motorola Mobility.
Online collective Anonymous has teamed up with hacker group TeaMp0isoN on its latest campaign, OpRobinHood; using stolen credit card details to "donate" to the "99%".
30 November 2011
MasterCard has teamed up with manufacturer Laks and issuer Vincento to launch a wristwatch featuring PayPass contactless payments technology.
29 November 2011
PayPal says that 2016 will mark the tipping point for mobile payments in the UK, when consumers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for everyday items on the high street rather than cash, cheques or cards.
25 November 2011
US pre-paid card outfit Green Dot has been given the all clear by regulators to buy Bonneville, a small Utah-based bank.
24 November 2011
US merchant lobby groups have filed a suit against the Federal Reserve over allegations that the US central bank caved in to bank demands to raise the cap on debit fees by including expenses that were not permissible under law.
23 November 2011
Barclays says it will roll out 'talking ATMs' in the UK next year, backing the Royal National Institute of Blind People's Make Money Talk campaign.
UK banks are participating in a war games-style market exercise to test their responses to a concerted cyber attack and the threats posed to their business by traffic gridlock at the 2012 Olympics.
22 November 2011
US financial institutions have been warned of the potential for rising fraud rates from the expansion of remote deposit capture technology to the retail and unbanked sector.
Visa has formed an alliance with Shopkick, the US developer of a mobile geo-location-based app, to provide users with reward deals when they make payments.
21 November 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has signed a deal with Wincor Nixdorf and Armaguard Group to replace its 4100-strong ATM fleet with EMV chip-enabled machines.
TfL's plans to let travellers pay for their journeys using contactless bank cards have been branded "unconvincing" by the London Assembly in a report raising questions about the fairness, security and cost-saving potential of a new system.
18 November 2011
Targeting the vast unbanked market in developing countries, Visa has launched a pre-paid account that can be accessed through mobile phones.
17 November 2011
Grinches will find it tougher to side-step donation-seeking members of the Salvation Army on the streets of America this Christmas after the charity struck a deal with Square to enable it to accept credit card donations.
16 November 2011
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