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State Employees' Credit Union (Secu) is set to be one of the first financial institutions in the US to roll out chip and PIN debit cards to its customers.
01 March 2011
Widespread adoption of contactless mobile payments is still at least two years away thanks to poor coordination between industry players, according to a survey from vendor Sybase 365.
24 February 2011
Wireless operator Orange is stepping up its assault on the contactless payments market with the imminent launch of an NFC-enabled Samsung handset in key European countries.
14 February 2011
South Korean electronics giant LG is preparing to launch contactless mobile payments technology in Europe by 2012, according to Reuters.
01 February 2011
With the hype building ahead of Apple's widely expected step into contactless payments through the upcoming iPhone 5, IDC Financial Insights analyst Aaron McPherson has moved to dampen over-excited expectations.
28 January 2011
Visa Europe has teamed with NFC specialist Wireless Dynamics on a system that turns iPhones into contactless mobile payments systems.
27 January 2011
Barclaycard and network operator Everything Everywhere are set to launch the UK's first commercial contactless mobile phone payments system this summer.
A Reserve Bank of India working group has called for the nation's banks to introduce two-factor authentication for online banking and recommended a move to Chip-only card transactions at the ATM and point-of-sale.
Following trials in California and New York, coffee chain Starbucks is rolling out its mobile payments service to nearly 6800 stores across the US.
19 January 2011
US organisations are broadly positive about the value of PCI compliance, with 70% arguing that they are more secure than they would be if the requirements were not in place, according to a Cisco-commissioned survey.
14 January 2011
A judge has jailed two men for their parts in a card skimming spree at Northern California gas stations that netted more than $90,000.
13 January 2011
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has confirmed that his new mobile payments venture Square has raised $27.5 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
11 January 2011
More than 200,000 UK credit and debit card holders have been double-charged for transactions conducted on New Years Eve following a payment processing failure at Lloyds TSB Cardnet.
06 January 2011
French payment terminal vendor Ingenico says it has received a takeover offer worth around EUR1.44 billion from an undisclosed bidder.
17 December 2010
National Australia Bank has been hit by more tech woes today, with ATMs, Internet banking and card processing all affected by intermittent network issues.
08 December 2010
National Australia Bank says it has finally identified and fixed a corrupted file that knocked out its payment processing systems early last week and continued to play havoc with its electronic banking services into the weekend.
29 November 2010
VeriFone has signed a $485 million, all-stock, definitive agreement to buy rival card terminal outfit Hypercom just weeks after a hostile bid was rejected.
17 November 2010
US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have appointed GE Capital veteran Michael Abbott to head up a new contactless mobile payments joint venture.
16 November 2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the latest upgrade to the firm's Android mobile phone operating system will include near field communication technology, enabling users to make contactless payments with their handsets.
Contactless cards acceptance in Australia has been boosted by news that Visa and MasterCard have both signed major retailers to the technology.
08 November 2010
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