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Poland's PKO Bank Polski is upgrading six million customer Visa debit cards to contactless chip and PIN, according to local press reports.
22 January 2010
Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo (Setefi) has embarked on the country's first major commercial nationwide rollout of MasterCard PayPass contactless cards.
20 January 2010
Wireless operator Orange and Barclaycard have launched a co-branded contactless credit card that will let customers manage their budgets and keep tabs on spending via SMS notifications.
07 January 2010
US merchant Best Buy has stopped accepting Visa payWave contactless payments at its 1000 stores in protest at the card giant's fee structure, according to retail technology blog StorefrontBacktalk.
Millions of German bank cardholders have been hit by a Y2K-hangover bug which prevents card chips supplied by French technology company Gemalto from recognising the year 2010 change.
06 January 2010
A Y2K-style bug affecting Bank of Queensland Eftpos terminals has left merchants across Australia unable to process card transactions over the New Year.
04 January 2010
Around 30,000 financial services staff in Finland are set to go on a three day strike next week, leaving virtually all bank branches closed and online, ATM and in-store services subject to disruption.
10 December 2009
Debit card fraud in Australia has jumped over the last year according to the country's payments clearing association, driven by a spate of skimming attacks on ATMs and POS terminals.
09 December 2009
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has officially launched his new company, called Square, that sells a system to turn mobile phones into payment card readers.
02 December 2009
Over half of Americans are interested in using their mobile phones like they would a credit or debit card at the cash register to make a purchase, according to research from m-banking vendor Firethorn.
Bank of Montreal, MasterCard and Research in Motion (RIM) are teaming up on a trial that will see Canadians make payments using BlackBerrys equipped with contactless stickers.
26 November 2009
A group of US restaurants have filed a class action lawsuit against POS vendor Radiant Systems and its distributor Computer World, claiming hundreds of their customers had their identities stolen as a result of payments terminals that were not PCI-DSS compliant.
Crooks in Canada have compromised thousands of cards after installing debit machines that recorded PIN numbers in stores, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
23 November 2009
BNP Paribas is teaming with Oberthur Technologies on a contactless mobile payment project designed to turn Nice into France's "NFC city".
18 November 2009
HSBC is collaborating with Visa on a six-month internal pilot of a combined multi-application credit and debit card.
Oberthur Technologies has teamed with Banca Popolare di Sondrio on a pre-paid contactless Visa card that can also be used for ID and access control by students and staff at two Milanese universities.
17 November 2009
Improvements in online banking security, prototypes for 'ultra-mobile' m-payments, contactless and eco card initiatives are among the new technologies on show at the annual Cartes & IDentification event in Paris which opens Monday.
16 November 2009
The Reserve Bank of India has set out aspirations for a top-to-toe overhaul of the country's payment systems, including plans for a new domestic card scheme, the creation of a mobile money network, and the introduction of a UK-styled Faster Payments system.
13 November 2009
The number of locations that accept contactless payments is set to increase by over 12.5 million by the end of 2013, according to a study by IMS Research
11 November 2009
Australia's Westpac has signed a five year, US$50 million contract with Hypercom for the provision and maintenance of thousands of payment terminals.
10 November 2009
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