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Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has signed an agreement with US e-payments firm First Data to establish a Dublin-based merchant acquiring joint venture.
14 November 2007
The GSMA - an international trade group of mobile operators - says trials of NFC-based contactless mobile payment technology will be conducted by 12 telcos around the world over the next few months as a precursor to the launch of commercial services.
UK high street bank Halifax has begun issuing contactless debit cards featuring Visa payWave technology to around 25,000 customers in London.
12 November 2007
The popularity of mobile payments is set to rocket over the next few years, with the value of the market rising from $77.6 million in 2007 to $11.5 billion in 2011, according to a report from Juniper Research.
31 October 2007
Nigerian financial institutions Access Bank and United Bank of Africa (UBA) have chosen technology from IT security vendor Thales to secure migration to chip and PIN.
15 October 2007
Pan-European payments operator Equens is to merge its operations with Italian processor Seceti, under a deal that will create the largest volume payments processor in Europe.
27 September 2007
London newspaper The Evening Standard is launching a pre-paid contactless card that can be used as a substitute for cash when purchasing copies of the paper.
20 September 2007
Swiss group Telekurs has bought 3C Communications, a Luxembourg-based provider of card payments processing services, from Swedish telecoms operator Tele2 for SKr50 million in cash.
19 September 2007
Barclaycard today launched its combined contactless Oyster travel and debit card, OnePulse, in London.
10 September 2007
MasterCard has officially launched its contactless 'tap and go' payments system, PayPass, in the UK with an initial roll out in London's financial district.
04 September 2007
US-based Fair Isaac is teaming with US electronic payments network Nyce to extend its account-profiling technology to ATMs and point-of-sale terminals in order to determine the fraud risk associated with individual devices.
28 August 2007
British banking group Barclays is launching a Visa contactless payments card in the US in partnership with retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.
22 August 2007
US e-payments outfit Global Payments has won a five year agreement to provide card processing services to Sarajevo-based Postbank BH.
15 August 2007
Barclaycard has signed 1000 retail outlets for the launch of its new contactless three-in-one card, OnePulse, in London this Autumn.
14 August 2007
French eftpos vendor Ingenico and Paris-based technology firm Sagem Securite are in exclusive talks to merge their respective electronic payments businesses.
26 July 2007
US e-payments processor First Data has signed an agreement to acquire Check Forte Processamento de Dados, a provider of payment transaction processing services based in Brazil. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Barclays has become the latest bank to launch a re-loadable, PIN-protected travel money card that has been designed to replace paper travellers' cheques and cash.
Electronics giant Hitachi is teaming with Japanese card issuer JCB to develop a biometric payment system based on its finger vein authentication technology that can be used as an alternative to cards and cash at the point of sale.
23 July 2007
US e-payments vendor Verifone has sacked executive vice president William Atkinson, after discovering that he had been recruiting employees to join an un-named competitor.
19 July 2007
French eftpos vendor Ingenico says it has acquired Planet, its distributor in Turkey, for a total consideration of EUR26 million.
17 July 2007
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