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News/Eftpos
British banking group HSBC is launching a UK trial of Visa's contactless payment cards ahead of a public launch later this year.
25 May 2007
Payments professionals from across Europe will gather in Rome in early June for two days of intense networking and debate at the second annual EBAday forum, organised by Finextra Research in partnership with the Euro Banking Association.
Turskish interest-free banking operator Turkiye Finans Katilim Bankasi has contracted with VeriFone for the supply of 20,000 eftpos terminals and PIN pads.
24 April 2007
US micropayments company Peppercoin has been bought out by Chockstone, a provider of stored value loyalty services to merchants. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 April 2007
Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association will this year hold their annual European payments forum - EBAday 2007 - over two days in Rome in June, with the support of lead sponsors Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Banca Intesa Sanpaulo, LogicaCMG and Sap/Accenture.
05 April 2007
US e-payments firm First Data has signed an agreement to acquire Polcard, a merchant acquirer and card issuer based in Poland, in an all cash transaction worth $325 million.
30 March 2007
A trial of MasterCard's contactless EMV card payments technology at select McDonald's restaurants in Switzerland has been launched, with Christa Rigozzi, the current Miss Switzerland, making the first transaction.
India's Andhra Bank has teamed with Mumbai-based Financial Software and Systems (FSS) to enable Visa cardholders to pay for Kingfisher Airline tickets at any of its 500 ATMs.
26 March 2007
US mobile telco Cellular South is teaming with phone manufacturer Kyocera Wireless to launch a multi-city consumer trial of NFC-enabled wireless wallet technology.
23 March 2007
New Zealand-based eftpos vendor Cadmus Technology is reporting a NZ$1.5 million contract with Australia's Bendigo Bank (BBL).
19 March 2007
MasterCard has partnered with Taipei Fubon Bank and Taiwan Mobile to launch an NFC mobile phone payment pilot programme across the island.
08 February 2007
Researchers at Cambridge University are warning that fraudsters could steal Chip and PIN details while customers make purchases in stores.
06 February 2007
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have managed to hack a so-called tamper resistant Chip and PIN terminal and get it to play Tetris.
05 January 2007
MasterCard has unveiled a new point-of-sale service for reloading pre-paid cards at merchant locations.
19 December 2006
In an effort to comply with new regulations governing the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), the Sparda banking group in Germany is to ditch the domestic debit ec (electronic cash) scheme in favour of using MasterCard's Maestro marque for both national and international debit card payments.
07 December 2006
The UK's new Faster Payments Service (FPS) creates a strong business case for the immediate introduction of multi-factor authentication methods for transactions, says Thales e-Security.
06 December 2006
More than 67 million Americans have used a credit or debit card for a purchase of less than $5 in the past 30 days, according to research conducted by Ipsos Insight and micropayments outfit Peppercoin.
29 November 2006
Citibank Singapore is using fingerprint authentication technology from San Francisco-based Pay By Touch to launch a cardless payment service for credit card transactions.
10 November 2006
UK payments body Apacs is liaising with banks, card schemes, retailers and systems vendors on the introduction of an authentication system for use in both online and telephone shopping, as the latest fraud figures show rising levels of CNP (card not present) crime.
07 November 2006
Las Vegas-based gaming payments outfit Global Cash Access has settled an ATM patents dispute with Fidelity National Information Services and US Bank.
01 September 2006
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