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News/Eftpos
UK bank Abbey is working to reverse a processing error that led to thousands of customers being mistakenly billed twice for the same Visa debit card transactions.
01 September 2006
Ingenico UK and US-based Nexus Software have developed a Chip and PIN-basesd authentication system for use in retail bank branch environments.
29 August 2006
Morgan Stanley unit Discover has inked a deal with Japanese card issuer JCB that will allow its US customers to use their cards to pay for purchases made in Japan.
23 August 2006
US e-payments technology vendor Verifone is buying the payment systems business of Dublin-based Trintech in an all cash transaction worth $12.1 million.
14 August 2006
The Bank of Queensland (BoQ) has signed a six year deal worth A$14.4 million with Australian e-payments vendor Keycorp for the upgrade and management of its entire fleet of eftpos terminals.
26 July 2006
French eftpos vendors Ingenico and Moneyline have signed an agreement to merge their respective operations.
30 June 2006
Police in Montreal have arrested nine people - including a bank call centre employee - that allegedly used rigged payment terminals to skim debit cards and steal customers' PINs.
23 June 2006
Eftpos vendor Ingenico has won a £1 million contract to supply mobile payment terminals and PIN pads to the Norwegian Post Office.
22 June 2006
German card processor Zentraler Kreditausschuss (ZKA) is aiming to create a 'Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes' with partners in Portugal, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands in an effort to interlink national debit card systems to process cross-border transactions.
24 May 2006
A new chip and PIN security device capable of protecting cardholders from "shoulder surfing" thieves at the cash till is being piloted by UK health and beauty retailer Boots.
23 May 2006
The UK banking industry's massive investment in Chip & PIN payment cards has been brought into question after fraudsters stole more than £1 million from customers by implanting skimming devices in retailer PIN pads.
08 May 2006
The annual number of electronic payment transactions, currently at approximately 210 billion worldwide, is expected to double by the end of the decade, according to research released by ACI Worldwide.
04 May 2006
Transport for London (TfL) has abandoned initial plans to add contactless payments functionality to its Oyster smart card after failing to agree terms with technical and financial partners.
02 May 2006
Visa USA is warning that two versions of Fujitsu's point-of-sale software may inadvertantly store customer data, including PIN numbers, during debit card transactions.
21 March 2006
Bank-owned Norwegian payments processor BBS is acquiring the Swedish business of eftpos manufacturer Ingenico. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 March 2006
US e-payments technology vendor Verifone has won a contract to supply 50,000 payment terminals to ICICI Bank, the largest private sector bank in India.
27 February 2006
The European Central Bank has waded into the debate on bank progress towards a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), clarifying deadlines and urging more action on standards, security, same-day processing and e-invoicing.
17 February 2006
Royal Bank of Scotland is to road-test MasterCard's PayPass contactless cards in the UK as an alternative to low-value cash payments.
08 February 2006
Card association Visa is homing in on a $1.2 trillion cash replacement opportunity as it talks up the rapid uptake of contactless payment cards by US retailers, banks and consumers.
02 February 2006
Almost one-in-four consumers now feel more exposed and vulnerable when making a purchase following the introduction of PINs in place of signatures at the point-of-sale in the UK, according to research from polling organisation Ipso Mori.
01 February 2006
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