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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
Barclaycard is inviting cardholders to pre-register for its new combined contactless Oyster travel and credit card.
09 July 2007
California-based start-up QSecure has launched its patented SmartStripe technology which incorporates dynamic cryptography on the magnetic stripe of a plastic payment card to generates a one-time authentication number for each purchase.
20 June 2007
E-payments outfit Verifone has won a contract to supply its payment terminals to China Postal Savings Bank (CPSB), the fifth largest bank in the country.
13 June 2007
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
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