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EU courts open hearing into MasterCard fees

EU courts open hearing into MasterCard fees

MasterCard's long-running legal challenge against the European Commission's 2007 decision on the company's cross-border consumer interchange fees has been aired at the EU General Law Cout in Luxembourg, with the card scheme declaring that "the future direction of European payments is stake".

11 July 2011

Visa shuts down WikiLeaks payments workaround

Visa shuts down WikiLeaks payments workaround

Visa has succeeded in shutting down a workaround that briefly enabled the re-instatement of credit card payments to whistle-blowing Website WikiLeaks.

08 July 2011

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard

WikiLeaks has announced plans to sue Visa and MasterCard over their refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing service.

04 July 2011

Charges laid over Aussie banknote printing bribery

Charges laid over Aussie banknote printing bribery

Aussie police have charged Securency International, Note Printing Australia (NPA) and six individuals with bribing public officials in foreign countries to help win contracts.

01 July 2011

ACH liability up for grabs as court finds against bank in second US cyber-heist suit

ACH liability up for grabs as court finds against bank in second US cyber-heist suit

A Michigan court has found in favour of Experi-Metal in its $560,000 cyber-heist suit against Comerica Bank, contradicting a ruling last week in a separate small business ACH fraud case which came down on the side of the bank.

17 June 2011

Lederman loses LSE employment case

Lederman loses LSE employment case

The London Stock Exchange has won a claim for damages brought against it by former Turquoise boss Eli Lederman.

15 June 2011

Spain arrests Anonymous suspects linked to bank attacks

Spain arrests Anonymous suspects linked to bank attacks

Spanish police have arrested three suspected members of online collective Anonymous, accusing them of involvement in cyber-attacks on Sony, BBVA and Bankia, among others.

10 June 2011

US judge backs bank against customer who sued over hack

US judge backs bank against customer who sued over hack

A US judge magistrate has ruled that a bank is not responsible for the loss of around $345,000 from a business customer account following a cyber-attack.

08 June 2011

Madoff payroll manager pleads guilty

Madoff payroll manager pleads guilty

A former senior employee of Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff has admitted doctoring documents to deceive auditors, faking payroll records and lying to a bank to get a loan.

07 June 2011

BofA worker arrested over customer data theft

BofA worker arrested over customer data theft

A former Bank of America worker accused of stealing customer data and selling it on to crooks may have cost the firm at least $10 million.

27 May 2011

PayPal sues Google and Bedier over m-payment trade secrets

PayPal sues Google and Bedier over m-payment trade secrets

On the day Google unveiled its much anticipated mobile wallet, PayPal has filed a lawsuit against the search engine giant and two former staffers, accusing them of "misappropriating" m-payment-related trade secrets.

27 May 2011

Ex-BofA IT worker jailed for ATM hack

Ex-BofA IT worker jailed for ATM hack

A former Bank of America computer programmer who planted malware on the firm's ATM systems, enabling him to make fraudulent withdrawals, has been jailed for 27 months.

24 May 2011

Financial IT consultancy boss wins £6m over botched facelift

Financial IT consultancy boss wins £6m over botched facelift

A British woman has been awarded nearly £6.2 million in damages after a botched facelift which contributed to the collapse of her financial and IT consultancy business.

24 May 2011

Viveo workers win Temenos case

Viveo workers win Temenos case

A group of Viveo staffers have won a court victory over redundancies arising from the French vendor's acquisition by Temenos.

16 May 2011

US sues to block VeriFone's Hypercom takeover

US sues to block VeriFone's Hypercom takeover

The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit in a bid to block POS terminal vendor VeriFone's planned $485 million acquisition of rival Hypercom.

13 May 2011

BOX sues CBOE, ISE and Nasdaq OMX for patent infringement

BOX sues CBOE, ISE and Nasdaq OMX for patent infringement

The Boston Options Exchange (BOX) has filed a lawsuit against three bigger rivals, accusing them of infringing its price improvement processor patent.

11 May 2011

Hacker pleads guilty over $36m card fraud

Hacker pleads guilty over $36m card fraud

A US man has admitted trafficking hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers that resulted in the loss of more than $36 million.

26 April 2011

Fed Reserve computer hacker pleads guilty

Fed Reserve computer hacker pleads guilty

A Malaysian man has pleaded guilty to possessing stolen payment card numbers and admitted hacking into the Federal Reserve's computer network.

15 April 2011

Ex-AllianceBernstein man charged with stealing FIX software

Ex-AllianceBernstein man charged with stealing FIX software

A former AllianceBernstein employee has been charged with stealing software used to send and receive FIX messages from the investment firm.

14 April 2011

Bank worker jailed for £3.2m tax fraud

Bank worker jailed for £3.2m tax fraud

A former Barclays high street banker and an illegal immigrant have been jailed for a £3.2 million self assessment tax fraud.

11 April 2011