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Customers who shop at Tesco supermarkets and petrol stations will soon be able to use loyalty card points to pay for distance-learning courses run by the Open University.
06 February 2007
Person-to-person payments outfit PayPal says that it now has over 15 million account holders in the UK, representing over a third of the adult population.
02 November 2006
Ireland-based 3V Transaction Services has partnered with Visa, Irish Life and Permanent and cash acceptance network, payzone, to launch pay-as-you-go online shopping vouchers for UK consumers.
01 November 2006
US-based online person-to-person loan exchange Prosper says it has signed its 100,000th member and presided over $20 million in loan agreements in its first six months of operation.
UK insurance group Prudential has appointed HBOS retail banking head Ian Kerr as chief executive of its Internet banking operation Egg.
13 October 2006
European consumers are set to spend EUR75 billion by 2010 using reloadable pre-paid cards, which are targeted at customers that do not have a bank account.
11 August 2006
UK non-bank foreign exchange operator Travelex has sold its money transfer subsidiary to US-based Coinstar for $27 million in cash.
05 May 2006
Chelsea Footbal Club has launched a new Web portal that will provide its 3.8 million fans with information on savings and investments and access to independent financial advice.
02 May 2006
Dutch-Belgian banking group Fortis says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a financial services joint venture with The Irish Post Office, An Post.
13 April 2006
Citibank has inked a deal to provide free ATM services to customers at more than 5500 7-Eleven convenience stores across the US. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
04 April 2006
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is launching a new mobile phone-based credit card payment service called DCMX mini.
French smart card vendor Gemplus has launched a range of innovative and unconventional card designs, dubbed "plastic fantastic", which it says will enable card issuers to differentiate their offerings.
13 January 2006
UK supermarket bank Sainsbury's says the percentage of financial products sold via its Web site has more than doubled over the last two years to 40%.
14 December 2005
Australian retailer Woolworths Limited has applied for a special credit card licence with bank regulators in the country and plans to begin issuing its own branded cards from 2007, undermining an exclusive joint venture banking project established with Commonwealth Bank.
02 December 2005
Non-bank foreign exchange operator Travelex has sold its UK ATM business - comprising 1100 units - to US-based TRM Corporation for £43.4 million.
02 September 2005
The UK's Post Office has contracted with Bank of Ireland for the supply of 1000 "free of charge" cash machines which will be rolled out across its national branch network.
18 July 2005
Yahoo! Japan is teaming with Tokyo-based brokerage Nikko Cordial and Internet broker E*Trade Securities to deliver online stock trading services to its users.
01 June 2005
MasterCard Europe is partnering with the International Currency Exchange (ICE) to launch Cash2Go, a PIN secured, pre-paid Maestro debit card designed to replace paper-based travellers cheques.
04 May 2005
UK supermarket bank Sainsbury's says it now sells over a third (30%) of its financial products online, a significant increase from two years ago when fewer than one in five (18%) purchases were made via its Web site.
04 April 2005
Sainsbury's Bank, the financial services arm of the UK supermarket chain, is launching its first Internet only banking account.
05 January 2005
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