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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
ATM manufacturer Wincor Nixdorf has won a contract to supply 532 cash machines to the Taiwan Post Office (TPO).
22 November 2004
UK retailer Tesco is to move into mortgage sales and extend its online banking capabilities to benefit from cross-sales and low customer acquisition costs from its popular home shopping service.
04 November 2004
Germany's NCS has received an electronic money licence from the country's Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervision (BaFin) allowing it to operate as a 'mobile payments bank' for payments and fund transfer services executed over wireless handsets.
29 October 2004
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has stepped up its challenge to the UK banking industry with the launch of a new debit card-based system for capturing customer deposits at the check-out.
12 October 2004
Barclaycard is to take over the running of the House of Fraser store card business under a joint venture partnership with the upscale retailer.
29 September 2004
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