2062 results about this entity
Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 21 Aug 2025
News
Visa is working with transport authorities in Los Angeles on a contactless payments trial that will enable customers to pay for journeys on the city's trains, subway and buses by tapping their cards against specially equipped terminals.
04 November 2008
MasterCard has launched a facility for banks to install PayPass contactless payments functionality onto customers' mobile phones over the air.
30 October 2008
After reaching a $2.75 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard, Discover Financial Services says it is in "dispute" with Morgan Stanley over the proportion of the money it should hand over to its former owner.
28 October 2008
MasterCard is teaming with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Stagecoach to trial a combined contactless bank and transit card in the UK city of Liverpool.
21 October 2008
Discover Financial Services has settled a long running anti-trust lawsuit that accused rivals MasterCard and Visa of blocking access to the bank-issued card market in the US.
14 October 2008
Citi and Obopay have launched a US-wide person-to-person (P2P) mobile payments pilot for the bank's customers.
Hundreds of Chip and PIN terminals in shops and supermarkets across Europe have been rigged by criminals and used to steal shoppers' card details, according to US national counter-intelligence executive Joel Brenner.
13 October 2008
Nearly two thirds of all US consumer payments are now made electronically as Americans increasingly turn away from cash and cheques, according to research from BAI and Hitachi Consulting.
06 October 2008
Cardholder take-up of the MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa online authentication services has increased by 600% over the past two years, according to stats from UK payments group Apacs.
22 September 2008
Banks across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are sending customers text messages urging them to change their PIN numbers following a surge in fraudulent ATM withdrawals made abroad.
11 September 2008
Canada's national payments association Interac is in talks with the country's competition bureau over plans to become a for-profit organisation, according to local newspaper the Globe and Mail.
08 September 2008
EU authorities have called on banks to push ahead with plans to introduce a pan-European direct debit payments system, even if interchange fees are initially charged for cross-border transactions.
04 September 2008
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