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Ahead of Christmas, Visa Europe has launched a Web portal offering deals and discounts from participating retailers to its UK cardholders.
12 December 2011
Glaswegians received an early Christmas gift on Friday when a Clydesdale Bank ATM began dispensing twice as much cash as requested.
Russian cyber-criminals have hacked into the computer systems of US wholesale group Restaurant Depot and stolen hundreds of thousands of credit and debit card details.
The war of words between retailers and banks over Durbin interchange fee amendments in the US has stepped up a gear as the Electronic Payments Coalition releases research which indicates that a majority of merchants are pocketing savings from fee cuts rather than passing them on to customers as promised.
09 December 2011
The SaveMart supermarket chain in the US is reporting escalating incidences of fraud on customer bank cards after the discovery of data recording equipment on eftpos terminals at 23 Lucky supermarkets.
07 December 2011
UK card design outfit Serverside has won the second dismissal in a patent infringement suit brought against 15 US credit unions and technology suppliers.
UK payments processor VocaLink has apppointed David Yates from Western Union as its new chief executive, taking over from Marion King who steps down after nine years at the helm.
06 December 2011
Green Dot, the US prepaid card outfit with designs on entering the retail banking market, has hired Visa's head of global development John MacIlwaine as it new Chief Information Officer.
05 December 2011
PayPal has overtaken credit cards as a preferred form of payment for consumers shopping on the Web, according to a survey of global shopping habits conducted by KPMG.
Dickson Chu, the high profile and often outspoken head of digital and mobile networks at Citi, has quit the bank to join daily deals outfit LivingSocial.
02 December 2011
Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.
01 December 2011
MasterCard has made a strategic investment in US mobile money outfit mFoundry, leading a funding round that also includes Intel Capital, Fidelity Information Services and Motorola Mobility.
Online collective Anonymous has teamed up with hacker group TeaMp0isoN on its latest campaign, OpRobinHood; using stolen credit card details to "donate" to the "99%".
30 November 2011
MasterCard has teamed up with manufacturer Laks and issuer Vincento to launch a wristwatch featuring PayPass contactless payments technology.
29 November 2011
PayPal says that 2016 will mark the tipping point for mobile payments in the UK, when consumers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for everyday items on the high street rather than cash, cheques or cards.
25 November 2011
US pre-paid card outfit Green Dot has been given the all clear by regulators to buy Bonneville, a small Utah-based bank.
24 November 2011
US merchant lobby groups have filed a suit against the Federal Reserve over allegations that the US central bank caved in to bank demands to raise the cap on debit fees by including expenses that were not permissible under law.
23 November 2011
Barclays says it will roll out 'talking ATMs' in the UK next year, backing the Royal National Institute of Blind People's Make Money Talk campaign.
UK banks are participating in a war games-style market exercise to test their responses to a concerted cyber attack and the threats posed to their business by traffic gridlock at the 2012 Olympics.
22 November 2011
US financial institutions have been warned of the potential for rising fraud rates from the expansion of remote deposit capture technology to the retail and unbanked sector.
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