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Swiss group Telekurs has bought 3C Communications, a Luxembourg-based provider of card payments processing services, from Swedish telecoms operator Tele2 for SKr50 million in cash.
19 September 2007
Barclaycard today launched its combined contactless Oyster travel and debit card, OnePulse, in London.
10 September 2007
MasterCard has officially launched its contactless 'tap and go' payments system, PayPass, in the UK with an initial roll out in London's financial district.
04 September 2007
US-based Fair Isaac is teaming with US electronic payments network Nyce to extend its account-profiling technology to ATMs and point-of-sale terminals in order to determine the fraud risk associated with individual devices.
28 August 2007
British banking group Barclays is launching a Visa contactless payments card in the US in partnership with retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.
22 August 2007
US e-payments outfit Global Payments has won a five year agreement to provide card processing services to Sarajevo-based Postbank BH.
15 August 2007
Barclaycard has signed 1000 retail outlets for the launch of its new contactless three-in-one card, OnePulse, in London this Autumn.
14 August 2007
French eftpos vendor Ingenico and Paris-based technology firm Sagem Securite are in exclusive talks to merge their respective electronic payments businesses.
26 July 2007
US e-payments processor First Data has signed an agreement to acquire Check Forte Processamento de Dados, a provider of payment transaction processing services based in Brazil. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Barclays has become the latest bank to launch a re-loadable, PIN-protected travel money card that has been designed to replace paper travellers' cheques and cash.
Electronics giant Hitachi is teaming with Japanese card issuer JCB to develop a biometric payment system based on its finger vein authentication technology that can be used as an alternative to cards and cash at the point of sale.
23 July 2007
US e-payments vendor Verifone has sacked executive vice president William Atkinson, after discovering that he had been recruiting employees to join an un-named competitor.
19 July 2007
French eftpos vendor Ingenico says it has acquired Planet, its distributor in Turkey, for a total consideration of EUR26 million.
17 July 2007
Barclaycard is inviting cardholders to pre-register for its new combined contactless Oyster travel and credit card.
09 July 2007
California-based start-up QSecure has launched its patented SmartStripe technology which incorporates dynamic cryptography on the magnetic stripe of a plastic payment card to generates a one-time authentication number for each purchase.
20 June 2007
E-payments outfit Verifone has won a contract to supply its payment terminals to China Postal Savings Bank (CPSB), the fifth largest bank in the country.
13 June 2007
British banking group HSBC is launching a UK trial of Visa's contactless payment cards ahead of a public launch later this year.
25 May 2007
Payments professionals from across Europe will gather in Rome in early June for two days of intense networking and debate at the second annual EBAday forum, organised by Finextra Research in partnership with the Euro Banking Association.
Turskish interest-free banking operator Turkiye Finans Katilim Bankasi has contracted with VeriFone for the supply of 20,000 eftpos terminals and PIN pads.
24 April 2007
US micropayments company Peppercoin has been bought out by Chockstone, a provider of stored value loyalty services to merchants. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 April 2007
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