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EBay is postponing plans to force its Australian customers to use the PayPal service following the intervention of the country's competition watchdog, but says it will challenge moves to block its new payments policy.
16 June 2008
A Scottish court has heard how a woman managed to dupe a cashier into accepting a hand-made fake £20 note that stated it was from the 'Santa Christmas Bank'.
13 June 2008
MasterCard is suspending the interchange fees it charges for cross-border credit and debit transactions in Europe in order to comply with an EC ruling and avoid heavy daily penalties.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has moved to scuttle plans by eBay to force customers to use the PayPal service to make payments on its online auction site.
12 June 2008
Discover Financial Services is seeking $6 billion in damages in a long running anti-trust lawsuit that accuses credit card rivals MasterCard and Visa of blocking its access to the bank-issued card market in the US.
10 June 2008
MasterCard and Visa have come under more pressure over interchange fees after US senator Dick Durbin introduced a bill that would give retailers and merchants the power to negotiate to reduce charges for card transactions.
06 June 2008
Newly-merged market operator Nasdaq OMX has appointed Credit Suisse executive Steve Matthews as chief legal and compliance officer of its new pan-European market for blue chips.
30 May 2008
State Street Corporation says computer equipment containing personal data belonging to staff and customers of its recently acquired Investors Bank & Trust (IBT) unit has been stolen.
29 May 2008
Dutch banking group ING and Paris-listed IT services firm Atos Origin are teaming up to provide Sepa-compliant payment processing services to banks and corporations in Europe.
A California man has been charged with multiple counts of fraud for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 from online brokerages by opening thousands of accounts using the names of cartoon characters.
Glitches with the PayPal service has left merchants unable to accept some international payments for almost two weeks. The bug has also prevented merchants from charging some customers for handling costs.
28 May 2008
The European Central Bank (ECB) is calling on central securities depositories (CSDs) to sign up to Target2-Securities (TS2), its proposed integrated securities settlement system in the euro zone.
23 May 2008
Australia's St George Bank is implementing anti-money laundering and compliance software from Dublin-based Norkom Technologies.
US authorities have charged 38 members of an international criminal gang that allegedly used spam e-mails to steal bank account details and passwords from thousands of customers.
As the interchange debate heats up in the US, banks and credit card networks have seized upon a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that claims a reduction in interchange fees would not necessarily benefit customers.
16 May 2008
US market operator IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has received regulatory approval to establish its own clearing operation in London.
13 May 2008
Less than a month after reporting the thefts of four laptops containing unencrypted customer data, Bank of Ireland (BoI) says it is investigating claims that another computer containing confidential information was stolen back in 2001.
Some credit firms are flouting advertising rules when using social networking site Facebook to target young people with cheap loans, says UK debt charity Credit Action.
12 May 2008
Granville Associates, a UK provider of business intelligence (BI) software to the banking sector, has gone into administration.
02 May 2008
UK banking giant HSBC has called in police to investigate an alleged attempted EUR90 million fraud at its securities services division, which is rumoured to have been perpetrated by operations staff at the bank.
01 May 2008
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