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Sun Microsystems is in negotiations with electronic stock exchange operator Archipelago to launch a platform to buy and sell blocks of computing power.
03 February 2005
Shares in UK online bank Egg have leapt eight per cent amid renewed speculation about a fresh takeover bid.
02 February 2005
A faulty cash machine owned by Fortis Bank in Rotterdam allowed 20 homeless social security recipients to withdraw EUR100,000.
Half of all ATMs in the UK will soon charge customers for withdrawing cash, according to HBOS chief executive James Crosby, who was speaking at the Treasury Select Committee's investigation into cash machine charges.
The number of Canadian consumers who use Internet banking services appears to have reached a plateau, according to a study by Toronto-based market research company TNS Canadian Facts.
01 February 2005
The UK's payments association Apacs says debit and credit card transactions hit a record high in December, with an average of 220 transactions taking place per second.
The US Federal Reserve Board says a Web-based central data respository (CDR) for financial bank data will be established in October, a year later than originally planned.
UK bank Abbey is offering its customers the chance to personalise their plastic payment cards with their own photographs or images.
31 January 2005
Mike Harris, founder and former chief executive of UK online bank Egg, is stepping down from the company's board and his present role as executive vice chairman in May.
UK electronic payments firm earthport says it has abandoned plans to acquire former Internet security company Baltimore Technologies.
UK retail banking software house Intelligent Environments has raised £297,181 before expenses in a placing of nearly seven million new ordinary shares of one pence each.
The European market for technology acquisitions staged a comeback in 2004 following a three-year downturn in activity, according to research from UK corporate finance house Regent Associates.
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