0705 L'APACS a annoncé la décision de l'industrie bancaire britannique de déployer le paiement sans contact en Grande-Bretagne. La 1ère phase de ce déploiement concernera Londres à partir de septembre 2007. Le déploiement général est prévu pour 2008....

0705 With Americans carrying less cash around with them, U.S churches are having to accept donations by credit and debit card. Last year, Visa USA saw a 21 percent increase in the volume of payment card usage at religious organizations compared to 2005....

0705 U.S online sales including travel purchases are expected to hit US$259 billion this year, according to the 10th annual Shop.org study from Forrester Research. This represents an 18 percent increase from last year's total online sales, the U.S.-based...

0705 Visa Europe has launched SEPA HealthCheck, a service which is designed to give banks an objective view of the status of their SEPA compliance programs. The SEPA HealthCheck service costs 15,000 Euro (US$20,274), Jeremy Nicholds, Visa Europe's executive...

0705 La dépêche est tombée sur les sites d'agrégateurs de nouvelles financières (PaymentsNews, AGEFI, FINEXTRA), suite à une indiscrétion de Lafferty dans une note à ses clients : "EU banks discuss debit rival to MasterCard and Visa" «A group of Europe's...

0705 British consumers could be paying for low-cost transactions with just a wave of their debit or credit cards in as little as four months. Apacs, the country's payment association, says that 'contactless' plastic technology will be trialled in London...

0705 Après quelques jours passés au Japon, il est frappant de voir que les derniers business models innovants ne passent plus nécessairement par la case Internet. Les nouvelles générations de start-ups et de sites Web 2.0 plébiscitent le mobile comme...

0705 A quoi ressembleront nos téléphones mobiles en 2025 ? Et comment les utiliserons nous ? Sujet difficile, mais une chose est sûre cependant. Vous aurez sans doute oublié depuis longtemps que jadis, il ne vous servait seulement qu’à téléphoner. Et...

0705 China could provide itself with a rural payments system cheaply and quickly by taking advantage of an existing technology and infrastructure. A growing middle class and a decade of annual double-digit growth in retail sales have provided a powerful...

0705 The EU is one step closer to a single European payment area after the European Parliament backed plans for new rules to make cross-border payments with debit or credit cards across the bloc as easy as domestic payments. MEPs gathering in Strasbourg...