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0707 Insurance companies Aviva, AXA, Groupama-GAN and MMA have launched the pilot version of new card "Duo", which will replace a paper document allowing people to transfer the payment of their medications in pharmacies to their insurance companies, so-called...

0706 Visa is targeting thousands of New York City taxis with Visa payWave contactless card readers. In a program launched with taxi technology company Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT), ViVOtech readers are being installed in the back of taxis, allowing...

0706 Banque Accord et Sencillo SAS lancent le 11 juin en France Flouss.com, première carte internationalede transfert d’argent 100% électronique. Yassine, 30 ans : "Je vais envoyer une carte Flouss.com au pays... ma famille pourra compter sur moi." Avant...

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 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 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...

0705 The death of the cheque moved a step closer yesterday after a poll by Visa UK found cheque payments accounted for just 2% of all retail turnover in 2006. The poll of 800 people also found just 6% of shoppers paid for their goods by cheque, while...