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0709 Les systèmes de paire à paire consomment de la bande passante et mettent à contribution les machines de leurs utilisateurs. Monétiser ces échanges pourrait faire naître un nouveau type de commerce électronique. Les réseaux peer to peer créent la...

0709 Visa Europe says commitments to issue V PAY, its SEPA-compliant European chip-and-PIN debit card, have reached 17 million cards. "Four million European merchants and a quarter of a million ATMs are now ready to accept V PAY and card issuance has...

0709 HSBC's UK subsidiary is developing an alternative form of online banking security authentication, because of its concerns about two-factor authentication. UK payments association APACS wants banks to use two-factor authentication involving smart...

0708 Banks who embrace new technologies, create innovative businesses and provide additional services are likely to gain most from SEPA, says a report from the European Central Bank (ECB). The August 2007 report by Heiko Schmiedel, “The Economic Impact...

0708 Les échanges de fichiers pourraient devenir une monnaie d'échange. Ils rejoignent ainsi les permis de polluer, les blessures au combat virtuel et les autres innovations en terme de concepts monnayables. La création de monnaie d'échange est un événement...

0708 Credit card companies had to write off 4.58% of credit card bill payments as uncollectable in the first six months of 2007. That is up almost 30% on the first half of 2006. There was also an increase in late payments and the quarterly payment rate...

0708 China UnionPay (CUP) issued 10.21 million credit cards in the first six months of this year in China, up nearly 200 percent on the same period of 2006. Chinese newswire Xinhua reports that the national bankcard scheme also issued 127 million debit...

0708 Sainsbury's has become the latest UK retailer to say that it will no longer accept payment by cheque. The supermarket group's stores have switched to plastic or cash only, on the grounds that few people now use cheques and that they cost too much...

0708 Londres devrait accueillir en septembre une nouvelle carte de paiement sans contact. Selon ABI Research, cette initiative inaugure une adoption massive de la technologie dans le secteur bancaire sur le Vieux Continent. "L'Europe est loin derrière...

0708 PayPal has launched PayPal Pay Later, a service that allows customers to defer payment for their online purchases. The service, which is already up-and-running in the U.S., is offered through a partnership with Stamford, Connecticut-based GE Money....