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limonetik
0712 Limonetik est une start-up proposant un moyen de paiement sur Internet Limonetik a développé une innovation technologique qui permet à ce nouveau moyen de paiement d'être valable sur n'importe quelle enseigne de e-commerce. Concrètement, un site...
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ABN Amro, VocaLink In Global Payments Services Deal
0712 UK-based ACH operator VocaLink is offering banks and their corporate clients SEPA-compliant global payments services through ABN Amro's global network. In July 2007, VocaLink set up VocaLink €CSM, a pan-European clearing system for SEPA payments....
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Hypercom to buy Thales' card payments business; appoints new CEO
0712 Payments technology vendor Hypercom has begun talks with Thales to acquire its e-Transactions business division for $120 million plus an additional performance related earn-out of up to $30 million. Separately, Hypercom has made several new board...
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Consumers Ready for Cashless Society?
0712 Pour les consommateurs d'étude surtout !!! The majority of consumers surveyed in 13 countries on behalf of MasterCard believe that one day there will be a cashless society. The survey found that globally consumers agree that they do not like to carry...
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Indian M-Payments Firm Targets U.S. Market
0712 intéressant de voir l'offre indienne là où onne l'attendait pas India's PayMate says it plans to enter the North American mobile payments market. PayMate will offer m-payment services to U.S. unbanked consumers as well as cellphone-based cross-border...
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Barclaycard to launch public mobile payments trial
0711 Barclaycard is to use the forthcoming pilot of the mobile Oyster transit scheme in London to launch a trial of mobile payments technology. The bank says it will credit 225 of the 500 phones to be used in the Oyster pilot with £200 worth of non-reloadable...
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UK Firm, Visa Team on Mobile Prepaid Shopping Vouchers
0711 Monitise, a UK mobile banking and payments company, has teamed up with Visa Europe to develop a mobile prepaid shopping voucher service. A Visa spokesperson tells ePaynews that Monitise and Visa Europe are looking for commitments from the card scheme’s...
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LCL launches Indépendance the first Internet-reloadable prepaid Carte Bleue Visa card
0711 LCL is launching Indépendance , its first Internet-reloadable prepaid card aimed at 12-17-year-olds. The bank is responding to strong demand from teens and their parents by offering a reloadable prepaid card that allows holders to obtain, spend and...
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Unemployment Agency in U.S. Shifts Benefits to Prepaid Cards
0711 Job Service North Dakota is to make unemployment insurance benefit payments electronically to debit cards carried by claimants, starting November 2007. The government agency, which administers unemployment insurance benefit in North Dakota, says...
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DES CARTES À PUCE POUR PROSTITUÉES
0710 Décidemment la carte à puce va se nicher partout. La Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates vient d’offrir des cartes à puce à 500 prostituées de la ville de Mysore en Inde. La carte permet d’obtenir des réductions dans des magasins et des hôtels et d’attribuer...
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PayPal To Launch Early-Warning System
0710 A noter hors l'info : l'intéret d'une participation à l'eBay Live conference pendant une mission d'étude par exemple.... PayPal is set to roll out a risk reduction program for eBay sellers, in the U.S and Canada over the next few months. The payments...
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Diebold ATMs to Dispense Prepaid Cards
0710 Diebold ATMs will be dispensing prepaid cards using technology from Better ATM Services (BATM). Mesa, Arizona-based BATM's technology allows prepaid cards to be dispensed from existing ATM cassettes that are normally used to dispense bank notes....
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Euro Banks Said Not Ready for SEPA
0710 European bankers are pessimistic about their ability to meet the January 1, 2008 deadline for first-stage implementation of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area), according to a Finextra survey. Also, the vast majority of banks do not expect their corporate...
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Credit Card Brands Challenged in Online Commerce
0710 The dominance of network-branded credit card payments for U.S online transactions is set to decrease as consumers embrace the greater perceived security and convenience of alternative payment methods forms, Javelin Strategy & Research says. Alternative...
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France: MACSF and Banque Accord launch co-branded card
0710 French mutual insurance group MACSF and Banque Accord, the bank of the Auchan hypermarket chain, have launched co-branded credit card. The card offers cash back. At the end of the year, MACSF gives back 1% of total expenditure. The cash back offer...
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AOL Founder Launches Payments Firm
0709 AOL co-founder Steve Case has launched a payments company called Revolution Money which offers a free, PayPal-like money transfer service and a credit card with a low merchant fee. The company is backed by US$50 million in venture capital funding...
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VPay
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...
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HSBC Tightens Online Banking Security
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...
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ECB Says Innovators to Gain From SEPA
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...
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China Card System Hits Half-Year Milestone
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...
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PayPal Offers Deferred Payment Option
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....
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USA : Visa mise sur le paiement mobile
0707 Le téléphone mobile considéré comme le meilleur outil de paiement électronique. Pour accélérer la migration vers le paiement mobile et marquer sa volonté de développer ce mode de paiement, Visa vient d'annoncer une prise de participation dans dotMobi,...
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motorola et le paiement sur mobile
0707 Motorola rejoint l'intiative sur les paiements mobiles : http://www.huliq.com/24686/motorola-joins-gsma-pay-buy-mobile-initiative . "The GSM Association appears to be getting more industry support for its mobile payment initiative. Announced at the...
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Le paiement sur mobile décolle... au japon
0707 NTT DoCoMo et McDonald's mettent en place une plateforme de paiement mobile et de marketing. "NTT DoCoMo and McDonald's Japan will jointly start an e-marketing initiative based on DoCoMo Osaifu-Keitai e-wallet services. Both companies agreed to establish...
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Pay Fair
0707 résume du projet. 1. Pay Fair est un nouveau schéma de cartes de débit, qui adoptera les nouveaux standards européens (EMV, SCF, Chip & PIN, ...). Il jouit d’un grand enthousiasme et large soutien auprès des grands distributeurs, en raison de son...