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Verdict Staff

Predictions 2013: Pat Carroll, chief executive, ValidSoft

In 2012, we have seen an increasing number of sophisticated attacks made on a range of organisations in an attempt to capture consumer information. In 2013 we should not only expect such attacks to escalate in terms of frequency and significance, but for traditional defence technologies to provide little resistance.

Predictions 2013: Alan Moss, Verifone vice president of marketing for the Western Europe, Middle East and Africa region

We’re getting to a tipping point on contactless acceptance in the main European markets. We’ll see that starting to move into the NFC area, which will probably be the initial NFC proper deployments. There will be an increased take up of tablet and iPad retailing and certainly we see a lot of major retailers who now have mobile POS plans and are looking to implement them.

Predictions 2013: Matt Calman – Mobey Forum board member and senior vice president and research and development (R&D) executive at Bank of America and Amir Tabakovic – Mobey Forum board member and head of market development at PostFinance

“Paying in-store with smartphones will gain significant momentum through mediums such as near field communication (NFC) mobile contactless, visual and plastic tags, but it will take time to see which mode will become ubiquitous.

First American Payment Systems partners with IBAT

First American Payment Systems has entered into a new partnership with the Independent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT), in a bid to meet the marketing, customer service and security needs of Texas community banks.

Bremer Bank to expand into mobile banking, payments with Mobiliti from Fiserv

Bremer Bank, an $8.1 billion bank headquartered in Minnesota, has selected Mobiliti as its mobile banking, payments and alerting engine.

Trust One Payment Services purchased by Charge Payment

Trust One Payment Services, Inc. has been purchased by Charge Payment, a newly formed company based in Nashville, Tennessee.

SIX Payment Services Ltd goes live with the Clear2Pay

Clear2Pay, the international technology provider has announced that European acquiring and issuing processor SIX Payment Services (SIX), has selected Clear2Pay’s CBK solution to support its chargeback business and processes.

FutureCard progresses as independent entity following split from ENPI Group

FutureCard- the UAE-based expert in the design, manufacture and customisation of all types of cards from basic plastic to the most advanced smart card has established itself as a separate entity form Emirates National Factory for Plastic Industries L.L.C. (ENPI)- a manufacturer of plastic packaging.

QNB accepts China UnionPay cards on its ATMs within Qatar

QNB, a financial institution in the State of Qatar and the MENA region, continues expanding its acceptance of China UnionPay cards (CUP) on all QNB POS and now ATMs across Qatar.

Bottomline Technologies releases new version of C-Series corporate payments platform

Bottomline Technologies, a provider of cloud-based payment, invoice and banking solutions, today announced general availability of its latest C-Series release for corporate payments and cash management.