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Verdict Staff
Orange, Barclaycard launch second NFC phone
Orange and Barclaycard are to launch the second handset in their Quick Tap range. The Samsung Wave 578 has NFC capabilities allowing users to make contactless payments for purchases of up to £15 conversion into dollars at merchants such as EAT, Subway and McDonalds.
Liaison, ExoIS to provide PCI DSS compliant solutions
Liaison Technologies has partnered with ExoIS to offer PCI DSS-compliant services to companies. Liaison Technologies is a provider of cloud-based integration and data management services.
Discover 9M11 net income soars 400%
Discover Financial Services has announced a net income of $1.7bn for the nine months to end-August compared with just $415m for the same period last year.
Euronet buys cadooz
Euronet Worldwide has acquired German incentive company cadooz from Palamon Capital Partners.
Card Customisation: What’s the point?
In a high-tech world where individualised products and services are the norm, the financial services sector, too, is slowly but steadily adopting a more personalised approach to attract and retain customers.
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NCR tackles ATM crime
NCR is rolling out a new ATM and branch security solution for financial institutions across Europe.
SIBOS news: Analysis of cumulative impact of regulations required
The cumulative impact of different regulatory and industry initiatives need to be properly assessed by banks, said Capgemini, whose World Payments Report 2011 has been officially launched at Sibos Christophe Vergne, leader of the consultancys Cards & Payments Center of Excellence, says that initiatives like Basel III, Dodd Frank, SEPA at Payment Services Directive should not be acted on in isolation. Talking to Cards and Electronic Payments International, Vergne said that work needs to be done to analyse the ways in which these initiatives interact and impact one another.
Contactless cards to increase electronic pick-pocketing
The roll-out of contactless cards by banks will increase the risk of fraud from electronic pick-pocketing, according to Identity Stronghold.
Banks to dominate m-payment space: Fiserv
Banks may indeed become the dominant leaders in the mobile payments space, a study by Fiserv found.
Visa grants license to Google
.Visa has granted Google a global license to use its NFC-based payment technology payWave.