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Visa vacates Global Payments
April 1, 2012
According to a news item posted by wsj.com at 7:39 p.m. EST on Sunday, April 1, Visa has removed Global Payments from its list of companies considered to be…
read nowMonday press conference will address Global Payments data breach
April 1, 2012
Global Payments announced it will hold a live press conference Monday, April 2 at 8 AM EDT to answer questions about a data breach the company experienced…
read nowGlobal Payments Inc. confirms 'massive' data breach
March 30, 2012
Global Payments confirmed late this afternoon that "card data may have been accessed," in a hacking episode in early March, said CNN in a breaking news report.
read nowIndonesian telecom, bank team up on mobile wallet
March 30, 2012
Indonesia's largest telecom, PT Telkomsel, and state lender Bank Negara Indonesia have created a partnership to allow BNI account holders top up their…
read nowWith friends like these …
March 30, 2012
When two men assisted him off a London bus after he had an epileptic fit, Hugh Sach of Winchester, England, thought he'd met two Good Samaritans, said a report…
read nowATMIA committee will serve as "collective industry voice" on EMV
March 30, 2012
The ATM Industry Association has announced that it will form a new committee to monitor developments regarding EMV for the U.S. market.
read nowIAD places Scandinavia's biggest ATM order in a decade
March 30, 2012
Sweden's Bankomat AB, which operates ATM networks for five of the country's leading banks, has inked a three-year framework agreement with Wincor Nixdorf, the…
read nowATM scam tops NZ$1 million in losses
March 30, 2012
New Zealand bank ANZ National now estimates that approximately $1 million (US$820,000) has been stolen in a skimming case that just seems to keep expanding.
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Webinar explores opportunities for slashing cash-handling costs
Cash won't be going away anytime soon, but a fair amount of the handling costs could be.
read nowUkrainian bank rethinks IT outsourcing
March 29, 2012
OpenWay, a multiregional card management and channel banking software vendor, today announced that Ukraine's Oschadbank has brought its card management and…
read nowU.K.'s WorldPay launches Discover in advance of jubilee, olympics
March 29, 2012
Streamline, part of the WorldPay group and the largest provider of card payment processing in the U.K. and Europe, announced today the launch of Discover and…
read nowWhat's making news in Nigeria
March 29, 2012
The Central Bank of Nigeria said POS terminals and ATMs in Nigeria will be enabled for biometric identification by 2013, a report at allafrica.com said.
read nowU.S. companies on EMV technology: 'Meh.'
March 29, 2012
It seems American companies are still a bit blasé about EMV. Aureimma Consulting Group and Savantor (also a consultancy) today announced the results of their…
read nowStudy: Nearly all cyber attacks in 2011 were avoidable
March 28, 2012
A Verizon study released last Thursday said that 97 percent of the cyber attacks on FIs and other companies last year were carried out using fairly simple…
read nowBoom mobile banking, Allpoint ATM network partner on services
March 28, 2012
Boom, a mobile banking provider, and money transfer service owner m-Via have announced both a new low-cost pricing model and a deal with surcharge-free ATM…
read nowSenator Feinstein decries ADA 'shakedown' suits
March 28, 2012
At least one U.S. senator is paying attention to the proliferation of predatory ADA lawsuits. An article at law.com reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D…
read nowNew Zealand ATM skimming investigation broadens
March 27, 2012
Police are revising upward their initial appraisal of a card scamming incident affecting customers of New Zealand's ANZ and National Banks (which are a part of…
read nowIndian banks pushed to reduce debit fees
March 27, 2012
U.S. ATM operators have company: The Reserve Bank of India is pressuring banks in that country to lower fees on debit card transactions, according to a news…
read now'Will you be paying with plastic ... or plastic?'
March 27, 2012
On Monday, the Bank of Canada introduced a new $50 bill printed on a state-of-the-art polymer material, a news story in the Winnipeg Free Press reported. The…
read nowNCR packages consolidated services for European FIs
March 27, 2012
NCR Corporation today announced that it is introducing NCR Total Branch Services for European financial institutions. The program provides consolidated support…
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