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Bain Capital, Advantage Partners to buy MEI Conlux from Mars
April 11, 2006
TOKYO - Bain Capital, a global private investment firm, and Advantage Partners, a private equity firm in Japan, are expected to acquire unattended payment…
read nowThree arrested in robbery that included trapping employee in ATM
April 11, 2006
WDIV-TV (Detroit): Three men have been in arrested in connection with the robbery that left an employee trapped inside an ATM machine in Detroit's Canton…
read nowWho's who: Safwan Shah, the man behind the software
by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC
April 10, 2006
Don't let his humble demeanor fool you. Infonox' Safwan Shah is a catalyst, an innovator and a visionary whose work has touched the far corners of self-service…
read nowAdoption of open standards helps our industry
by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC
April 10, 2006
Level Four's Jorge Fernandez argues that ISOs need to jump on the Windows ATM bandwagon.
read nowNCR buys RFID firm
April 10, 2006
Dayton Business Journal: NCR Corp. has acquired RFID provider IDVelocity LLC. The privately held Greensboro, N.C.-based provider of radio frequency…
read nowJudge sends NCR, KAL to arbitrator
by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC
April 10, 2006
Nearly a year and a half after Dayton, Ohio's NCR Corp. sued multivendor software provider Korala Associates Ltd. (KAL) for copyright infringement, a federal…
read nowAuditors question TRM's viability
April 10, 2006
Associated Press: TRM Corp. said April 7 that its auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, has raised questions about the company's ability to continue.
read nowLatin America's card markets nearing maturity
April 10, 2006
ePaynews: Latin America's card-payment systems are nearing maturity, as are the economies of scale necessary for sustained growth, as POS terminal penetration…
read nowVisa Europe expected to pilot contactless payments
April 10, 2006
ePaynews: During 2006, Visa Europe expects to pilot contactless payments in several EMV card-using countries, including the United Kingdom, to leverage EMV…
read nowHSBC joins mobile ATM network
April 10, 2006
Channel Register: Consulting, technology and support company Morse announced that HSBC and First Direct are the first banks to join its mobile ATM network…
read nowNCR, techs reach agreement
April 10, 2006
Australian IT: An industrial relations skirmish in the technology sector appears to be over, with technicians at NCR Corp. voting to accept an enterprise…
read nowBank of New Zealand caught in cross-border ATM fraud
April 10, 2006
Finextra: Cards skimmed from Bank of New Zealand ATMs have been used by criminals in Toronto to steal N.Z. $49,000 (U.S. $29,890) from customer accounts in an…
read nowFiserv adds PassMark Security's authentication tech
April 10, 2006
BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv Inc. named PassMark Security a partner in providing multifactor authentication technology to its banking and credit union clients.
read nowDelaware town toughens ATM security, mandates 911 access
April 9, 2006
The (Delaware County, Del.) Daily Times: Council members in Sharon Hill, Del., a community just outside Philadelphia, passed an unprecedented ordinance that…
read nowAustralian Consumers Association concerned about ATM fees
April 9, 2006
ABC: The Australian Consumers Association says consumers are being slugged with fees for entering the wrong PINs, the wrong accounts or not having enough money…
read nowNew Zealand builds out EMV infrastructure
April 9, 2006
ePaynews.com: New Zealand's national payment network, Paymark, is soon expected to accept and process EMV chip-card transactions. Westpac Bank completed the…
read nowCard-reload network reaches Canada's unbanked
April 9, 2006
ePaynews.com: Canada should receive its first prepaid card reload network under a joint venture with card issuer and MasterCard partner Mint Technology Corp.
read nowVietnam prepares EMV infrastructure
April 9, 2006
ePaynews.com: In Vietnam, more than 4,400 EMV chip-card-accepting terminals are in use. By year-end, most card-acceptance points should be converted and ready…
read nowPrepaid Media appoints new CEO
April 6, 2006
NASHUA, N.H. - Prepaid Media, a media outlet and information services provider to the prepaid card industry, appointed Anil D. Aggarwal its chief executive.
read nowTexas credit union signs for Co-Op's processing services
April 6, 2006
ONTARIO, Calif. - Austin, Texas-based United Heritage Credit Union announced in a news release that it upgraded its product portfolio with Co-Op Network.
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