Nigerian ATM deployer gets EMV certified

April 11, 2007

allAfrica.com: Nigerian independent ATM deployer Consortium, which operates the QuickCash ATM network, has received EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa…

More than 63 million Visa cards in Asia now EMV compliant

April 10, 2007

SINGAPORE - Visa Asia Pacific says Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand have joined Japan, South Korea and Malaysia in their number of deployed chip cards that…

BankNet links ATM systems

April 8, 2007

Viet Nam News:  Vietnam's National Financial Transfer Joint Stock Co. (BankNet) expects to officially launch an online connection among ATM and e-payment…

Gemalto puts Canadian FIs on the fast track to smart cards

April 5, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. - Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, has announced a new end-to-end solution to help Canadian debit and credit card issuers implement…

MasterCard kick starts mobile ATM-locator service

April 2, 2007

ePaynews:  MasterCard Worldwide has launched a service for cardholders that lets them use their mobile phones to locate ATM and merchant locations that accept…

First Data to buy Polish merchant acquirer

April 1, 2007

DENVER - First Data International, part of First Data Corp., just days before its parent announced plans to sell, announced it had reached an agreement to…

ATM-related scams triple in Bulgaria's capital

March 27, 2007

FOCUS Information Agency: Since the new the turn of the new year, thousands of complaints from victims of debit and credit-card fraud have been filed with…

Middle Eastern bank intros EMV ATM card

March 27, 2007

AME Info: Al Salam Bank Bahrain is distributing the Kingdom of Bahrain's first EMV-compliant smart ATM card.   Read more

TJX, Canadian breaches signal need for tighter card-fraud controls

March 27, 2007

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Two recent instances of card fraud highlight the need for tighter controls on prepaid cards and increased protection from ATM/debit…

STUDY: Payments play critical role in small biz

March 26, 2007

BOSTON - Payments are a critical issue for small businesses, according to a new study of small-business payment preferences conducted by Boston-based…

European processor reaches out with Level Four's ATM Developer

March 25, 2007

LONDON - Global Payments Europe, provider of processing services to the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced an expected…

First Data, PrivaSys sign licensing deal

March 21, 2007

DENVER - First Data Corp. and PrivaSys Inc., provider of software and card technology, have entered a long-term licensing agreement that allows First Data to…

Data breach leads to bank-freeze in Canada

March 20, 2007

BankNet 360: At least three Canadian Banks are freezing thousands of customer accounts after hundreds bank cards and PINs were skimmed and at least 70 client…

Drop in interchange could help, hurt prepaid cards

March 20, 2007

Digital Transactions: Should efforts by merchants to force down interchange rates succeed, the expanding prepaid-card market will be forced to confront one of…

Coinstar and the unbanked

Coinstar sees future in bill payment.

Innovus shifts focus from ATM to cards

March 18, 2007

New Orleans City Business: Innovus Inc. is changing its focus from ATMs to stored-value cards. The company, formerly of New Orleans, began making the change…

APACS: Cash is big fish in U.K.

March 18, 2007

Finextra: The United Kingdom's payments association APACS says Brits show no signs of abandoning cash anytime soon. That's despite predictions from Visa that…

CMB expects 15 million cards in China by end '07

March 15, 2007

ePaynews: China Merchants Bank, China's largest credit-card issuer after entering the Chinese market five years ago, expects its credit-card total to hit 1…

HSBC plans card expansion in China

March 15, 2007

ePaynews: HSBC says it plans to issue at least 1.2 million new credit cards this year in mainland China. The cards will be issued jointly by HSBC and Bank of…

First Data to buy Instant Cash from Wells Fargo

March 15, 2007

DENVER - Wells Fargo Bank N.A., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, and First Data Corp. have announced plans for First Data to acquire Wells' Instant…