July 26th, 2010 - China is leading the world in the uptake of mobile finance, with 77% of consumers using their phones to conduct financial transactions, according to a global survey carried out by KPMG. Compared with only 18 months ago, the global percentage of respondents who have used their mobil
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15 iulie 2010 – In perioada Campionatului Mondial FIFA World Cup™, din 1 iunie pana pe 11 iulie, cheltuielile cu cardul Visa realizate de turistii din intreaga lume in Africa de Sud au depasit 312 milioane USD, reprezentand o crestere de 70%, cu 128 milioane USD mai mult faţa de la acelasi
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14 iulie 2010 – Visa Europe a facut astazi public un ghid de bune practici al industriei pentru procesul de « tokenisation », oferind asistenta retailerilor, vanzatorilor, prestatorilor de servicii si acceptatorilor si promovand medii mai sigure de plata. « Tokenisation » este un proces pr
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June 30th, 2010 - Industry collaboration to drive forward MIFARE standardization for mobile transactions.
Seven leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem, Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon, a company in the Giesecke&Devrient group,
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June 25, 2010 — The number of mobile payment users worldwide will exceed 108.6 million in 2010, a 54.5 percent increase from 2009, when there were 70.2 million users, according to Gartner, Inc. Mobile payment users will represent 2.1 percent of all mobile users in 2010. The users
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Istanbul, June 22, 2010 ‐ Ingenico, the leading worldwide provider of payment solutions, today announces its partnership with Bank Asya, a leader of the payment systems sector, for the roll out of contactless payment solutions in Turkey. During the pilot phase, integrated POS terminals with contac
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June 15, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Treasury announced this week plans to switch to electronic payments, eliminating about 136 million paper checks, saving almost $50 million in postage costs and saving U.S. taxpayers about $300 million over the first five years and more beyond. Some states hav
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June 08, 2010 - MasterCard Worldwide today announced a new bill pay service for MasterCard® prepaid card issuers and program managers, and their cardholders. This new service leverages the capabilities of payment platform and services provider Aliaswire, combined with the industry-leading bill paym
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On 7 June 2010 the recently created SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Council met for the first time, taking a major step forward in strengthening the governance of the SEPA project at European level. The meeting brought together top-level representatives from both the demand and supply sides of th
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London, 2nd June 2010 – Following a string of bank pilots, Visa Europe has commercially launched its CodeSure system, which comprises a card with a display for generating one-time codes to authenticate online transactions.
Visa Europe, Europe’s leading payment system, today announced a major
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