EMV Migration Not Yet Half-Way

Macalla and WesternCard Association & Partners will launch the ‘WesternCard Express Program’. This programme is a worldwide m-payment service using the Macalla mobile transactions platform.
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National Australia Bank customers will soon be able to bank wherever they are and when ever they want, by sending an SMS from their mobile phone.
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Cornèr Bank and Visa Europe say the first Visa payWave card in Switzerland will be available to customers from Q1 2008.
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Vodafone and Afghan operator Roshan have launched Afghanistan’s first mobile money transfer system (MMT). The service, branded M-Paisa, is a mobile technology platform that provides financial services for those without access to banking and aims to facilitate economic activity in the region.
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Safer electronic financial transactions with new ISO standard for mobile biometric authentication
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Once again, debit card payments grew faster than credit card payments in the UK during 2006. The UK public just love their devit cards. And as grow powers on at 10% plus every year, the penetration of debit cards into sectors previously dominated by credit cards becomes more apparent. Debit cards are also used for 97% of ATM withdrawals in the UK. The latest report is available from APACS, UK Payment Statistics 2007 (September).
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Barclaycard has unveiled its new three-in-one card, Barclaycard OnePulse, which will combine Oyster transit, credit and contactless funtionalities across London this September. For the next two years at least, OnePulse will be the only combined credit and Oyster card in the UK. An initial pre-registration website is available at www.barclaycard-onepulse.co.uk with the information on the benefits of the card.
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Euronet Worldwide's subsidiary, Euronet Essentis, a leading international provider of Card Issuing and Merchant Acquiring solutions, has announced that Moneris Solutions, the merchant processing joint venture between Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal, is live with Essentis Acquirer.
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INSIDE Contactless demonstrates its vitality and development skills at human, technological and financial level by establishing new premises in Aix-en-Provence and opening its Singapore office.
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Following yet another successful year of growth for PayPal in the UK, Carl-Olav Scheible has been named as the new head of PayPal UK. The announcement follows strong first quarter 2007 figures with overall year-on-year growth reaching 31%.
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