Retail Systems Awards 2007

Budget airline Ryanair has signed a deal with GE Money, the global consumer lending unit of GE, to provide co-branded credit cards across a number of European markets. The partnership replaces Ryanair’s existing co-branding alliance with MBNA, though MBNA is still issuing credit cards to Ryanair customers in Ireland.
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OMNICARD is the leading and credible platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience on the worldwide activities of the smart card and smart objects sector. January 2008.
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Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is to convert all its debit and ATM-only cards to Maestro with immediate effect, doubling its total portfolio of Maestro-branded cards. Under the agreement, all AIB debit and ATM cards will be co-branded Laser Maestro cards.
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Euronet Worldwide’s (Nasdaq: EEFT) subsidiary, Euronet Essentis, a leading international provider of Card Issuing and Merchant Acquiring solutions, today 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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TSYS announced the promotion of Kelley Knutson, former managing director of TSYS Europe and a veteran of the European payments industry, to Group Executive of Global Services responsible for all international sales, client relations and operations outside of North America. Knutson will be based in London, positioning TSYS in a global financial center to direct its payment services.
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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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