PayNET Recruitment Summer Package

The Mobey Forum says a standards-based approach to the provision of mobile financial services (MFS) has moved a step closer with the release of its research examining the challenge of sharing a mobile handset's secure hardware, the so-called secure element.
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NXP Semiconductors has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Inside Contactless and Infineon Technologies claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide contactless IC vendors.
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A new analysis of the m-payments opportunity forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phone for digital goods (such as music, tickets and games) and physical goods (typically gifts and books) will exceed $300bn globally by 2013.
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Ingenico has announced that the i3070 Contactless PINpad has achieved both MasterCard PayPass and Visa payWave approval. This makes the i3070 the first Contactless PINpad that can read magnetic stripe cards, smartcards, contactless cards and NFC phones.
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Dialogue Communications is spearheading yet more ‘Payforit’ developments this month with the launch of Payforit single click payments. Dialogue has been at the forefront of the m-payment initiative's growth over the past two years and, the company says, this latest feature will significantly improve Payforit's usability and revenue generating potential.
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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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