In order to adapt EU payments market to the opportunities of the single market and to support the growth of the EU economy, the European Commission adopted today a package including: • A new Payment Services Directive ("PSD2") and ...
EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
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Leon's Furniture, its Brick Group subsidiary, the Hudson's Bay Company and Sears Canada have all launched independent fundraising initiatives to add those affected by the recent flooding disaster in Calgary and other parts of southern ...
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MasterCard and Visa are now taking action against VPN providers, according to Swedish payment provider Payson. Customers of Payson have apparently received an email stating that VPN services are no longer able to accept Visa or MasterCard ...
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MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
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Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile wallet services. Through 2017, NFC's ...
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Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
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The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle "@Reckz0r," wrote on Pastebin that Microsoft ...
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Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
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The National Retail Federation announced that it will formally oppose a proposed settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard, and urged retailers to carefully consider their own ...
IDG News Service - Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past $200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing ...
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Alberto Yusi Lajud Pena, found dead in the Dominican Republic two weeks ago, was the leader of the New York cell of an international gang of cyber thieves that authorities allege stole a staggering $45 million from ATM machines around the ...
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Enservio, a US-based provider of software and services to property insurers, has signed an agreement with MasterCard for the delivery of claims payments with prepaid debit cards. The card-payment solution will reduce costs for insurance ...
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The traditional structure by which payments are made in the UK needs to be vastly simplified, with retailers and other merchants dealing directly with customers' banks - not via "merchant acquirers" and other middlemen. The new structure ...
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