Romanian firm awarded with „Best Banking/Retail/Loyalty application” for a mobile marketing solution

Romanian firm awarded with „Best Banking/Retail/Loyalty application” for a mobile marketing solution

Bubble solution developed by the Romanian company Simartis Telcoms SRL is the winner of SESAME award for „Best Banking/Retail/Loyalty application”. Bubble is a SIM&server solution that offers to MNOs the new way to display commercials only at the time the mobile is in the customer hand. Usin

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Wincor Nixdorf suspends 2012 forecast as Eurozone crisis rumbles on

Wincor Nixdorf suspends 2012 forecast as Eurozone crisis rumbles on

German banking technology vendor Wincor Nixdorf, one of the three top worldwide ATM's producers, has decided not to offer a quantitative forecast for its 2011/2012 results, claiming the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis is making predictions pointless. The company, which is locally represented by Romsy

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Ingenico’s iSMP is setting a new frontier in the Mobile POS world

Ingenico’s iSMP is setting a new frontier in the Mobile POS world

November 7, 2011 - With the increasing number of mobile solutions (Smartphones, PDAs, tablets…), more and more merchants are using their devices as a business assistant. Ingenico goes one step further and transforms these devices into a real mobile POS combining a full set of business features wi

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Starbucks and PayPal report surge in mobile payments

Starbucks and PayPal report surge in mobile payments

November 4, 2011 - While banks and telcos continue to tread gingerly in the mobile payments space, trailblazers like Starbucks and PayPal are reporting massive surges in transaction volumes.  Starbucks says it has now processed more than 20 million mobile payment transactions since it rolled out it

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Visa Europe – “mobile phone services&e-commerce are the most significant opportunities”

October 31, 2011 –  Visa Europe announced today that has invested £24.7 million in Monitise, the technology company delivering mobile banking, payments and commerce networks worldwide, and put its CEO, Peter Ayliffe, on the UK mobile money outfit's board.  Visa Europe inked a deal with Monitise

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UK Payments Council set standards under a new National Payments Plan

UK Payments Council set standards under a new National Payments Plan

  October 26, 2011 - The UK Payments Council is to set mandatory minimum standards for Faster Payments and customer authentication for online and telephone banking under a new national payments plan. The revised roadmap comes four years after the first edition of the plan, which ran into controver

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EAST releases ATM crime update - card skimming fell by 33% to the lowest level since 2008

EAST releases ATM crime update – card skimming fell by 33% to the lowest level since 2008

October 20, 2011 - The European ATM Security Team recently released its bi-annual report providing an overview of the European ATM crime situation. The report shows a 69 percent increase in ATM related fraud attacks, primarily driven by a surge in reported cash trapping activity across 11 countries.

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Person-to-person payments coming to NCR ATMs

Person-to-person payments coming to NCR ATMs

October 13, 2011 - NCR, the worldwide leader in ATMs, announced they will be working with PayPal and S1 Corporation to enable real-time person-to-person payments from their bank’s ATMs to almost anyone with a mobile phone or e-mail address. This service will initially be available in the U.S. with

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Visa Europe lanseaza serviciile de plati mobile intre persoane fizice si alerte pe telefon

Visa Europe lanseaza serviciile de plati mobile intre persoane fizice si alerte pe telefon

28 septembrie 2011 – Visa Europe anunta lansarea serviciului de plati mobile de la persoana la persoana (P2P), care permite tuturor utilizatorilor inregistrati sa transfere bani oricarui posesor de card Visa din Europa de pe telefonul mobil. Disponibil din octombrie, serviciul face posibila transm

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Google launches mobile wallet

Google launches mobile wallet

September 23, 2011 - Search engine giant Google has kicked off a new era in payments with the formal launch of its mobile wallet service and the announcement of new co-operation agreements with Visa, Discover and American Express. Initially, Google Wallet will be available only to consumers in pos

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