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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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