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Visa Europe, Carte Bleue merge operations
Visa Europe and SAS Carte Bleue are to merge their business operations in France and agreement on a Memorandum of...
Cross-border debits should be same as domestic payments
The European Commission has put forward a proposal modifying the provisions and extending the scope of the 2001 Regulation on...
ServiRed and 4B plan to merge their processing
Spain’s over-complex card market processing structure, with three domestic card payment groupings, is set to take a big step towards...
Consolidation propels First Data’s ranking
First Annapolis has published its ranking of the world’s biggest acquirers based on an estimate of the number of credit...
Gloomy outlook on fraud as new problems emerge
Figures released in October by APACS, the UK payments association, show that total card fraud losses increased by 14% in...
First contactless in Latin America booms
Libercard, ViVOtech and Inteligensa have collaborated to develop the first transport and retail combination contactless payment implementation in Latin America....
MasterCard reveals debit cards cross borders
MasterCard says it has seen cross-border debit card payments taking off in Europe, while cashless payments across Europe have increased...
EC rules on MasterCard interchange
The mid-December ruling handed down by the European Commission on MasterCard’s MIF (multilateral interchange fee) on intra-EU payments is claimed...