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Iceland’s Competition Authority fines Visa and MasterCard
Documents recently translated into English contain details of substantial fines imposed by the Competition Authority of Iceland (CAI) on the...
Faster Payments speeds up
Between its launch day on May 27 2008 and July 1, the UK’s Faster Payments service processed £2.6 billion in...
A tale of two brands
Is the UK market moving towards a credit card sector dominated by MasterCard and a debit card sector dominated by...
The future for Maestro
Following HSBC’s recent decision to change its UK debit card brand from Maestro to Visa (ECR May/June 2008, p5) there...
Processing deals by HSBC and KBC
Global Payments has agreed to form a joint venture with HSBC to provide payment processing services to merchants in the...
Chase Paymentech splits
As predicted in ECR May/June 2008, JPMorgan Chase and First Data have agreed to end their joint venture, Chase Paymentech...
Banks threaten SEPA go-slow
Murkier and murkier grow the prospects for interchange on payment card transactions in Europe, with read-through from the European Commission’s...
RBS/NatWest dumps Maestro
Within two years, Maestro-branded cards will be collectors’ items in the UK, a key global market. News leaked out in...