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Citi has expanded its global commercial cards footprint by adding Turkey to its proprietary platform, further strengthening its offering throughout Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). Citi has offered commercial cards in Turkey for some time, but migration onto Citi’s global platform enables both multinational and local clients to benefit from a globally consistent customer experience, [...]

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Thousands of unbanked households risk being made homeless unless they are allowed to choose how they receive their benefits under Universal Credit, the social benefit disbursement scheme recently introduced in the UK, according to Prepaid Financial Services (PFS), a UK prepaid payment provider to local authorities. PFS is calling on the UK government to give [...]

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European payment processor Equens has been selected by Finland’s OP-Pohjola Group as its new card processing partner under a long-term contract for card services. The first card transactions will be processed in the fourth quarter of 2014. The two entities already had an agreement for the processing of SEPA payments as well as their regular [...]

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Empiria Group released in May 2013 the ‘’mPOS World Brief’’. Based on extensive research conducted by Empiria Group from January throughout April 2013, mPOS World Brief was created not only as the supportive material to the mPOS World conference, however also with the aim to guide the industry through the complexity of mPOS business models. [...]

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The inaugural mPOS World event, staged in Frankfurt on June 24-25 by the Empiria Group, brought together 220 delegates from 40 countries and is the first major event dedicated to the fast-moving mPOS space, which is becoming increasingly crowded with new entrants looking to capitalise on the ubiquity of smartphones and tablet devices worldwide.

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