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BPC Banking Technologies announces the completion of the processing center implementation for Russia’s Universal Electronic Card (UEC) – one of the key components of the e-government project. As per the project plan, all systems are now ready to issue and process cards at the national level. The card is aimed to deliver a wide range [...]

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Mobile commerce is driving more and more sales for British e-businesses, according to an industry-leading survey by payment processor, Sage Pay. The third annual Sage Pay e-Business Benchmark Report of 1,500 online businesses in the UK shows a jump in the past 12 months in businesses championing mobile apps and optimisation – with encouraging results.  [...]

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Barclaycard and American Express have announced that they have agreed to expand the scope of their current global relationships with Barclaycard becoming an American Express card issuing partner in the UK. This builds upon their existing relationships and will enable Barclaycard to issue cards accepted on the American Express global network in the UK, for [...]

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Are you excited yet? After more than a decade of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) in the making, this most ambitious European Union (EU) integration project in the area of electronic euro payments will become a reality in the next twelve months.  Writes Etienne Goosse, EPC Secretary General   As reported on many previous occasions: [...]

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Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group a management and technology consulting firm serving the financial services industry, has released its mobile wallet review. CG assessed a representative group of 20 mobile wallets from various industries including: financial services, tech titans, merchants and card associations1.  The mobile wallets were evaluated based on depth of payment capabilities and [...]

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