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Growth returns to the western European cards market
As researched and reported in PCM’s annual Payments Cards Yearbook – www.paymentcardyearbooks.com – with over 423 tables, charts and illustrations, the number of payment cards in western Europe increased to 884 million in 2010. The total number of cards in the region rose by 2% (19 million cards) in 2010, after a flat 2009 when [...]
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Voice biometrics to play a key role in security in 2012
ValidSoft has partnered with leading research house Opus Research to produce a report titled, Voice Biometrics Authentication Best Practices: Overcoming Obstacles to Adoption. The study, led by Dan Miller, senior analyst at Opus Research, evaluates previous voice biometric projects as well as the current industry landscape in order to identify a number of best practices [...]
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Experian and American Express announce international payment partnership
Experian and American Express announced a partnership to offer international payment processing and foreign exchange services to Experian’s UK clients. The deal will make it easier and cheaper for businesses of all sizes to make and process overseas payments online. The partnership adds a global payment processing capability to Experian’s existing range of services, which already includes [...]
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Retail banking – IT spending on the rise amid economic turmoil
Global spending on retail banking technology will increase by $3.6bn (3.2 per cent) in 2012, and will hit $135bn over the next five years, according to Ovum. In a new forecast*, the independent technology analyst reveals that banks in emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region will grow the fastest, at a rate of 8.3 per [...]
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Digital banking to be the norm by 2015
Digital banking is set to overtake branch networks as the main way customers interact with their bank by 2015.This is according to a new PwC report ‘The new digital tipping point’, which suggests that banks are missing a vital new source of revenue growth as they have been too slow to respond to the digital [...]
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