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The Western Union Company
(NYSE: WU) announced today that Hikmet Ersek, 50, has assumed the role of
President and Chief Executive Officer as part of the company's previously
announced succession plan. He also serves on the company's Board of Directors.
Tieto
Corporation and Russian leading IT service and consulting company I-Teco will
establish a new joint venture company, TrustInfo, providing a full range of
globally competitive infrastructure and cloud services in Russia. Tieto
will own 70% of the shares in the new joint venture company and I-Teco 30%.
The payment network CyberPlat has introduced an option of purchasing Visa Inc. virtual cards for Internet settlements.
The manufacturer of payment
terminals KM Technology announced launching of manufacturing of the first in
Russia terminals with coin boxes. Launch of these new models related to
the replacement of 10 rubles bills in circulation with coins.
The
government of Ukrainestarted implementation of a project Electronic student ID. Within this project on
the 1st of September institutions of higher education should issue IDs
integrated with a payment card. The National Bank of Ukraine believes that within the
year the banks – members of the National system of mass e-payments (NSMEP) will
issue about 460 thousand of these cards.
As of August 30, 2010 the
number of VTB 24 ATMs, enhanced with cash-in, function reached 1 thousand.
Mobile operator MegaFon, payment
system QIWI Wallet and VAS Media company developed a new service that allows
MegaFon subscribers to pay for goods and services from their mobile accounts.
In August 2009 Alfa Bank started to issue virtual cards, intended only
for purchases and other online settlements. Over the last year clients of the bank
filled more than 100 thousand applications for virtual cards via online bank
Alfa Click.
West Ural
bank of Sberbank of Russia announced launching of new service. Now the system Sberbank
OnL@in and self service devices installed in the PermTerritory
allow topping up e-wallets Yandex.Money and WebMoney and virtual account in the
social network Vkontakte.ru using payment cards.
On August
20, 2010 during the general shareholders’ meeting of ZAO Sberkarta it was unanimously
decided to proceed with its voluntary liquidation.
Russian payment system Zolotaya Korona summarized
the results of its activity for 6 months.
During the 7 months of 2010 almost each 10th ticket of Gorkovskaya
railroad (GZD) – 9.1% - was sold via the Internet. The total number of tickets
sold online within this period was 346.3 thousand. In June only 71.5 thousand
tickets were bought at the web portal.
UNIStream
and Kumari Bank Limited (Nepal) launched a joint integration project, providing
UNIStream income transfers option in Nepal.
WebMoney Transfer system launched
a special application for the social network Odnoklassniki. This application is a fully-featured WebMoney walletof the account of the social network user. It allows transferring money between the users, buying
OKs (online currency of the network), paying for games and services (mobile phone,
internet and more that 12 thousand online shops), borrowing money, lending money,
making gifts to the friends – all that right in the popular social network
Odnoklassniki.
State Unitary Enterprise Moskovskiy Metropoliten (Moscow Metro) and OOO Aeroexpress launched a joint product – contactless metro/aero express ticket.
State lottery and QIWI Wallet offered new betting option to the users: now the payment can be made using QIWI Wallet.
According to the Bank of Russia as of August 24, 2010 there were 706 lending institutions that carry on issuing and acquiring of bank cards. The number of issuers equaled to 673; the number of acquirers – 631.
According to
the Central Bank of Russia the
volume of cross-border transactions made by individuals from Russia via the
financial institutions and money transfer system in the 2nd quarter
of 2010 was USD 7.397 bln. The volume of cross-border transfers received by
individuals in Russia
was USD 2.409 bln.
According to the results of
the “Survey of the market of payment cards of the Republic
of Moldova” provided to the PLUS
Journal by the National Bank of Moldova
in the 1st half of 2010 the number of cards in circulation increased
by 1.7% in comparison to the same period of 2009. The total volume of transactions
made in Moldova
in the 1st half of 2010 grew by 9.8%.
NXP Semiconductors announced that its SmartMX secure
contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German
contactless National Identity card (Neuer Personalausweis).
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