ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of payment systems, today announced the appointment of payment industry specialist Sergey Lukyanov to head up ACI’s Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) sales and operations.

An expert in information security, presented a new way to steal credit card information of users.

On Track Innovations Ltd. announced that the Ministry of Public Security of Panama has awarded OTI with a contract for the supply, design, installation and integration of systems to monitor and improve immigration verification processes and overall immigration flow.

A group of Internet hackers said Wednesday it took down the website of the Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest state-run bank.

The Russian-owned Bank VTB (Armenia), Cosmopolitan Armenia magazine together with the Austrian Airlines announced today a set of privileges for holders of VTB Cosmopolitan plastic cards, effective from January this year.

PLUS Journal keeps you informed on the preparations for the 3rd International Forum ‘Innovations. Remote Services, Cards and Payments 2012’ to be held in Moscow on 21-22 May, 2012.

MasterСard Standard Transport Card of the BANK URALSIB is an international bank card that can be used for fare payments in the Moscow Metro and on all the kinds of public transportation in Yekaterinburg.

In 2011 Zolotaya Korona system provided its services to 9 mln clients who made 17.69 mln transactions in the amount of more than 8.7 bln US dollars.

Bank Kiev (Kiev, Ukraine) has signed an agreement with Oschadbank (Kiev, Ukraine) on consolidation of ATM networks.

Sales of bus tickets via the payment self-service terminals of the Bank National Credit (Kiev) are started in Ukraine.

The company LemonCard jointly with ZAO Mobi.Money implemented a service that allows paying for petrol with a mobile phone.

Gubernial consumer cards are being issued in Novokuznetsk since December 2011. Cardholders of these cards buy food at 7% discount in four retail networks of the city.

Bank of America is impeding an investigation of its loan modification practices by negotiating settlements with borrowers who must agree to keep them secret and not criticize the bank in exchange for cash payments and loan relief, Arizona officials say.

A crackdown on «phishing» scams has been announced by 15 of the top technology companies.

More than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while they were in a store during the 2011 holiday season to seek help with purchasing decisions.

The poll held by the company LIDER among its clients in December 2011 showed that metropolis citizens are starting to use self-service terminals and electronic payment tools more often to pay for commercial services.

A concept from Diebold, Incorporated is harnessing the technology used to provide high-speed, secure connectivity to laptop computers, smartphones and other mobile devices and applying it to the automated teller machine (ATM).

New Jersey Transit has become the first public transportation operator to announce plans to enable travellers to pay for fares with Google Wallet-enabled NFC phones.

The credit consumers’ cooperative Center of Investments and Lending Family Capital (St. Petersburg), that was founded a year ago, provided its members with discount cards and became the first microfinance institution that offered the clients a loyalty program that works in almost every area of services.

Mr. Hafezi was in northern Sweden visiting his daughter and wanted to grab some cash from an ATM located inside a famous Swedish Supermarket chain.