Visa Inc. and Better ATM Services, a technology innovator in the ATM industry, today announced the ability to dispense Visa Gift cards in addition to cash at existing ATMs, expanding the value and services delivered by ATMs.

Visa Europe today launched its second quarterly Contactless Barometer study. The Barometer canvassed perceptions of contactless technologies across the UK, Poland and Turkey, based on surveys of 1,700 banked individuals and in-depth panel sessions with around 500 contactless card owners per market.

EESPA announced at their first annual meeting December 13 2011 that a key goal of the newly formed group would be to raise the profile of electronic invoicing throughout Europe.

Bahrain Air will be launching its innovative loyalty rewards program to all its frequent fliers on its route network.

If you need one example that epitomizes the massive potential in mobile payments, you need only look at PayPal.

BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System e-payment solutions for the global financial industry, announces that it has signed a contract with Adexus S.A. to distribute SmartVista in Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and Peru.

Payments technology company Visa has certified smartphones from Samsung, LG and Research in Motion to work with its mobile payments systems.

eBay this morning said it has acquired BillSAFE, a Germany-based provider of purchase-on-invoice technology.

Global financial services company Citigroup has expanded its commercial cards offering across Israel.

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced their new line of embedded biometric technologies, including VeriFinger Embedded SDK for fingerprint biometrics, VeriLook Embedded SDK for face biometrics and MegaMatcher Embedded SDK for multi-biometric systems using face and fingerprints in combination.

The Nepalese Election Commission (EC) has completed nearly all its biometric voter registration as all but one district and just shy of 10 million citizens have been enrolled, according to a My Republica article.

The funding will be used to build out an NFC transport ticketing infrastructure in Paris and other major French cities as national NFC standards are finalised and carriers prepare to rollout NFC payments services across France this year.

Starbucks UK has been on a bit of a technology growth spurt over the last few months.

With appearing messages about recovery of the travel market and even visible signs of its growth, needs of travelers are also increasing.

First Merchant Services, a strategic partnership with United Bank Card (UBC), is pleased to announce that it will work with Charge Anywhere to provide state-of- the-art Mobile payment solution Free equipment for companies.

Finally after 2 years of development, the VirtueMart team proudly releases the first stable version of the new VirtueMart 2 Core.

EBay Inc’s PayPal unit is testing in-store payments with Home Depot, one of the largest retailers in the United States, as the online payments provider moves to expand into the physical world of brick and mortar.

By extending its service offering in the self-service sales channel and installing new ATMs, the Turkish postal service (PTT) wants to win new customers. To this end, PTT has commissioned Wincor Nixdorf to install 600 multifunctional ATMs.

Changes in consumer habits of customers of Estonia when using banking services entail in 2012, reducing the number of bank branches in the largest bank in Estonia, Swedbank of Sweden. 6 January, it was reported in the Estonian representation of Swedbank, noting that replaced the closed offices will receive the Bank bus.

Israeli officials said on Friday they were concerned the country may be under cyber attack after a wave of credit card code thefts in the past week by a hacker who claims to be operating out of Saudi Arabia.