News of payment systems

• Visa Inc. began trading on the NYSE
• MasterCard appeals against abolition of interbank fees in Europe
• Agrochimbank became the 15th participant of SBERCARD RPS
• «Visa Olympics of the Imagination» children's artwork competition from Visa and Sberbank of Russia

News of banks

• Barclays Bank now offers mobile banking in India
• Present Card from Halyk Bank (Kazakhstan)
• Visa Classic «EURO<26»
• Sberbank of Russia switches to a billing technology
• Delayed debt growth rate is declining
• Citibank and Stockmann launch a co-branded project

Business. Technologies. Retail

• BPC Service Center will serve ATM network of Uniastrum Bank
• Capital Bank’s processing will be based on Compass Plus solution
• SAP: results and plans
• First NCR FastLane cash registers in Eastern Europe
• 6 thousand Wincor Nixdorf ATMs to be installed in Australia
• METRO Group will use NXP RFID labels
• BLM Technologies will promote VeriFone solutions
• Insurers discussed the problems of the insurance business automation
• Information security experts will gather at Russian CSO Summit I
• Oracle AppsForum 2008 - a synergy of the best for Russia
• RFID: Facts. Trends. Comments
• EMC: the «digital shadow» overshadows the digital Universe
• Internet worms are a menace to ATMs
• Skimming attacks in Ireland and Canada
• IOU Central is accused of violating the law

News of payment systems

• MasterCard: the number of EMV cards has exceeded 300 million

News of banks

• Will Russian banks prefer corporate credits?
• SMS credit – a new service offered by PrivatBank
• Sberbank will follow Grameen Bank’s example
• Barclays Bank buys one of the largest Russian processing centers
• Ukrgasbank joins NMEPS
• Asia-Pacific Region is the world’s debit card leader
• Britons are in card debt up to their ears
• EEFC installs ATMs in St.-Petersburg subway

Business. Technologies. Retail

• New Zealand Diners Club franchising opts for SmartVista solution
• NXP produces the smallest MOS transistor
• Sobinbank: a new service based on Compass Plus solution
• Diasoft FA#Balance solution for RosDorBank
• AMD will master production of 45 nm chips by the summer of 2008
• RSA enVision is now used by over 1000 companies
• Bolton public transport tests contactless payments

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• IPO of Visa Int. is to become the biggest in the USA
• New Director General of Visa Int. Office in Russia
• Retailers are annoyed by the delay of payments via PayPal
• Golden Crown: results of 2007
  

• Slowdown in the Russian credit card market
• Eastern Europe Cards Market is on the rise
• Promsvyazbank: 31 branches connected to PSB-Retail
• Sviaz-Bank management is replenished with the former Sberbank managers
• Uzbek Central Bank confirms the rules for organization of payment systems
• The leader of the gang, which robbed the Central Bank of Brazil, is detained
• Barclaycard reduces its card portfolio by 1 million accounts
• Citibank India is blamed for breach of obligations
• British banks plan to introduce Faster Payments
• The Fourth Financial Forum «Banking Retail in Russia»
  

• Successful termination of the Fourth International Conference of Compass Plus clients
• Updated version of Mobile Banking from UCS Co.
• NXP and NTRU improve security of microcontrollers
• Diasoft: Retail results in 2007
• IBM questions the results of FBI tender
• Diebold rejects Unitied Technologies again
• VeriFone will supply 16 000 POS-terminals to the Bank of China
• ID incidents affect almost 72% of Americans
• New York and New Jersey are ready to test PayPass
• A new threat to the chip cards security
• JCB and Cassis International test NFC technology
• USA will not insist on biometric passports for Russians
  

News of the issue

• New information services www.plusworld.ru

News of payment systems

• Raduga: results of 2007
• PayPal is still popular in Britain
• Social networks enter Canadian credit market

News of banks

• CB RF is going to counter the consequences of the world crisis
• URSA Bank begins to issue MasterCard products
• Banks of Kazakhstan: results of January, 2008
• British tax officers bought a Liechtenstein bank’s stolen database
• Japanese banks integrate with Japan Post Bank's ATM network
• British card swindlers prefer London

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Diasoft FA# Treasury solution in the NRBank
• Dr.Web AV-Desk on the servers of ER-Telecom Holding
• Diebold is again the «Leading Supplier of Outsourcing Services»
• Taxes in Russia will be collected via terminals
• British police vs card swindlers
• American users prefer PINs
• Vodafone launches a mobile money transfer system in Afghanistan
• iFin-2008 was visited by over 400 representatives of the Russian and foreign banks
• Call Center World. Russia/CIS – 2008 will open in Moscow on March 18, 2008
  

• Western Union: mobile money transfer pilots in Philippines
• The Government of Yemen introduces ID-cards

• Discussion on the terminals’ future to be continued
• Alfa-Bank launched PDA-version of its site
• An ATM cracker from Omsk turned out to be a student
• Indian ICICI Bank exploits mobile banking
• Hackers attacked Texas bank’s ATM and debit card system
• Social networks will compete with retail banks

• Wincor World 2008: «Empowering Process Innovation»
• BPC joined Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council
• Conference on IT-infrastructure of insurance business in RF to be held in Moscow
• Mifare cards in Kiev subway
• IBM recognized Diasoft as the best software vendor
• Plastic for officials
• New ISO standard for biometrics use in the financial sphere
• Dog eats dog
• India introduces compulsory tax payments through Internet
• Quality of British online banking service leav

News of payment systems

• DUET of 18 Uzbek banks: results of 2007
• Nokia and China UnionPay have launched NFC pilot project in Shanghai
• Kamcombank: the first MasterCard - Golden Crown cards
• E-port and Rapida joined ARCTEL bonus program

News of banks

• TransCreditCard gets a new owner
• Alpha-Bank: a new Chairman of the Board of Directors
• InfoSec, Inc. has audited MDM-Bank for compliance with PCI DSS requirements
• NOMOS-BANK has summed up results of 2007
• The Australian banks’ fees for transactions in «others’» ATMs are under threat
• The first EMV-cards in the Vietnamese market
• Egg deprives its unreliable clients of cards

Business. Technologies. Retail

• The first mobile street ATM pavilion from INPAS and Transcapitalbank
• The Organizing Committee of iFin-2008 Forum has announced its program
• Diasoft FA# Treasury: results of 2007
• Repartition of the express-payment market: new details
• Higher efficiency of chargebacks from BasePoint
• Phones of PayPass technology are tested in the State of Washington
• Sixth Conference «Enterprise IT security: technologies at the service of business» will be held in Moscow
• Bush asks for 249 million dollars for protection against hacker attacks
• Mari El swindlers were caught red-handed
• The largest card fraud in Hawaii

News of payment systems

• Team Visa’s third time in Russia
• PayPal will buy Israeli Fraud Sciences
• PrivatMoney is integrated with UNIStream
• PayPal: a package for donation transfer through Internet

News of banks

• EU has transferred to a single standard for bank transfers
• Banks of Kazakhstan issued over 5 million cards
• Sberbank of Russia has installed almost 11 thousand ATMs
• RosEvroBank became a member of Vantage Club
• Sberbank of Russia and Expobank have gained the status of AmEx acquirers
• Sobinbank has launched SobinDirect Internet banking system
• Ukrsotsbank will open 140 self-service halls

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Dr. Web AV-Desk and Corbina Telecom announced their joint project  
• InfoSec, Inc. is the general sponsor of Russian CSO Summit I
• RS-Bank V.6 in Pervobank: the first stage of the project completed
• A new expert council will help Oracle to better understand the bank market demands
• IBA and Azercell have launched MobilBank service
• Chineses will present each other with plastic dollars
• Scots are the leaders in the accuracy of identification
• NatWest Bank is phishers’ favorite
• Asian banks prefer biometrics
  

News of payment systems

• New appointment in the Russian Office of Visa Int.
• CONTACT opens up new lands

News of banks

• Visa card-to-card transfers in Mezhprombank ATMs
• Azerbaijan Post will provide banking services

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Phishing loses efficiency. Long live vishing!
• Forum «e-Finance Russia 2008» will be held in May, 2008, in Moscow
• Experian’s solution for debt recovery is introduced in Ukraine
• SlingCatcher subscriber attachment is based on NXP components
• R-Style Softlab solution in Pervobank
• Japan creates a 3D video observation system
• Server in the Sky will allow to exchange criminals’ biometric data
• Biometric ID-cards in the Indian medical insurance system
  

News of payment systems

• UCB "Novobank" became a new participant of SBERCARD RPS
• TransCreditBank joined SBERCARD RPS
• Electronic money transfers’ 90th anniversary

News of banks

• Alfa-Bank issues MasterCard Unembossed
• «UkrSibbank» has joined Global ATM Alliance
• PRAVEX-BANK and КІА Motors present KIA CARD
• Deputies will discuss the situation with terminals in January
• Surgutneftegasbank has started EMV-migration
• Banks banned in Second Life

Business. Technologies. Retail

• STMicroelectronics introduces chip for Chinese POS-terminals
• TietoEnator Card Suite in «Rusfinance Bank»
• DUET technology in the Savings Bank of Mongolia
• РђBS of the Credit Bank of Moscow is based on Oracle clusters
• USB-card in the South Korean market
• BSS: results of 2007
• BioMETRX will stress on solutions for mass consumer
• India: state sector is a mover of biometrics
• A Kazakh hacker robbed a post office
• A Chinese citizen got a life sentence for malfunctioning ATM
  

News of payment systems

• Debut of Pan-European payment card system
• Electronic tickets of the biggest air carriers can be paid for via CyberPlat
• Contact money transfer: results of 2007

News of banks

• Bank of Russia tests a new banking payment system 
• «Mules» are involved in the fraud against ABN AMRO arrested
• Cards are losing their positions
• First credit ATMs installed in Lithuania
• Vietnamese banks introduce ATM commissions
• Credit card overdue  payments volume grows in the USA
• «A Christmas present» for Greek Agrobank

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Diebold sets up Central American operation
• Multicard gets the status of REMA processor
• Indian Bank and NCR develop a portable ATM
• Gartner: losses from phishing continue to grow
• Biometric accounting system in American schools
• Believers donate via Internet and ATMs
• Payments to ON in e-port system
• Database administrator pleaded guilty to stealing ID data
• Portuguese schools protect children from kidnapping
• Philippine legislators will vote with their fingerprints
• Merge in the biometric systems market

News of the issue

• PLUS-weekly + PLUS-daily> PLUS-info + SMART-info!

News of payment systems

• Ukrainian banks issued over 49 million MasterCard and Visa cards
• CCCH has collected 30 million Russian credit histories
• Russian Post starts exchange of money transfers with France 
• CyberPlat: 100 000 payment acceptance points
• FBI creates the biggest biometric database
• Mobile banking’s prospects
• Rapid development of Internet banking in China

News of banks

• Halyk-bank: the first mobile commerce project in Kazakhstan
• Sberbank of Russia is the world's largest seller of AmEx traveller's cheques
• A major card fraud uncovered in Armenia
• Estonian banks fear card frauds

Business. Technologies. Retail

• A new Diasoft module for INTERPROMBANK
• The Forth Annual Experian Credit Risk Management Seminar
• Texas introduces biometric cards in a medical insurance system
• New Trojan attacks banks’ clients