News of Payment Systems

• MasterCard Names 65 Cities Which Determine the World Economic Growth
• MasterCard and RBS Intend to Test a Contactless Transit Card
• WebMoney Begins to Issue Visa Virtual
• Best Product Launch Campaign Award for ОSМP

News of Banks

• Business-seminar «Effective Methods of Bank Cards’ Promotion»
• SBERBANK Raffles off Tickets for Champions League Final
• Alfa-Bank Begins to Issue Visa Infinite
• АК Bars Bank Notifies STB Cardholders
• Bank Saint Petersburg Launches a Palm Computer Version for Internet Banking
• Citibank and Obopay Test a Mobile Payment System
• Commercial Banks of Georgia Issued over 3.2 Million Cards
• Credit History Bill Approved by the Council of Belarus

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Russian Electronic Industry Lacks 100 Billion Rubles
• Symantec and Softline Find out Attitude of Small and Medium Enterprises to Catastrophe Resistant Technologies
• Cisco: a New Solution for Optimization of DPC Storage
• Faktura.ru: New Payment Control Opportunities
• InformZaschita Installs ISCS in BTA Bank
• Regional Conference of UCS in Sochi
• Petersburg Social Commercial Bank Introduces CFT Solutions
• Angstrem Transfers Biometric Passport Chips to Atlas for Tests
• TietoEnator to Take Part in CARTES & IDentification 2008

Fraudfighting and Security

• Russian Companies Ignore the Law «On Personal Data»
• DDоS Attacks Assist
• In Kirghizia Internet will be under Control
• World Bank Admits Mass Cracking of its Servers
• British Ministry of Defense Admits Loss of Data
• Cyber Criminals Use Modern Business Models
• Interpol Creates a Biometric Database of Air Passengers

Card Society

• Ministry of Health will Create Patients’ Information Accounting System
• Socium Pension Fund Improves its Services with Naumen Phone
• 87 % of Azerbaijani Pensioners Get Their Pensions through Plastic Cards
• European Commission Plans to Expand the Rights of Internet Buyers
• Medical Centers’ Patients Prefer Biometrics