News of Payment Systems
• For the year Yandex.Money users have made 16 million operations
• First million BelCard–M cards
News of Banks
• Sberbank of Russia has opened the first self-service mini-offices
• Krasnoyarsk branch of MBRD and MTS start issuing MTS.Card cards for VIP-clients
• Belarus banks have increased their credit portfolio by 25.4%
• Kazakhstan: all banks in the country together have issued 7.2 million cards
• Armenia: the volume of bank credits increased by 4.8 %
• Aggregate credit portfolio of AMFA members has reached $380 million
Business. Technologies. Retail
• Oberthur Technologies Achieves MasterCard Certification for Flash Memory Based Payment Cards - Giving More Flexibility to Financial Institutions in Issuing Cards and Reducing Time to Market
• Znak Company (Ukraine) has passed Visa Inc. audit
• Compass Plus announces its products compliance with Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) version 1.2
Fraudfighting and Security
• Central Bank of Russia has prepared a guide for cardholders
• NBU recommends to establish video surveillance in all banks of the country
Card Society
• Belpochta gets payments for services via mobile phones
