News of payment systems

• Estimated market value of Visa Inc. exceeds 48 billion dollars
• JCB signs another Chinese bank
• European anti-monopoly bodies inspect Visa Europe
• Information that GLONASS payments are already accepted caused a press scandal

News of banks

• NAFI: which cards are most popular with Russians?
• Mass fraud attack against clients of Alfa-Bank
• Banks will entrust credits to terminals
• Bank of Kazan: the first mini-office
• NASA Selects JPMorgan Chase as card issue

Business. Technologies. Retail

• Russian Post offers development and modernization program
• Diasoft FA# Retail solution is introduced in EXPOBANK
• SAS: company’s software solution doubles the recoupment of marketing investments
• VendingExpo-2008 and World of Entertainment-2008 gathered 47 exponents in Kiev
• Dr. Web defeats BackDoor. MaosBoot virus
• New appointment in EMC Russia and CIS
• Diebold supplies ATMs to Bangkok Bank
• INL warns: mobile payments are used for money-laundering
• Novell and SAP develop cooperation