Consumers Union Applauds Effort to Restrain Credit Card Practices

七月 11th, 2008 Payments News Editor In a press release, Consumers Union applauded "the government’s effort to protect consumers from unfair credit card practices and calls for quick adoption of the proposed credit card rules in comments submitted to the Federal Reserve Board about regulations proposed by the Fed along with the Office of Thrift Supervision, and National Credit Union Administration."

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Canada Leads World in Online Banking Usage

七月 11th, 2008 Payments News Editor comScore has released a report on the Canadian online banking sector showing that Canada is one of the world's most developed markets for online banking. "Canadians are typically very savvy Internet users, a fact that is underscored by their heavy usage of online banking," said Brent Bernie, president of comScore Media Metrix, comScore Canada. "But because the Canadian online banking sector is so developed and competition already so fierce, banks need to closely examine how they are meeting the needs of their consumers online if they are to achieve customer growth and retention through this increasingly important channel."

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Today is Launch Day for Apple’s iPhone 3G

七月 11th, 2008 Payments News Editor On his NetBanker blog, Jim Bruene writes about today's Apple iPhone 3 G launch - and that only Bank of America and PayPal have iPhone applications available for downloading from Apple's new App Store. Apple has made it easy for third-party developers to write and distribute new applications for the iPhone via the App Store. The App Store has a separate category for Finance-related applications for the new iPhone 3G.

Separately, comScore M:Metrics reports that iPhone users surpass all others in terms of their mobile media usage.

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Headline News - July 11, 2008

七月 11th, 2008 Payments News Editor

• Equifax launches Citadel: The most advanced application fraud prevention and management tool of its kind available in Canada
• GE Money Agrees to Sell Its Consumer Finance Business in Japan to Shinsei Bank
• Cronto Helps Banks to Stay Informed and Secure in the "Arms Race" against Internet Criminals
• CEBP Announces Best Practices for Decreasing Online Bill Payment Exceptions
• Electronic Payment Exchange's BuyerWall and PINless Debit Provide Payment Processing for Flint Telecom
• TransferOrbit Announces Launch of FonWallet Mobile Phone Solution for Money Transfers Throughout the TU-DNRO Network
• Open Solutions' Imaging Clients Gain Access to Superior Press' Check Scanner Fulfillment Solutions

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IBC Bank’s Bilingual Mobile Banking Application from mFoundry

七月 11th, 2008 Payments News Editor mFoundry has announced the launch of the industry’s first bilingual mobile banking application with the Laredo-based flagship bank of International Bancshares Corporation - IBC Bank. IBC is offering its mobile banking application as a free service to customers in both English and Spanish languages.

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Oxigen Launches Oxicash, India’s First Stored Value Wallet

七月 10th, 2008 Payments News Editor In India, Oxigen Services Pvt Ltd has announced OxiCash - described as "a prepaid stored value wallet accessible through the mobile or PC allowing users to make payments for a host of services such as prepaid mobile & TV recharges, telephone bill payments, travel services, e-commerce sites, mobile videos, music, games and other utility/insurance bill payments."

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TransUnion Launches New Models Focused on Bankruptcy

七月 10th, 2008 Payments News Editor TransUnion has announced newly updated TransUnion Account Management and TransUnion New Account scoring models claiming that "both models experienced improvements, over the previous versions, in their ability to identify bankrupt accounts -- in some cases by as much as 32 percent."

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Headline News - July 10, 2008

七月 10th, 2008 Payments News Editor

• Alliance Data Signs Multi-Year Agreement Extension With Top-10 Client New York & Company
• Denver Business Journal: First Data agreement pumps funds into Frontier
• Chicago Tribune: Banking on new technology
• China: 99Bill to Release Automatic Reload Payment Service at ChinaJoy
• MasterCard Still Faces Antitrust Suits After $1.8 Billion Settlement with AmEx
• WSJ: EBay Drops PayPal Plan Down Under

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Barclays Deploys Strong Authentication to Over 1 Million Customers

七月 9th, 2008 Payments News Editor Gemalto has announced that over one million Barclays Bank customers in the UK are using its cryptographic smart card reader, called PINsentry by Barclays, to provide stronger authentication for online banking. According to Gemalto, "the bank started deploying its strong authentication program in July 2007 and not one PINsentry online customer has suffered fraud since then. User feedback has proven extremely positive and Barclays observed that customer acceptance was higher than anticipated by 30 percent."

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Discover’s U.S. Spending Monitor Down Nearly a Point in June

七月 9th, 2008 Payments News Editor Discover has announced that its "Discover U.S. Spending Monitor fell nearly a point in June to 85.9, as consumers struggled with rising prices for essentials and continued to lose confidence in the nation’s economy. Economic confidence hit a new Monitor low, falling in June to a level that is nearly 30 points lower than a year ago."

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