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Recent ECR Issues
March/April 2008
COVER STORY - Card payments fraud continues to mutate and develop, but collaboration may help banks and retailers to beat it.
CARD NOTES - Regulation – Commission scores an own goal • US interchange legislation • SEPA – Kroes lowers the bar for the third scheme • Payfair – a fairer option? • UK credit cards – then there were four • French co-branding – new launch by Banque BCP • Portuguese central bank study shows unprofitable payments.
PAYMENTS PROCESSING • CARD MARKETS • MOBILE COMMERCE • FRAUD AND SECURITY • PRODUCTS AND CONTRACTS
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January/February 2008
COVER STORY - Under pressure from the ECB to step up standardization work, the European Payments Council is trying to clarify some of the grey areas in the SEPA Cards Framework.
CARD NOTES - EC rules on MasterCard interchange • French market rationalization • Co-branding – new programmes rolled out in France • NFC payments – stepping up the pace • UK credit cards – missing, believed lost: anyone seen £4 billion?
MOBILE PAYMENTS • PAYMENTS SYSTEMS • PREPAID CARDS • POS TERMINALS • PRODUCTS AND CONTRACTS
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November/December 2007
COVER STORY – Contactless cards are today’s potential success story, with the UK alone predicting 80 million contactless-enabled payment cards by 2011. But are they anything more than a sideshow on the high road to mobile phone payments?
CARD NOTES – Debit cards – pressure continues for third scheme • More spin from Brussels ‘spokesman’ • EMV migration – not yet half-way • Swedish banks continue drive for economies of scale • Equens links with ICBPI • euroConex rebrands.
COUNTRY REPORT • PAYMENTS PROCESSING • SEPA • MOBILE COMMERCE • CONTACTLESS • POS TERMINALS • PRODUCTS AND CONTRACTS
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September/October 2007
COVER STORY - The PSD - Payment Services Directive – is aimed at challenging the banks and shaking up the payments across Europe. So who wants to be the Ryanair of the payments industry?
CARD NOTES - Legal affairs – Cartes Bancaires action dismissed • Citi offers fee-free money transfer service • Card processing M&A – you ain’t seen nothing yet • New Ryanair partnership with GE Money • Store cards – the end is nigh?
ACQUIRER STRATEGIES • DEBIT CARDS • PREPAID CARDS • MOBILE COMMERCE • CONTACTLESS • PRODUCTS AND CONTRACTS
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July/August 2007
COVER STORY - Initial expectations that banks would achieve SEPA compliance by migrating to MasterCard or Visa brands have been upset by the Belgian banks’ decision to shelve their planned Maestro migration. With the ECB beating the drum for a European debit scheme, what’s the way forward?
CARD NOTES - UK debit card payments set to double • Barclaycard unveils OnePulse • SEPA potential for decoupled debit cards • Maestro shelves SEPA interchange rates • Analysis of costs of payment from Visa UK • AIB picks Maestro.
CARD PROCESSING • PREPAID • MOBILE COMMERCE • CONTACTLESS • POS TERMINALS • PRODUCTS AND CONTRACTS
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