Finance 2.0:
More focus necessary on PCI DSS compliance
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance must be taken seriously, warn experts, with Visa vowing to tighten up its security rules on smaller companies accepting card payments from 1 July 2010
Voice Commerce launches VoicePay® capability
Voice Commerce launches On4, a system allowing both e- and m-commerce from the same store front and enabling payment processing and card transactions.
TEB first to use Next Generation Debit Card
Turkish bank TEB has become the first bank to offer MasterCard’s newly released Next Generation Debit Card, which has a built-in display for control and security
The Writing is Not on the Wall – using digital signage in finance
Smart digital signs can be used to give directions to an event or maybe sell an iPad by demonstrating what it looks like in operation, however their application to financial services is less clear. For example, in say personal finance, will the regulatory issues to be tackled, such as Know Your Customer, when trying to interact with “unknown” people mean that they will struggle to go beyond a more engaging rolling advert platform?
MasterCard launches Open API Developer Portal
MasterCard is to release Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) for third-party and independent software developers around the world later this year
New payment card security technology launched
A new payment card security technology has been commercially launched by Heartland Payment Systems, the US’s fifth-largest payments processor, and is available to merchants and business owners across the US
Companies team up for SEPA in Italy
VocaLink collaborates with Banca d’Italia and ICBPI for the exchange of SEPA payments based on EACHA interoperability standards.
Norway’s banks approve Todos AB authentication programme
The central committee of Norwegian banks, has approved Todos’ onMobile authentication service, meaning Norwegian banks can now deploy a secure mobile service to their customers.
Developments in the Payments market
Martin Coen, Dovetail Group CEO, talks to David Bannister about the where the payments market is going, the changing landscape and what financial institutions need to do in order to adapt.
Change is all around in payments
David Bannister, editor of Banking Technology, provides a point of view piece on the remittances market – how the big and small banks view the markets and what developments are afoot internationally that will shake up the industry.

