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Contactless Can Boost EU Mobile Payments
Contactless Can Boost EU Mobile Payments
December 31, 2014  |  News

A new study suggests that while the contactless card has struggled to take hold as a popular payment method, the technology is likely to bridge...

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Startup Wants To Disrupt How Train Tickets Are Bought (Hooray)
Startup Wants To Disrupt How Train Tickets Are Bought (Hooray)
December 03, 2014  |  Europe

As much fun as it is to ride a high-speed train across Europe, it’s just about that miserable to buy the tickets online. But Paris-based...

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Estonian National ID Cards Embrace Electronic Payment Capabilities
Estonian National ID Cards Embrace Electronic Payment Capabilities
October 14, 2014  |  Europe

The Baltic country Estonia — about the population of Dallas, Texas  — embraces a niche in the payment world with its use of national identity cards...

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Carbon-Credit Trading Scandal Unfolds In Italian Court
Carbon-Credit Trading Scandal Unfolds In Italian Court
October 03, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Italian taxpayers may have been cheated out of 8.5 billion kroner ($1.4 billion) in a cap and trade scandal that saw various European nation’s trading...

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Will Interchange Fee Caps Kill  Commercial Cards?
Will Interchange Fee Caps Kill Commercial Cards?
April 10, 2014  |  B2B Payments

It had been known since the summer of 2013 that The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee would vote to introduce a cap...

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Ingenico Combines European Units
Ingenico Combines European Units
March 11, 2014  |  Europe

Ingenico is combining its European business, or Euro-SEPA, and its Transaction business under a new entity managed by Pierre Antoine Vacheron. Get the Full Story...

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