2005 - A Payments Year in Review - August Highlights
We're taking a look back at the major payments-related news stories for 2005. We've examined our archives month by month and have culled the the most important and interesting highlights. Each month's highlights can be found in the Payments News 2005 Highlights category.
Here are the Payments News highlights from August 2005.
- Putnam to Oppose Providian, Washington Mutual Deal
- Commerce Bank Eliminates All Fees with New Visa Credit Card
- Gartner Says ATM/Debit Card Fraud Resulted in $2.75 Billion in Losses in Past Year
- Banks Question Gartner's ATM/Debit Card Fraud Report
- PayPal's Goal: The Global Standard for Online Payments
- Experian-Gallup Personal Credit Index Shows 18 Percent of Consumers Report Being Victims of Identity Theft
- MasterCard Sued By Group of Retailers
- HSBC to Acquire Metris
- Mastercard's PayPass Service To Expand To 13,600 McDonald's Restaurants
- PayPal Discontinues Bill Payment Service
- First Data to Acquire Austrian Payment Systems Services
- KeyBank Introducing MasterCard PayPass Debit Cards
- I4 Commerce Introduces PayCapture
- Zopa: Peer to Peer Banking
- TSYS Finalizes Contract With Capital One
- Retail Decisions and Paymentech Launch New Electronic Check Service
- First Data Enters into Agreement to Purchase Citi Merchant Services Unit and Form Merchant Alliance with Citibank
- Gartner: CardSystems Flaw Shows Deep Credit-Card Security Problems
- First Data Decides to Exit Encorus Business
- CardSystems Termination by Visa USA Final
- Yahoo! and Alibaba.com Form Strategic Partnership in China
- Heartland Payment Systems Announces IPO
- Interest Grows In Japanese Mobile E-Purse
- New York Fed Conference: Antitrust Activity in Card-Based Payment Systems: Causes and Consequences
- China: 99Bill and NetEase Launch Online Prepaid Card Payment Platform
- Wells Fargo Settles Suit Over Merchant Card Processing Fees
- Chase's blink Card: Blinking Along in Denver Update
- Smartpay Announces Strategic Financing
- NTT DoCoMo Tries Expansion Into Credit Cards
- Wachovia Directs Online Customers to Communicate Through Secure Message Center
- Accelitec Announces PayPilot RFID Payment System
- Peppercoin Secures $8 Million in Venture Funding
- Morgan Stanley Decides To Keep Discover
- QueueCard Raises $7 Million Series A Financing
- Visa USA and ID Analytics Partner to Fight Identity Fraud
- Citibank Introduces Tap-and-Go Convenience for Its Debit Customers
- Chase, United Are First to Offer Airline Rewards With ''blink'' Technology
- American Express Enhances Membership Rewards Program
- Chase to Purchase Sears Canada Credit Card Business
- Smart Card Alliance Forms Contactless Payments Council
- MasterCard IPO Planned
- Card Issuers Sued Over Forcing Arbitration
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