2005 - A Payments Year in Review - December 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 December 2005.
- EU: Focus On Single Europe-Wide Payments Area
- Visa USA Reports On Consumer Payment Preferences
- Biometric Company IDesia Closes Series A Financing
- Pay By Touch Completes Acquisition of Capture Resource
- PayPal for Lunch
- UK: Debit Cards No. 1 For Christmas Spending
- Citi Offering Free XM Radio with Citi Home Rebate Card
- Blue Cross And Blue Shield To Launch Bank
- RSA Security To Acquire Cyota
- China UnionPay And Discover Financial Services Launch Partnership
- JCB LINDA Sweet Card - First Scented Payment Card
- Indiana: Unemployment, Child Support To Be Paid By Card
- Pay By Touch To Acquire BioPay
- MasterCard Supports Micro and Small Payments Via Aggregation Model
- Pay By Touch and NCR Announce Strategic Alliance
- Data Breach Analysis Shows Low Rate of Identity Misuse
- Pay By Touch Completes Acquisition of CardSystems
- YeePay Launches Telephone Payment Service in China
- DiamondCluster: Decoding the Value in Payments Data
- Exante To Issue Financial Health Account Cards on Discover Network
- SmartPay Partners With Pudong Development Bank for Mobile Payments in China
- TSYS Acquires Equity Interest In China UnionPay Data
- TextPayMe Announces SMS-based Money Transfer
- Experian Acquires PriceGrabber.com
- Near-Field Communications Tested At Atlanta Arena
- Online Purchasing With SECURE-eBill
- Pay By Touch Acquires Two Loyalty Technology Providers
- Merrill Lynch, MBNA Extend Credit Card Agreement
- INSIDE Contactless Closes €9 Million Financing
- Fed Approves Bank of America, MBNA Merger
- A Look At E*TRADE's Mileage Maximizer Account
- Pay By Touch Launches Healthcare Initiative
- Citi To Launch Five American Express Cards
- Australia: RBA to Reform EFTPOS Debit Card System
- Bank of America Shifts Consumer Processing In House
- Bank of America, American Express Form Card Alliance
- HSBC To Issue American Express Credit Cards
- Status of American Express Credit Card Issuer Partnerships
- First Data Shuts Down BidPay
- BidPay Fails: What Are The Lessons Learned?
- iPayment Agrees To Buyout By CEO
- Pay By Touch Forecasts 6,000 Stores on Biometric Payments By YE2006
- First Data to Acquire GZS
- E-Gold Under Scrutiny
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