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New E-Payments Engine For Northern Ireland
News It has set up the Government Gateway and e-Payments Engine in an effort to encourage more online transactions. The Payments Engine provides a medium for financial transactions, while the Gateway can be used for a range of purposes.
[November 3, 2004, 11:48]
Banks Not Cashing In On E-payments
News Online payments specialists VeriSign, Paypal and Worldpay own the lion's share of the e-payments market, with the most popular payment methods still being the traditional credit card, merchant accounts and electronic cheques.
[June 20, 2002, 14:31]
Cash Faces Extinction As E-payments Emerge
News That's according to Gartner analysts, who predict making payments through mobile phones using virtual currencies — such as Second Life's Linden dollars — could be a reality in the not-too-distant future, making cash obsolete.
[November 12, 2007, 12:06]
Virtual Worlds Driving Move To E-payments
News E-payments may bring convenience to shoppers and retailers alike — but do they also boost the wallet? E-payments also cost both shoppers and retailers money, Kyte said, but the amounts are typically lower than existing payment systems.
[November 26, 2007, 8:12]
Egg Enables Cheques-by-email
News A service launched this week, Egg Pay, will let Egg users make payments of up to £200 to anyone with Web access, an email address and a bank account. Egg Pay is the latest twist on the concept of e-payments, which aim to use the Internet to replace...
[April 22, 2002, 14:38]
Government Promotes E-payment For Council Services
News A National Project to offer citizens the option of paying for council services electronically was launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office (ODPM) on Tuesday.e-Pay, funded by £1.2m from the ODPM, aims to help councils use e...
[November 17, 2004, 13:05]
Smart Card 2000: M-commerce Has Arrived
News Mobile phone giant Nokia, is currently testing a pilot of Visa card payments via a dual-chip GSM mobile phone. From its height two or three years ago, when e-cash embedded on a smartcard was seen as a solution to the problems of small Internet...
[February 9, 2000, 12:08]
Survey: ID Theft Costing UK Billions In Taxes
Talkback Social Security and Benefits fraud may well be running at around £2 billion a year, but the "identity theft" component of this is only around £50 million, out of total payments of over £100 billion a year.
[July 15, 2004, 1:36]
Mondex Banks On Land Of The Rising Sun
News The latest deal is the first stage of a wider plan to introduce Mondex electronic cash to Japanese consumers for low-value, transactions such as telephone, transport and vending machine payments. In a country where even fast food chain McDonalds...
[February 15, 1999, 17:12]
Staffordshire Pioneers New E-government System
News During this autumn the group will unveil an e-payments system that will allow customers to use credit or debit cards to pay for services electronically, via the telephone and internet. Stafford will follow suit later while Stoke-on-Trent and...
[October 6, 2004, 12:05]
Microsoft Reveals Latest Product For Bankers
News Microsoft on Monday announced plans for its first set of software tools designed to help banks and other financial institutions process payments and conduct capital markets trading entirely online. Accelerator for Financial Services enables...
[November 5, 2002, 10:34]
Barclays Trials 'wave And Pay' Debit Cards
News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner...
[December 14, 2006, 8:02]
BT Rolls Out One-stop Shop For Web Payments
News BT Retail is to begin trialling a system for making small payments online that could be attractive to thousands of Web sites, at a time when Internet companies are pinching pennies. Price said that while "click & buy" doesn't replace conventional e...
[July 2, 2002, 13:28]
New Venture Aimed At B2B Payments
News A group of financial and technology firms have teamed up to form an electronic commerce firm that will facilitate online business-to-business payments. The group, comprised of Citigroup, Enron Broadband Services, i2 Technologies, S1 Corporation and...
[August 7, 2000, 13:47]
New Rules Tighten Up E-money Market
News In the wake of failed schemes, banks are looking at other methods of enabling payments: Earlier this week online bank Egg unveiled a service that lets its customers make payments of up to £200 to anyone with Web access, an email address and a bank...
[April 26, 2002, 16:56]
Disposable Numbers Fight Online Security Fears
News The new scheme, Private Payments, allows customers to buy online without ever handing over their card number to a third party. Private Payments is a win-win for our customers," said Mr. Credit card giant American Express announced Friday plans to...
[September 11, 2000, 10:01]
Wal-Mart Accepts Electronic Cheques
News Online retailers are becoming more comfortable with offering electronic cheques as an alternative to credit cards, third-party payment services and bank debit cards in making online payments, industry watchers say.
[July 23, 2003, 8:42]
EToys To Creditors: We Can't Pay
News We are extremely disappointed that eToys suddenly stopped making its payments under an explicit plan, particularly following their history of consistent, prompt payments," Purdy said in a statement. RemedyTemp, which supplied seasonal workers to...
[January 19, 2001, 9:15]
Amazon Hit By 'shopping Cart' Patents Lawsuit
News When Open Market won the patents, it claimed their reach was extremely broad, covering much of the software in common use for Internet shopping and credit card payments. That includes software implementing the emerging Secure Electronic...
[February 26, 2004, 12:40]
Tax Credits Site To Stay Closed After Fraud
News One of the most recent problems with the tax credits IT systems is HMRC staff being forced to make manual payments as a result of an IT upgrade last November. Around 11,000 payments have had to be made manually because of that IT problem, which is...
[March 20, 2007, 9:51]
