Oberthur Card Systems CEO Announcement.
PARIS, November 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In its meeting yesterday chaired by Jean-Pierre Savare, the Board of Directors of Oberthur Card Systems accepted the resignation from office of Pierre Barberis as Chief Executive Officer and Director. After more than four years in office, the essential tasks entrusted to...

New CEO for Oberthur Card Systems.
PARIS, December 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Oberthur Card Systems, has named today Philippe Geyres as Chief Executive Officer of the company, as of January 2 2007. Jean-Pierre Savare, Chairman, is delighted to announce the strengthening of Oberthur Card Systems' senior management team: "The...

SBI rejigs JV with GE Money, to take control of card biz.
MUMBAI: State Bank of India is overhauling its joint venture with GE Money. The bank has moved to have greater control over the credit card business while GE has been given the freedom to provide card processing services to other banks. Meanwhile, GE's proposed joint venture with LIC has...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company Now Offers Residential Customers Option to Pay Bills With Visa Cards.
New Pilot Program Provides for Quick, Easy and Secure Payments SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Visa USA today announced the start of an 18-month pilot program that will enable millions of Californians to pay their utility bills conveniently using...

Money handling equipment: cashless.
Manufacturers Coin Acceptors, Inc. Debitek/Heartland 800-325-2646 800-332-4835 Model BillPro-CRX Card and Bill Heartland Cashless Acceptor Payment System Description Bill acceptor/magnetic -- card reader Sales Features Accepts cash, credit or From vending solutions debit cards and coupons; that enable hotel and intuitive vertical card resort guests to use swipe ensures...

eService Extends Use of Postilion to Improve Merchant Acquiring Service.
Postilion to provide integrated settlement, chargeback, and reporting across eService's merchant acquiring estate LONDON and NORCROSS, Ga., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Postilion, a leading provider of software solutions for self-service banking and payments and a division of S1 Corporation , today announced that eService S.A., the wholly-owned...

Global Payments Europe Completes Asset Acquisition of Diginet d.o.o.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic and ATLANTA, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Payments Inc. , a leader in payment processing services, announced today it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Diginet d.o.o., an indirect payment processor for both point-of-sale (POS) and ATM transactions based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina....

Global Payments Europe Announces the Introduction of a Point-of-Sale Mobile Phone Card Re-Loading Service.
ATLANTA, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Payments Inc. , a world leader in payment processing services, today announced its Prague-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, Global Payments Europe, s.r.o., in cooperation with the Czech Republic retail chain Globus CR, k.s., has launched GP mobile, a mobile phone card re-loading service via POS...

Global Payments Europe Announces the Opening of an Office in Kiev, Ukraine.
ATLANTA, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Payments Inc. , a world leader in electronic transaction processing solutions, today announced that its Prague-based wholly owned subsidiary, Global Payments Europe, s.r.o., has opened an office in Kiev. The office, located in the Ukrainian capital, was established to facilitate expansion of the...

Chargebacks will put you out of business.
Direct response marketers live on a precarious three-legged stool consisting of presentation, connectivity and payment. The most fragile of these legs is payment. The rules governing the acceptance of electronic payments--both merchant services (credit cards) and ACH (electronic checks)--continue to become more complicated. Companies now have to...