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RSS chequeStreamlining Processing and Filing of Employment Forms
White Paper Eleven years ago, the URSSAF institution (French Social Security Contributions and Benefits Agency) created an employment vouchers service (the so-called Cheque Emploi Service or CES), to facilitate the payment and filing of operations for... [21 Sep 2006]
Banks to battle for orcs' gold?
News Once thought of as an escape from real world hassles such as money, virtual worlds - such as World of Warcraft (WoW) and Second Life - are beginning to operate just like real-world economies. These virtual worlds have enough members spending enough... [23 May 2006]
Gamers get cash card for virtual money
News I suspect certain demographics, who, because they have not seen a cheque in their lives, if they owe you £20, they will get their dwarf to deliver it to your elf. Gaming company MindArk has launched a cash card for gamers to withdraw money they... [04 May 2006]
Card spending beats cash
News Apacs said the increase of card spending was also contributing to a rapid decline in cheque spending. The peak year of the cheque was 1990 when 11 million were written every day. Retail debit card spending has exceeded cash spending for the first... [19 Apr 2006]
Asda does away with cheques
News An ASDA spokeswoman told silicon.com: "Less than two per cent of customers pay by cheque. It takes time to pay by cheque, especially when people are queuing, so this is about giving people the best service possible. [03 Apr 2006]
ID fraud soars with laptops targeted for data
News The last thing the fraudsters want is to walk into a store and try to cash a cheque and have that picked up," he said. An expert investigator into data theft has told silicon.com that a recent spate of stolen laptops and back-up tapes is just the... [28 Mar 2006]
Ex-Apple execs raise $140m to go tech shopping
News In a rather unusual stock sale, three former Apple executives have been given a "blank cheque" worth more than $140m to set up a new technology venture. In the prospectus for Acquicor, the founders describe the effort as a "blank cheque company... [16 Mar 2006]
Take a trip to the bank of the future
News When you get to the clerk you pay in your cheque, using your fingerprint to prove your identity. As you are walking in to a bank branch office, a member of staff you've never seen before rushes over to greet you by name. [24 Jan 2006]
AOL spending £50m to battle BT
News AOL is investing millions in local loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to help it compete in a higher speed, service-orientated broadband market. AOL has announced it will be spending £50m on the first phase of its LLU programme, which will... [20 Jan 2006]
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader We are dealing with a comprehensive system of surveillance and the idea government should get a blank cheque from us for it is odious. Today represents something of a landmark day in silicon.com's ongoing ID Cards on Trial campaign following the... [17 Jan 2006]
ID cards bill in crisis after major defeat in Lords
News We are dealing with a comprehensive system of surveillance and the idea government should get a blank cheque from us for it is odious. The government's controversial ID card plans have suffered a major defeat in the House of Lords with peers... [17 Jan 2006]
Sage snaps up payments firm Verus for £184m
News Sage's acquisition of the company, which specialises in credit card and cheque payment processing, will cost it £184m in an all-cash deal. Accounting software company Sage has announced it is to buy payments player Verus. [10 Jan 2006]
OFT to probe cheque clearing
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to scrutinise the way cheques are cleared as part of an investigation into whether faster transaction times are necessary. The OFT's Payment Systems Task Force will publish a report on their findings next summer. [08 Nov 2005]
BT gets out cheque book - twice
News BT has made two acquisitions, widening its IT services and networking portfolio in Ireland and the UK. The telco has bought the Cara Group, in line with its aim of becoming "the leading supplier of networked IT services in Irleand". [03 Nov 2005]
Get ready now for MiFID, banks warned
News If you sit back and wait until you know what it is going to do then you will end up writing a blank cheque to your supplier to be compliant in 2007. Analyst Tower Group warns the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will create one of... [31 Oct 2005]
