payments
RSS paymentsWhitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments
News Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. The system - supplied by Fidelity National Information services, IBM, Smart Technology solutions and... [07 May 2008]
Electronic Payments Primer
White Paper This paper discusses the NECCC Electronic Payments Primer, which is about electronic funds transfer, various types of payments, and how they work. The paper gives suggestions for applications that are appropriate for each payment type. [28 Dec 2004]
Effectiveness Through E-Payments: Current Learning and Suggested Best Practices
White Paper This paper focuses on e-payments which are the heartbeat of many e-government applications today. In order to transact business electronically with citizens, employees, other governments, and businesses, governments must develop secure ways to... [28 Dec 2004]
Check 21: Catalyst for Payments Transformation
White Paper This webcast elaborates on Check 21 as a catalyst for payments transformation. [04 Mar 2005]
Financial Management: Challenges in Meeting Requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act
White Paper Measuring improper payments and designing and implementing actions to reduce or eliminate them are not simple tasks. The ultimate success of the governmentwide effort to reduce improper payments depends, in part, on each federal agency's continuing... [31 May 2005]
M-payments: Big opportunity, big problems along the way
Comment Several factors have frustrated the early stages of m-payments. Retailers would prefer to have banks at the centre of m-payments, according to research by Forrester's Lussanet. Yet after getting giddy shouting about mobile payments operators are... [24 Jan 2002]
Electronic Payments and the Future of Electronic Commerce
White Paper We discuss these two scenarios relating them to electronic payments and digital currencies. We discuss market implications of adopting electronic payment systems and digital currencies in electronic commerce. [02 Sep 2008]
Sage snaps up payments firm Verus for £184m
News Accounting software company Sage has announced it is to buy payments player Verus. Sage's acquisition of the company, which specialises in credit card and cheque payment processing, will cost it £184m in an all-cash deal. [10 Jan 2006]
Accepting Payments Online - What You Need to Know
White Paper By attending this Web seminar, you will learn about the basics of accepting payments online including the payment processing network and how online payment processing works, what you should know about fraud and what to look for in a payment... [25 Feb 2004]
The Euro in the Electronic Purse: Interoperability Issues of Smartcard Based e-Payments in Europe
White Paper The Internet enables e-cash payment for on-line merchants, and the smartcard enables e-cash payments for merchants in the real world. However only smartcard based e-cash has the potential to enable payments in both worlds, the real and the virtual... [25 Feb 2004]
Microsoft and Nordea Provide Global Infrastructure for Internet-Based Payments
White Paper It needed to develop a payments solution that supports these initiatives and can be rolled out to its corporate customers. Nordea has developed a payments and settlement solution based on Microsoft BizTalk Server and the Microsoft BizTalk... [25 Feb 2004]
Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network
Case Study The company - formerly known as BACS - processed four billion financial transactions worth £2.5tr last year, including nine out of 10 salary payments. Voca provides the technology behind the direct debit system in the UK and its payment... [07 Jul 2005]
Energis skips interest payments
News Energis has gained the support of its lending banks in its decision not to make interest payments due tomorrow. The carrier was expected to have forked out an interest payment of £13.7m on loans of £300m. [14 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet For heaven's sake, no, not text payments - payments using your mobile phone. NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. [20 Apr 2006]
Wireless payments: Hutchison 3G goes it alone
News The Networks365-based technology will enable single click payments from the mobile phone displays for micropayments while larger sums will require password entry. Hutchison 3G, holder of a UK third generation mobile licence, plans to roll out a... [18 Apr 2002]
