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  • Monday, March 05, 2012

    A Fraud Spike Prompts a Mississippi Bank to Get Up to Speed

    The fight against fraud is an ongoing one for most banks, particularly as fraudsters figure out increasingly cunning ways to defang the security walls that bankers build.

  • Monday, January 23, 2012

    Loyalty Programs Influence 84% Of Members

    ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of payment systems, recently released the results of a recent study of consumers in the U.S., which shows the majority of American consumers feel their loyalty programs deliver benefits that are important to them, a retention strategy that keeps customers from straying to the competition.

  • Thursday, January 12, 2012

    Can Mobile Answer The Loyalty Question?

    How do merchants sustain mutually beneficial relationships with their customers? That’s the fundamental question at the heart of modern retailing, and one driving significant investment in customer relationship management schemes, branding exercises and highly targeted marketing efforts.

  • Sunday, January 01, 2012

    Could China be the cure for what ails the U.S. electronic payments market?

    At least initially, the concept of targeting China’s electronic payments market appears entirely viable: Last year, China surpassed Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy after the United States; its gross domestic product (GDP) was expected to have risen by about 9.1 percent in 2011, and comparably so through at least the end of the decade, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Moreover, a population of about 1.3 billion would make China the world’s third-largest consumer market by 2025, according to worldwide business consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Further, credit card issuance to Chinese consumers remains on the upswing, with the number of account holders increasing from 11 million in 2004 to approximately 229 million by year-end 2011, reports The Datamonitor Group, a global market analysis organization.

  • Tuesday, December 06, 2011

    Christo Vrey talks to International Banking Systems Journal

    Interview: Christo Vrey talks to IBS about enabling the availability of products and services across all channels using innovative technology.