MasterCard Execs
Michael Miebach will assume the role of chief product officer for MasterCard on January 1st and will be based in New York. He currently serves as president, Middle East and Africa.
ANZ “Think Tank”
CardWeb.com’s CardWatch database of more than 57,000 marketing items today features the CardWeb.com’s Australia’s ANZ Bank’s “Think Tank” TV Spot.
ANZ “Sydney Mardi Gras”
CardWeb.com’s CardWatch database of more than 57,000 marketing items today features the ANZ’s Bank ‘The Story’ – Sydney Mardi Gras 2014 Highlights TV ad.
Cambodian Cards
Payment cards in Cambodia have rocketed by a
a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.31% since the “Great Recession”. At year end 2014, the cards-in-force (CIF), debit and credit, have topped 1.5 million.
Tap & PIN = No Skim
The world’s first EMV secure ATM ‘Tap & PIN’ Near Field Communication (NFC) solution that reads card data without having to insert the card in the reader, which helps to increases defense against skimming is coming next year in Australia.
Today’s CardPixes Feature
CardWeb.com’s CardPixes database of more than 7,000 card images today features the ANZ First Visa. The card is issued Australia/s ANZ Bank..
ANZ iLaunches Digital Card PIN Service
ANZ Internet Banking and ANZ goMoney customers are now able to set their card PIN numbers for personal Visa Debit, EFTPOS and credit cards online. Tis is among other upgrades ANZ offers which now allow customers to set their 4-digit card PIN for personal Visa Debit, EFTPOS and credit cards online and through the ANZ goMoney app; the option to turn off their paper credit card statements via Internet Banking; to receive a notification via text or email when their next statement is available, showing how much to pay and when and making automatic payments between the customer’s own accounts and to payees an even easier process through Internet Banking.
ANZ and Government Make mBanking Push
ANZ announced an agreement with the Australian Government to support the increased roll out of mobile banking and financial literacy programs to a further 65,000 Solomon Islanders previously excluded from traditional banking services.
As part of this partnership, the Australian Government will provide additional funding to assist ANZ to improve access to phone banking in remote areas as well as delivering dedicated financial literacy training, with a particular focus on women in rural communities. ANZ goMoney was the first mobile phone banking channel in the Solomon Islands. Since its launch in September 2013, it has attracted 17,000 new customers, including 10,000 customers who had previously never held a bank account.
ANZ & CUP
ANZ is expanding payment options for its customers by accepting UnionPay cards at 120,000 merchant terminals and ATMs throughout Asia Pacific. Under the agreement, UnionPay cards will be accepted at ANZ merchant terminals and ATMs by 2015. ANZ has had a presence in China since 1986 and was locally incorporated in 2010.
MasterPass Lauches in New Zealand
MasterCard announced the New Zealand launch of its ground-breaking digital payments technology MasterPass this week. MasterPass is the digital platform from MasterCard that gives shoppers a seamless, secure and speedy checkout – regardless of where they may be and what device they may be using. MasterPass eliminates the need for consumers to enter detailed shipping and card information to complete their online shopping at MasterPass merchant sites.
Visa payWave accounts in Virtual Cloud
Visa today announced it is offering clients new options to securely deploy mobile payment programs, including for the first time an option to host Visa payWave-enabled accounts in a secure, virtual cloud. The move expands Visa’s support for mobile payments globally and will give financial institutions greater choice in offering consumers secure ways to pay with smartphones. Visa’s support for cloud-based payments follows the introduction of a new feature in the Android mobile operating system called Host Card Emulation (HCE); HCE allows any NFC application on an Android device to emulate a smart card, letting users wave-to-pay with their smartphones, while permitting financial institutions to host payment accounts in a secure, virtual cloud.
CHINA UNION-PAY 2013
China UnionPay, the national bankcard association in China, reached a number of milestones in 2013 and is now accepted in more than 140 countries and regions and covering more than 10 million POS terminals and 1.1 million ATMs outside of China. Over 24 million UnionPay cards have been issued in about 30 overseas markets. Among major developments last year: The first UnionPay card was issued in Africa; the first time UnionPay has come into cooperation with an international tourism retail group; the first UnionPay credit card is issued in North America; the first time that CUP has cooperated with a local institution in Nigeria to expand the acceptance of UnionPay cards on a large scale; the first UnionPay debit card issued in Australia; and the first UnionPay travel card outside China is issued in Singapore.