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Secure Transactions News
EU considers new interchange fees regulations
The European Union (EU) is considering new regulations that could result in significant changes to the payments card market as interchange fees could vanish. According to the EU, the current payment card system is “unknown to consumers and often opaque for merchants,” and the organization hopes to pass new regulation to make the market more competitive (cf. Smart Insights Weekly #12-49).
The move would follow years of litigation between the European regulators and payment card networks Visa and MasterCard, which process the majority of transactions across Europe.
Nigeria to issue MasterCard-powered national ID cards
The Nigerian government has commenced the roll out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with biometric and ePayment capability as a pilot program under the recently deployed National Identity Management System, or NIMS (cf. Smart Insights Weekly #13-12).
In the first phase of the program, Nigerians 16 years and older, and all residents in the country for more than two years, will get the new multipurpose identity card which has 13 applications including MasterCard’s prepaid payment technology utilizing EMV Chip & PIN.
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Smart Insights Publishes a New White Paper “Open Loop in US Transportation Systems”
Intelling, a consultancy specializing in secure transactions, just published a new Smart Insights White Paper titled “Open Loop in US Transportation Systems” to bring to the public a better understanding of major changes ongoing in US transportation systems payment.