A 20-year-old man has been arrested in the town of Maastricht, Holland, being accused of hacking and stealing the details of 50,000 payment cards on the internet.

Network International, an Emirates NBD Company and Oberthur Technologies have set up a joint venture agreement to create a cards security and personalisation bureau in the UAE.

EOS Group's subsidiary EOS Payment has selected security services provider Secure Computing's Secure Firewall for security and manageability, complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

MasterCard is to implement the DirectExpress debit card for retirees, the disabled and others who receive Social Security and other benefits in Connecticut, 12 other states and the District of Columbia. Nearly 2.4 million Social Security recipients in this area are about to receive information on the new card with their monthly cheques in July.

Global Payments, a provider of electronic transaction processing services, now offers payments processing services with specialised technical and customer support to Mandarin and Cantonese speaking merchants in Canada.

GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, and the European Payments Council (EPC) which represents 8,000 banks in the European Union and EEA and Switzerland, are to collaborate in order to accelerate the deployment of mobile services in the single euro payments area (SEPA), supported by the existing mobile infrastructure.