Copyright © 2005 SpartaTechnologies Ltd. 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/ Electronic payment related news http://www.spartapay.co.uk/ http://www.spartapay.co.uk/images/SpartaLogoSmall.gif http://www.spartapay.co.uk/ Electronic payment related news SpartaPay SpartaTechnologies Ltd. SpartaTechnologies Ltd. en Online Payment Gateways 60 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 No sudden noise or movements, please. There’s an elephant in the room. He spooks easily. Careful with those tusks, Jumbo. Heck. There goes the Ming vase. Damn. He’s supposed to trumpet if he wants letting out. I’ll fetch the bucket and shovel. Again. There is always an elephant in the room that is British business. It is the public sector. Even if your company deals exclusively with other private organisations, its growth affects you. Heavy public spending has pushed up corporate taxes and put companies at a disadvantage when buying labour. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 By Jane Croft, Retail Banking Correspondent Credit card spending this Christmas is set to fall for the first time in more than 10 years, according to forecasts from a banking industry association. Consumers are likely to spend £11bn on credit cards next month, 3.5 per cent below the £11.4bn spent in December 2004. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 JOHN McFALL, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, called yesterday for banks and credit-card companies to employ stricter controls to prevent people with mental health problems being showered with offers of credit. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 Take care or you too could bid goodbye to your cash on the auction site, says Joe Morgan EBAY may be one of the runaway success stories of the internet age but evidence is growing that the auction website is letting down a minority of users that fall victim to rogue traders. Times[money]has recently received a spate of complaints from readers who have used the website in good faith only to find that the advertised item or promised payment never arrives. Others report receiving fraudulent “phishing’ emails, which impersonate the auction website in an attempt to lure victims into disclosing their account details. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 Investigators fear that companies don’t have the stomach to go the whole way in cracking down on theft, writes Isabel Berwick 16/10/05 technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 THE cost of introducing a national identity card scheme could rise to almost £30 billion almost £500 a card, the government will be warned this month. A report by the London School of Economics (LSE), details of which have emerged this weekend, says the cost of integrating the scheme’s computers with government data base will add as much as £10 billion to the college’s precious £18 billion estimate. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 YOU’VE probably received one of them by now - an email from your bank. It reminds you that it takes the security of your personal details very seriously and is in the process of strengthening its security measures even further. So it would be grateful if you could take a few moments to visit its e secure website in order to e confirm your details. ‘Click here to be taken to our secure website.’ technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 Credit card providers are poised to introduce annual fees in response to a multi- pronged regulatory attack on their revenue streams, according to a new report. PwC, the professional services firm, which counts a variety of card companies among its clients, said “rate tarts” — consumers who transfer their balance from one 0 per cent interest rate deal to the next — and a mounting tide of bad debt were prompting providers to consider annual charges. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11 A criminal network that stretched from hackers in America to former KGB agents in Russia has collapsed after police discovered that its masterminds were a pair of computer geeks in Leeds and Glasgow. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10 Credit card users could face annual fees of up to £30 because so called rate tarts are cutting into the profits of card companies, a new report claims. technology 2010-09-06T12:11:13+0100 http://www.spartapay.co.uk/news.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10