MACH Warns Lack of Roaming Fraud Protection Could Equal Losses of $5 Billion Globally

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Retail Decisions (ReD), a payment card issuer and world leader in payment card fraud prevention, is announced today as a finalist in The National Business Awards for The Orange Best Use of Technology in Business Accolade. Retail Decisions is one of 10 finalists.

September 2nd, 2009 LUXEMBOURG - MACH, the leading provider of solutions to simplify and accelerate the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain, announced today that it has signed a deal to provide roaming business management services to Polkomtel, the largest mobile operator in Poland. The Polish market has seen significantly increased competition in recent years, and the current pressure on retail tariffs will increase as EU roaming regulations come into effect.

June 28th, 2009 BENSHEIM, Germany - Organizations are spending millions of dollars each year on their compliance programs. However, many senior executives have become frustrated.

June 8th, 2009 LUXEMBOURG - MACH's Annual Conference Dedicated to Mobile Innovation, Interoperability & Interconnectivity More than 100 of the telecom industry's leading mobile network operators, experts, regulatory bodies and hardware providers converged on Lisbon, Portugal this week for Insights'09, MACH's conference dedicated to mobile communication innovation, interoperability and interconnectivity. MACH is the leading provider of solutions to simplify and accelerate the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain.

June 1st, 2009 MADRID - Link2One, provider of the world's fastest growing multi-lateral roaming hub, announced today that it has passed yet another important membership milestone and continues to record exceptional growth. The number of operator members more than doubled in the quarter just ended and Link2One now has over 60 operator members in 50 countries worldwide.

April 29th, 2009 LUXEMBOURG - EU Compliance Power Pack MACH, the leading provider of solutions to simplify and accelerate the creation and operation of the mobility supply chain, today announced its EU Compliance Power Pack, a range of solutions which offset the impact on operator roaming revenues of the recent EU pricing regulations. The solutions will immediately counter the forecast reduction in revenues by implementing smart rating and price optimisation.

April 27th, 2009 HELSINKI - New Policy Control Based Solution Helps Service Providers Increase Customer Satisfaction and Comply With New Legislation Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, today announced the availability of Comptel Roaming Cost Control to allow Communication Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide to give their subscribers control over their spending, especially when roaming. It also enables European CSPs to comply with the new amendment to EU regulation No 717/2007 brought in on 22 April 2009, which dictates that there should be a cut-off limit for data roaming services.

April 19th, 2009 CHICAGO - International Certified Fraud Deterrence Program Launches May 10-14, 2009 Reed Smith LLP (www.reedsmith.com), one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announces its selection as the legal education partner for an international series of Certified Fraud Deterrence (CFD) training programs being launched by the International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA, www.iacva.org). Cendrowski Corporate Advisors (CCA, www.cca-advisors.com), a financial operations consulting firm with offices in Chicago, IL and Bloomfield Hills, MI, created the proprietary CFD training program that is now licensed to IACVA for these international fraud training seminars.

April 3rd, 2009 HAYWARDS HEATH, England - HAYWARDS HEATH, England, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Peter Hepburn, Chief Executive of Cats Protection, said: "It is brilliant news that the Treasury Select Committee has recommended that charities should be compensated for losses incurred through the failure of the Icelandic banks. Cats Protection has GBP11.2m deposited with Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander (KSF) - a UK bank owned by an Icelandic bank, Kaupthing, which was put into administration in October 2008.

April 1st, 2009 LUXEMBOURG - MACH Positioned for Growth With Global HR Leadership MACH today announced the appointment of Dea-Anne D'Amico as Vice President Global Human Resources and member of MACH's Executive Team, reporting to MACH CEO, Guy Dubois. (Logo: (Photo: In this role, Ms D'Amico will lead all aspects of MACH's Human Resources organization worldwide, as well as global executive and employee communications.

September 1st, 2009 GENEVA - Over 50 global carriers lost $6 billion (Rs.30,000 crore) in January-June this year, according to the sector's representative body International Air Transport Association. In a statement Tuesday, IATA also said the losses stood at $2.02 billion (Rs.10,000 crore) in the second quarter this year (April-June) and forecast cumulative losses of $9 billion (Rs.45,000) for the year.

May 2nd, 2009 LexisNexis warns 32,000 of possible data breachNEW YORK — The LexisNexis online information service is warning 32,000 people their personal information may have been improperly accessed in a credit card fraud scheme that postal officials say bilked hundreds. New York-based LexisNexis says in a letter mailed Friday that former customers of the service may have viewed information including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

May 29th, 2009 Summary Box: ID theft ruling on fraud alertsTHE RULING: A federal judge in California has blocked LifeLock, one of the biggest purveyors of "identity-theft protection" services, from setting fraud alerts with a credit-reporting agency, Experian. The judge ruled that only individuals are allowed to set fraud alerts.

October 1st, 2009 Court adviser says EU roaming cap law is validBRUSSELS — The EU was entitled to cap roaming rates in 2007 as network operators pocketed huge profits but resisted less drastic ways to cut the sky-high costs of using mobile phones in Europe, the EU advocate general said Thursday. The opinion by Advocate General Miguel Poiares Maduro now goes to the European Court of Justice, which often follows that advice.

April 15th, 2009 ZURICH - The Swiss banking giant UBS Wednesday said it will take a first quarter loss of almost 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) and will cut 8,700 jobs worldwide by 2010. Most of the new losses were in further writedowns and cash outflows in its wealth management divisions.

July 8th, 2009 Falling house prices drive up mortgage fraudWASHINGTON — Falling housing prices are driving up reports of mortgage fraud, with the FBI saying Tuesday that reported losses are up 83 percent last year and climbing even higher in 2009. In its 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the downturn in the economy, a spike in foreclosures and defaults and diminishing credit availability "fueled a rampant mortgage fraud climate fraught with opportunistic participants desperate to maintain or increase their current standard of living." "Industry employees sought to maintain the high standard of living they enjoyed during the boom years of the real estate market and overextended mortgage holders were often desperate to reduce or eliminate their bloated mortgage payments," the report said.

May 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - The US military is preparing to test an experimental aircraft, called 'WaveRider', that can fly more than six times faster than the speed of sound on ordinary jet fuel. Officially, it's known as the X-51, but some like to call it the WaveRider because it stays airborne, in part, with lift generated by the shock waves of its own flight.

September 1st, 2009 TIRUCHIRAPALLI - The modalities for developing hypersonic missile BrahMos-II by the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace are in the final phase of finalization. BrahMos Aerospace CEO and managing director A Sivathanu Pillai told reporters here on Tuesday that a final shape of the project, aimed at developing the aerial version of BrahMos missile that could traverse at speeds between Mach 5 to Mach 7, would emerge shortly.

June 23rd, 2009 Senate GOP: Will Sotomayor uphold Constitution?WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are questioning whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor could be counted upon to uphold the Constitution on the Supreme Court. In multiple floor speeches Tuesday and later in a closed lunch of GOP senators, Republicans said they want to hear more about whether she would uphold constitutional amendments guaranteeing equal protection under the law and the right to keep and bear arms, as well as whether the government can freely take land from one person and give it to another.

July 20th, 2009 Iran's top leader reportedly warns politiciansTEHRAN, Iran — State radio says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told politicians to be careful in their stances on the country's postelection unrest, saying that disturbing security is "the biggest vice." Khamenei's comments appear aimed at warning opposition politicians against making any moves that would encourage further protests like the ones that shook the country following the disputed presidential election on June 12. Khamenei also says foreign enemies supported the unrest by broadcasting "procedures for rioting" through their media, according to Monday's state media report.