Payment systems

The Bulgarian start-up company, Payhawk, has attracted investments of 1 million leva after a new round of financing. The financial technology company, which offers digital cost management solutions for small businesses has 9 different investors, reports money.bg

An ATM was targeted by unknown assailants in the early hours of Wednesday in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.

Police said the ATM, which is located on Olympiados Street, was doused with flammable liquid and set on fire.

No arrests were made.

Police in Thessaloniki said on Thursday that they traced two suspected members of a ring believed to have tampered with nine ATMs which allowed them to steal people's card details, clone their cards and make multiple withdrawals from their accounts over the past two years.

The suspects, aged 33 and 41, are both foreign nationals, police said, without revealing further details.

The European Union has fined global credit card giant Mastercard 570 million euros ($647 million) for limiting competition between banks offering cheaper payment fees, reports AFP. 

Turkey's Halkbank has become the third state bank to declare a low-interest rate campaign for citizens to pay off their credit card debts.

According to her, the NBS plans to introduce the new service as part of its instant payments solutions, launched last October.

"Customers will be able to make payments using Skype or visual identification," Tabakovic said, and added:

Special wage grid pensioners claim the state is playing games with them, saying that not only have they they been shortchanged in terms of retroactive payments, but they have also seen differences in cases where the years of service and ranks are exactly the same.

Athens International Airport (AIA) presented a mobile app designed especially for Chinese travelers on Wednesday, aiming to make things easier for them when flying into and out of Athens as well as during their stay in the city.

The sale of electronic vignettes begins today at 14:00, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Paper vignettes, valid next year, will be converted to electronic via the bgtol.bg site (will be available on December 17) or at the desks where they are sold at the moment.

The supermarket chain T MARKET has launched its first self-service cash desks in its own store. They are located at the site of the company in the district. Musagenica in Sofia, reports money.bg