You may also be aware that a working group constituted by the Reserve Bank has also come out with recommendations for securing card present transactions through the use of additional factor of authentication.
The one-off exceptional revenues increased in total by 525 million euros, or 132%, and are related for the major part to capital gains income through the sell-off of the stock-holdings by several banks in Cedel, this in the context of the total acquisition of the Luxembourg based embedded payment and securities settlement system by Deutsche Boerse AG.