1502 results about this entity
Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 13 Aug 2024
News
MasterCard is expecting an uplift in contactless transactions to lead to a revolution in mobile payments, with the card scheme currently running 50 NFC pilots across Europe.
08 April 2014
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will set up its own payments system after MasterCard and Visa cut off services to several of the country's banks in response to US sanctions.
27 March 2014
Financial services veteran and former Visa president Hans Morris has set up a fintech-focused venture capital and advisory firm.
Wal-Mart has filed a lawsuit against Visa, accusing the card giant of engaging with some of the nation's largest banks to illegally fix interchange fees for merchants.
Russia's SMP Bank says that Visa and MasterCard have stopped processing transactions for its clients after the US imposed sanctions on its major shareholders.
21 March 2014
In the wake of the Target data breach, rivals MasterCard and Visa have joined forces to create a cross-industry group that will push for greater payment security, beginning with the introduction of EMV chip technology in the US.
07 March 2014
Finextra TV
Carole Le Cunff, head of communications, NFC and payments programme, Orange, discusses the Orange Cash pre-paid mobile app and demos a transaction.
28 February 2014
Beating banks around the world to the punch, Ukraine's PrivatBank has launched a host card emulation-based mobile NFC payments service.
27 February 2014
The EC has accepted Visa Europe's promise to cap its multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) for cross-border credit card payments at 0.3%.
26 February 2014
Mary Carol Harris, director of mobile at Visa discusses where the firm is focusing in mobile payments, what the industry has achieved so far, and ambitions for 2014.
25 February 2014
The fees that banks charge retailers for processing shoppers' payments should be capped, Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs decided in a vote on Thursday.
20 February 2014
Visa and MasterCard have announced support for Host Card Emulation, a cloud-based mechanism for hosting NFC applications outside the Secure Element that effectively removes the need for bank reliance on telcos in implementing mobile payments.
19 February 2014
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