137 results about this entity
Period: 04 Oct 2004 - 10 Dec 2024
News
Discover Financial Services has fallen in line behind larger rivals Visa and MasterCard, setting out a timetable for the US abandonment of mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology
15 March 2012
Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.
01 December 2011
Search engine giant Google has kicked off a new era in payments with the formal launch of its mobile wallet service and the announcement of new co-operation agreements with Visa, Discover and American Express.
19 September 2011
China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).
12 August 2011
Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
20 July 2011
US card scheme Discover has begun issuing contactless credit cards and stickers, targeted at early adopters of mobile technology.
29 November 2010
US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have appointed GE Capital veteran Michael Abbott to head up a new contactless mobile payments joint venture.
16 November 2010
PayPal has signed up a slew of big names, including Facebook and FT.com, to a new micropayments system for digital goods and services.
27 October 2010
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $5 million to Discover Financial Services in relation to the data breach that hit the processor in 2008, marking its final settlement with all leading card brands over the intrusion.
02 September 2010
M-commerce specialist Firethorn is signing up retailers for the launch of a mobile gift card application called Swagg.
11 August 2010
US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have teamed up on a contactless mobile payments venture, according to Bloomberg.
02 August 2010
Card companies, including MasterCard and Visa, have approached the US government about filing a WTO trade complaint against China for cutting them out of the country's fast-growing, $723 billion, payment processing market, according to Bloomberg.
26 March 2010
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