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RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers were left unable to withdraw cash from ATMs, make card payments or access Internet and phone banking for several hours last night, after another technical meltdown at the group.
07 March 2013
Mobile money vendor PayOne has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Home Depot over the retail giant's use of PayPal's in-store checkout technology.
06 March 2013
UK mobile payment outfit Monitise has provisionally entered a new three-year agreement with Visa Europe guaranteeing a minimum of EUR45 million in revenues over the course of the term.
Italian bank UniCredit has begun market tests of a new biometric payment system that uses infra-red sensors at the POS terminal to recognise the geometry of the veins in the palm of the user's hand.
05 March 2013
Spain's Bankinter is prepping a contactless mobile payments service that does not require a secure element within the handset.
04 March 2013
Square has been told by local regulators to stop providing "money transmission services" in Illinois.
Australia's CommBank has launched a site that pools transactional data to give consumers insight into spending patterns and lifestyle trends.
American payments start-up Stripe has made its way across the Atlantic, launching a closed UK beta ahead of a wider European rollout.
01 March 2013
Oman's Bank Muscat says crooks have managed to compromise a dozen pre-paid travel cards, racking up RO15 million (US$39 million) in fraudulent transactions.
27 February 2013
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has launched a mobile money company which aims to make it easier for online shoppers to complete purchases.
A friendly ATM has been doing its best to bring cheer to hard-up Spaniards, dispensing free money on the condition that the lucky recipients promise to share their windfall.
26 February 2013
Location-based social networking outfit Foursquare has struck a deal with Visa and MasterCard that will see cardholders receive discounts for checking in at certain retailers.
Barclaycard US has appointed payments industry veteran Patrick Wright as chief operating officer.
Catch up with all the news from the MasterCard Mobile Payments Global Symposium at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.
Visa has struck a global deal with Samsung which will see the mobile phone giant pre-load the contactless payWave applet onto its mobile devices featuring NFC technology.
25 February 2013
Russian mobile payments start-up uBank has raised $8 million in series a funding from Runa Capital as it prepares to expand outside of its home market.
MasterCard has unveiled MasterPass, a digital service that lets customers use any card or enabled handset to shop online and in the real world.
Russian security researchers appear to have hacked a cash machine and used it to play a game of Angry Birds.
22 February 2013
Setting its sights on the European market, PayPal has unveiled a chip and PIN version of its dongle for turning mobile phones into card payment terminals.
Belgium-based payments outfit Bancontact/Mister Cash has unveiled a mobile app that taps QR codes to let users send money to each other.
21 February 2013
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