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Reloadable pre-paid cards are becoming an increasingly common alternative to current accounts in the US and, as a result, need to be more tightly regulated to protect consumers, warns the Pew Charitable Trusts.
06 September 2012
MasterCard has become the first international payments network to issue a license to a Myanmar bank, paving the way for branded cards to be issued and accepted in the country for the first time.
Olympics and Paralympics sponsor Visa has run into criticism for failing to provide on-site ATMs that are suitably equipped for blind and partially sighted people.
31 August 2012
MPs have called on Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland to remove their restrictions on customers with basic accounts using rivals' cash machines.
MasterCard has struck a five year deal with Everything Everywhere to build a mobile and digital payments system for the telco giant's 27 million UK customers.
28 August 2012
Visa Europe, Komerční banka, Telefónica and Samsung are inviting 2000 consumers in the Czech Republic to swap their SIM cards for an NFC-enabled payment card in a commercial test of contactless mobile shopping on the high street.
24 August 2012
Singapore wireless operators SingTel and M1 have both launched mobile contactless payments services, enabling customers to make purchases by tapping their handsets at the point of sale.
SumUp, the latest start-up providing technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals has launched in the UK, Germany, Ireland and Austria after securing more than $20 million in funding.
Virtual currency transfer provider BitInstant has confirmed that it intends to launch a Bitcoin debit card within the next two months, despite MasterCard recently denying its involvement in the project.
23 August 2012
Tap and go payments technology appears to have successfully established itself in the collective British psyche over the last year, with 84% of people now able to identify the contactless symbol.
PayPal has struck a deal with Discover that will see it tap into the card firm's network to bring acceptance of its mobile wallet to millions of US stores.
22 August 2012
With e-commerce booming, the government and police must take the associated multi-million pound criminal threat more seriously, says the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Some Square transactions went unprocessed yesterday thanks to technical problems that also saw the mobile payments firm's Web site go down.
Visa is preparing to launch an encryption service designed to help merchants, acquirers and processors protect cardholder data.
21 August 2012
Visa is working with banks in Myanmar to help build the country's electronic payments infrastructure as it opens up to the rest of the world.
17 August 2012
Aussie police say that hackers targeting merchant computer systems may have stolen half a million credit card numbers and racked up A$25 million in fraudulent transactions.
Discover has given its blessing to Google Wallet, adding a click-to-add feature to its online customer account centre to make it easy for customers to load their card to the search giant's mobile payments system.
Nets, the payments company owned by Danish and Norwegian banks, has agreed to acquire Luottokunta, the leading card payment service provider in Finland.
14 August 2012
All four major US carriers have joined with Google, Isis, the big card schemes and a subset of banks and payment processors to launch a 'Mobile Payments Committee', intended to smooth the way for the commercial application of new payment modes on the high street.
10 August 2012
In a bid to make headway in a crowded market, mobile-commerce outfit GoPago is making an aggressive pitch to merchants by throwing in all of its point-of-sale software and hardware - including a tablet - for free.
08 August 2012
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