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American Express has joined a $19 million funding round for m-payments outfit Payfone and formed an alliance with the start-up to build a mobile checkout service.
13 April 2011
Visa Europe has vowed to pump EUR100 million a year into mobile and e-commerce in a bid to ensure it stays at the top of a rapidly changing payments tree.
08 April 2011
MasterCard says that from October next year all of its cards issued in Australia and New Zealand will include PayPass contactless technology.
30 March 2011
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is calling for the country's payments industry players to coordinate on system-wide innovation.
29 March 2011
American Express has unveiled a digital payment and commerce platform that lets users buy goods and make person-to-person transfers online and through mobile phones.
28 March 2011
Australia's Bankwest has revamped its Web site, taking inspiration from online shopping portals.
21 March 2011
With UK consumers increasingly going online to do their Christmas shopping they are also spending earlier, shifting from last-minute December buying to November, according to the Payments Council.
10 March 2011
US wireless carrier Sprint is working with payments start-up BilltoMobile to offer customers the ability to charge online purchses direct to their mobile phone bill, cutting out banks and credit card companies.
18 February 2011
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on electronic signatures and identification as it bids to boost e-business and e-commerce across the continent.
Online payments firm PayPal is adding 150 new positions at its European operations and customer service headquarters in Dublin.
Nearly half of the "most active" mobile device users would welcome the chance to pay for goods and services using their handsets, according to a global survey from Accenture, which also shows the West lags way behind Asia in adoption of the technology.
16 February 2011
Cosmetics firm Lush says its Australian and New Zealand Web sites have been hacked, urging customers who have placed orders online to contact their banks about cancelling credit cards.
15 February 2011
Visa has stepped up its assault on the e-commerce market with the $190 million acquisition of PlaySpan, provider of a payments platform for digital goods.
09 February 2011
O2 is set to join the growing band of telcos bidding to grab a slice of the mobile payments market when it applies to the UK's FSA for an e-money license later this year.
03 February 2011
French telcos Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR have teamed with vendor Atos Origin to form a joint venture company which uses mobile phone numbers in place of plastic card details for online shopping.
Pan-African wireless operator airtel is working with Standard Chartered and MasterCard to offer a mobile wallet service featuring a virtual card that is activated by one-time SMS passcodes.
In response to new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) requirements, PayPal is imposing further restrictions on its service in the country.
31 January 2011
Facebook has moved to tighten its grip on the virtual currency market, outlining plans to force all social game developers to use Facebook Credits for payment processing.
25 January 2011
Cosmetics firm Lush has shut down its UK Web site in the wake of an attack by hackers that has put the payment card details of customers at risk.
21 January 2011
Kabbage, a US start-up that provides working capital advances to online merchants has raised $6.65 million in a series a funding round led by BlueRun Ventures.
14 January 2011
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