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Facebook is taking its recently launched Messenger chatbot platform to the next level, letting bots accept payments without having to send users to external sites.
12 September 2016
Visa is hoping to bring a little Hollywood glamour to the world of payments, using the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as a showcase for its latest technology.
Apple Pay is adding support for the Felica contactless RFID technology in preparation for its launch in Japan at the end of next month.
07 September 2016
Following a similar agreement with Visa, PayPal has struck a deal with MasterCard that will help the e-commerce specialist step up its attack on the bricks-and mortar market.
06 September 2016
A year after launch, Samsung Pay has been used to make around 100 million unique transactions in seven countries, with the electronic giant's home market of South Korea leading the way.
24 August 2016
Singapore is set to introduce a payments system similar to the UK's Paym, which will let people send money using only recipients' mobile numbers, as part of a concerted effort to wean the city state off of cash.
19 August 2016
UK card fraud losses climbed by 18% in 2015, the sharpest rise in Europe, driven by online shopping and data breaches.
04 August 2016
AXA has formed an alliance with Alibaba that will see the French insurance firm develop products and services for the Chinese e-commerce behemoth's customers.
29 July 2016
MasterCard and PayPal have engaged in a "constructive dialogue" about a possible strategic alliance, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Four Australian banks are joining forces to negotiate with Apple and be allowed to offer their own payment services on the tech giant's hardware.
27 July 2016
India is set for a digital payments revolution, with the value of transactions set to hit US$500 billion by 2020, ten times its current level, according to research from Google and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
PayPal has agreed to make it easier for customers to pay with their Visa cards in exchange for long-term "fee certainty" from the card scheme.
21 July 2016
UK payment processing firm Worldpay is experiencing ongoing problems issuing payments despite promising to work with clients to resolve the software issue.
20 July 2016
Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest UK high street bank to launch a mentoring service for fintech startups.
18 July 2016
The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.
14 July 2016
More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.
With PSD2 looming, German regulator Bundeskartellamt has ruled that the country's banking industry is violating competition law by putting up barriers that hinder competing online payments services.
08 July 2016
The prevalence of mobile banking in Europe is soaring, with nearly half of phone owners now managing their finances through their handsets, new research commissioned by ING suggests.
07 July 2016
Apple is extending its payments service to the web, enabling shoppers that use its Safari browser to complete purchases by touching the fingerprint reader on their iPhones.
13 June 2016
Britain's love affair with plastic continues to grow, with rising online and contactless transactions driving spending on debit and credit cards up 10% to £660 billion in 2015.
10 June 2016
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