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UK payment processor WorldPay is to press ahead with a flotation on the London Stock Exchange, snubbing a potential £6.6 billion takeover offer from French outfit Ingenico.
18 September 2015
One-in-two people are more likely to use a new mobile payment method if it comes from a bank, according to a study by VocaLink.
09 September 2015
A Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform has attracted more than $200m in funding, led by Standard Chartered in what it claims is the first time a major commercial bank has invested directly in a Chinese internet finance company.
25 August 2015
Google could launch Android Pay in the US this week, beating rival Samsung to the punch, according to notices distributed to McDonald's restaurants.
24 August 2015
PayPal has bought Modest, a 'contextual commerce' startup run by two former senior tech leads on Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
20 August 2015
Denmark's Coinify has acquired rival Dutch processor Coinzone in a bid to create a pan-European provider of bitcoin-to-fiat payment processing for online merchants and PSPs.
13 August 2015
America's migration from mag-stripe to EMV is failing to pick up momentum, with just one in 10 people receiving new chip-enabled cards, according to a new poll.
07 August 2015
SIX and Swisscom are collaborating with Swiss banks to introduce a universal mobile payment service for online and offline transactions nationwide.
05 August 2015
Hong Kong network operator HKT has launched Tap & Go, a SIM-based mobile payments service for online, P2P and contactless instore transactions.
28 July 2015
Hot payments startup Stripe has landed a new round of funding from investors including American Express, Visa and Sequoia Capital, valuing the San Francisco-based company at $5 billion.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has reported an eight percent increase in fraud among cards issued or acquired within the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) for 2013.
22 July 2015
Payments processor First Data has filed for an IPO that could be worth billions, just eight years after the company went private in one of the biggest leveraged buy-outs ever seen.
21 July 2015
Connection to the Faster Payments Service could be a deciding factor for Brits looking to switch bank account providers, according to a survey commissioned by ACI Worldwide.
20 July 2015
Google has begun testing a buy button that lets smartphone users click on selected search ads to go to a product page where they can complete a purchase.
15 July 2015
For the first time in more than a decade, the fraud rate for card transactions in France fell slightly last year, new figures show.
13 July 2015
American Express is muscling in on PayPal's territory with a new service that lets cardholders pay at participating online merchants with just a user ID and password.
09 July 2015
With the UK launch of Apple Pay imminent, Barclays has joined the ranks of financial institutions and retailers supporting the home-baked 'Pay by Bank App' from Zapp.
07 July 2015
Amazon is bringing its business loan programme to eight new countries, including China, India and the UK, according to Reuters.
30 June 2015
Nearly half of all e-commerce transactions in the UK are now carried out on mobile devices, with tablets more popular for shopping than smartphones, according to research from Criteo.
25 June 2015
Ecobank has signed a deal with MasterCard to push electronic payments in 32 sub-Saharan African countries over the next decade.
15 June 2015
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