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MasterCard is to extend support for tokenisation services to store-branded credit cards and e-commerce merchants
15 June 2015
Facebook is working with e-commerce platform Shopify to extend testing of its 'buy' button, which lets users purchase products without leaving the social network.
11 June 2015
PayPal is to bring its One Touch for Web application to the UK and Canada, enabling consumers to pay for purchases online with a single click after their first login.
09 June 2015
The day after it emerged that Apple Pay is on its way to the UK, local rival Zapp has sought to grab some of the limelight by unveiling its new 'Pay by Bank app' consumer brand.
Apple Pay will launch in the UK in July, with eight of the country's biggest banks, a host of merchants, and Transport for London all on-board.
08 June 2015
Visa has signed four of the UK's largest banking brands for the full-scale commercial roll out of its V.me digital wallet for online shopping.
05 June 2015
Brits spent more than £600 billion on cards last year, with the number of purchases made with plastic soaring thanks in part to the rapidly growing popularity of contactless payments.
04 June 2015
Pinterest has become the latest social network to enter the e-commerce market, teaming up with Stripe to introduce a "buy" button.
03 June 2015
Having seen its Wallet service fail to take off, Google is aiming another shot at the fast-growing mobile payments market with the launch of Android Pay.
28 May 2015
Denmark's Danske Bank is boosting its popular MobilePay app by integrating technology from m-commerce vendor Powa which will give customers more global buying options.
26 May 2015
E-commerce payment processor WePay has raised $40 million in a Series D funding round led by FTV Capital and joined by Japan's Rakuten.
20 May 2015
Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne are to pilot a payment card that replaces the three-figure CVV code on the rear of the card with a small screen display that automatically changes periodically.
European lawmakers have reached an informal agreement on a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) designed to boost competition and innovation while improving consumer protections.
05 May 2015
Visa Europe has secured the backing of a number of major UK banks and retailers for a widespread summer rollout of its V.me digital wallet for online shopping.
PayPal is extending its One Touch payments system beyond mobile to the web, in a move the firm says will help merchants reduce abandoned shopping cart rates.
28 April 2015
SIX, UBS and Zürcher Kantonalbank are to launch a new P2P payment app, Paymit, that enables users to to request and make payment transfers by smartphone across Switzerland from the end of May.
British businesses were hit by card fraud once every 20 seconds in March, with small businesses being the most popular targets.
15 April 2015
Commmonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is making a move into the point-of-sale hardware market, teaming up with German tech firm Wincor Nixdorf and Ideo to launch a seven inch Android-based tablet system dubbed Albert.
31 March 2015
Online banking fraud jumped 48% to £60.4 million in 2014, according to figures put together by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK), which blames the rise on malware and confidence tricksters.
27 March 2015
Challenger banks will feature heavily in the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London. Craig Donaldson, CEO at Metro Bank UK, is joined by keynote speaker Sir David Clementi, ex-deputy governor of the Bank of England and chairman of Virgin Money.
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