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London-based payments processor WorldPay is to spend $10 million to relocate its US headquarters and 617 employees to Atlanta, amid plans to double its American workforce over the next four years.
10 December 2014
A QR code-based mobile wallet that can be used for in-store, in-app, online and P2P payments has launched in Belgium with the backing of the country's major banks.
08 December 2014
Japanese messaging giant Line is rolling out its mobile payments service for online and in-store transactions to users around the world.
05 December 2014
Braintree is rolling out its One Touch mobile payments platform with PayPal to international markets.
03 December 2014
Stripe has raised $70 million in a funding round which values the San Francisco-based payments start-up at $3.5 billion, according to the Financial Times.
02 December 2014
Skrill Group is to acquire Ukash, a UK-based electronic money system that allows users to exchange their cash for a secure code to make payments online.
27 November 2014
Swipp, a mobile payments service owned by a consortium of Danish banks, has acquired Paii, a rival outfit formed by a group of telcos.
26 November 2014
Paylib, a PayPal-style online payment system set up last year by French banks, is extending its reach thanks to the addition of Crédit Agricole as a member and a deal with MasterCard that will let people use the service abroad.
25 November 2014
Coinbase has struck a deal with payments platform RewardsPay that enables online shoppers to use bitcoin for purchases at the likes of iTunes and Facebook.
20 November 2014
South Korean Web giant Daum Kakao has teamed up with 16 banks to launch a mobile wallet service for online, offline and person-to-person payments.
18 November 2014
E-commerce giant Amazon has paid millions of dollars in private auctions for the right to sell domains ending in .pay and .buy.
14 November 2014
Two of the world's biggest financial services firms, Visa and Citi, have promised to ditch their insular approach and open up their platforms to partners.
04 November 2014
As November approaches, data science company Feedzai is warning that the month is the fraudsters' favourite, when both card-present and card-not-present crime spike.
31 October 2014
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has played down the value of payments to the social network, saying that it will partner with card firms and PayPal rather than try to build its own system.
29 October 2014
Apple Pay enjoyed a relatively smooth launch in the US today, with customers of some of the country's biggest banks able to use their iPhones to make purchases at a host of bricks-and-mortar and virtual stores.
20 October 2014
Apple Pay will launch in the US on Monday, enabling Americans to use their iPhones to make payments at the likes of Target, Uber, Groupon, and Starbucks.
16 October 2014
The World Wide Web standards organisation, W3C, is bringing together banks, retailers and tech firms in an effort to develop standards for payments on the open web.
15 October 2014
Japanese messaging giant Line has become the latest social media player to enter the payments market, unveiling a service for both online and in-store transactions.
13 October 2014
Forget mobile payments, many Canadians are ready to shop through their internet-enabled fridges and chips implanted in their fingers.
08 October 2014
Visa is ramping up its tech investment, creating 2000 full-time technologist positions and opening a development centre in India.
24 September 2014
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