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MasterCard has teamed up with the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and telco Etisalat to launch what it claims is the first ever Arabic mobile money service.
25 June 2013
RuPay, the Indian bank-backed debit card scheme, has been enabled for e-commerce transactions over the Internet, extending its challenge to Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
24 June 2013
VocaLink has formed a new company, called Zapp, to build a service that will let Brits link their bank accounts to their mobile phone numbers and make real-time payments through their handsets.
Barclays customers will soon be able to use their Pingit mobile payments app to make purchases by scanning QR codes on adverts, the bank's managing director of cash management, Richard Martin, has told Finextra.
19 June 2013
Trustev, an Irish firm which uses 'social fingerprinting' technology to verify online shoppers in real time, has won the European Commission's Tech All Stars competition.
14 June 2013
Ignacio Garcia, managing director, iZettle Spain discusses how the vendor increased Mpos adoption by 25% in Sweden and how the recent €5 million investment from Banco Santander will expedite its global expansion.
The worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will soar this year, up 44% on 2012, according to Gartner. However, the research house has slashed its expectations for NFC, which continues to struggle to pick up momentum.
04 June 2013
In what is becoming a trend in the fintech world, Barclays has taken top honours at a London hackathon, this time triumphing at a weekend-long event hosted by payments start-up Birdback at Google Campus.
03 June 2013
As digital alternatives grew in popularity, Brits did 10% less of their shopping last year with cash, although it continued to be the country's most popular payment method.
30 May 2013
Spanish corporate behemoths CaixaBank, Santander and Telefónica have agreed to set up a joint venture to develop a range of digital services, including a mobile wallet.
Square is to move into PayPal's core territory with the invitation-only launch of a P2P email cash transfer service, dubbed Square Cash.
21 May 2013
With its mobile wallet struggling to gain traction on the high street, Google is to use its extensive Web assets to spur uptake, announcing a new payments API for Chrome browsers and the ability to send money as a Gmail attachment.
16 May 2013
Nintendo could soon take advantage of the Wii U's built-in NFC capability to let people make game-related payments by tapping a contactless card against the console's controller.
26 April 2013
US mobile and online payments start-up ZooZ has raised $2 million in a series a funding round led by XSeed Capital.
23 April 2013
An independent coffee shop in the Yorkshire village of Nether Poppleton recently had its PayPal account shut down after incurring the wrath of the e-commerce giant by stocking beans from communist Cuba.
19 April 2013
Electronics giant LG has struck a deal to integrate PayPal into its Smart TV platform, enabling viewers to pay for products and services through their remotes.
11 April 2013
Mozilla is to introduce an experimental Web API designed to make online payments on the desktop and mobile as easy as the checkout button for merchants.
05 April 2013
Nine Italian payment banks have begun the national roll out of the MyBank electronic payment scheme from EBA Clearing, enabling customers to pay for goods and services at online merchants from within their e-banking portals.
25 March 2013
A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London.
22 March 2013
Chirpify has brought its in-stream commerce system to Facebook, enabling users to transfer money to each other by commenting on news feeds.
20 March 2013
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