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MasterCard has teamed up with chip giant Intel to make online shopping simpler and more secure by letting customers tap their cards or phones against computers to complete payments.
14 November 2011
Credit card giant American Express has set up a $100 million fund to invest in digital commerce startups.
08 November 2011
Big banks and card schemes are among a list of 26 companies that are working with the UK government on the creation of a new personal identity system for consumers transacting online.
03 November 2011
Facebook is seeking to extend the reach its virtual currency, teaming up with developers to test Credits outside of the social network.
25 October 2011
The chief executive and chairman of cashless payments vendor USA Technologies has resigned over "inappropriate" comments he posted on the Yahoo Finance message board.
19 October 2011
Only 17% of Brits want to use their mobile phones as wallets, with security concerns the chief reason for reticence, according to a survey from Intersperience.
14 October 2011
PayPal has taken the wraps off its single sign-on digital identity service for online shopping, PayPal Access. The move comes as the San Jose-based payments operator unveils a series of new partnerships with a host of banking technology suppliers at the BAI Retail delivery show in Chicago.
12 October 2011
American Express is teaming with Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings on cross-border online payments.
28 September 2011
The EC has opened an antitrust investigation into whether the European Payments Council (EPC) is blocking new, non-bank, players from entering the online payments market.
26 September 2011
Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.
22 September 2011
Financial messaging network Swift has announced that its MyStandards project is now recruiting users after completing a closed pilot phase.
PayPal is stepping up its bid to take on card companies Visa and MasterCard in the high street as the boundaries between online and offline merge.
15 September 2011
Globally, mobile payments will represent 15% of all cards transactions by 2013, and will overcome plastic volumes within 10 years if growth continues at the same rate, claims the World Payments Report from RBS, Capgemini and Efma.
14 September 2011
Kabbage, a US start-up that provides working capital advances to online merchants, has raised $17 million in a series b funding round joined by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey.
17 August 2011
Following the arrests of members in connection with an attack on PayPal's Web site, hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec have launched an online campaign calling for people to close their accounts with the e-payments firm.
27 July 2011
American Express has launched a Facebook application that pushes special offers and discounts to cardholders based on their likes, interests and social connections.
19 July 2011
American Express has struck a deal with US mobile network operator Sprint to help push its Serve digital payments platform.
18 July 2011
PayPal is introducing a range of e-invoicing APIs that businesses can access directly from their applications.
15 July 2011
Google says it's ready to party like it's 1999 all over again, with mobile payments taking the place of e-commerce in a new gold rush that will transform consumer shopping habits on the high street.
13 July 2011
EBA Clearing has outlined plans to launch a pan-European electronic payments service for online shopping, enabling buyers and sellers to complete transactions through their e-banking portals.
15 June 2011
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