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MasterCard has added in-app payments to its MasterPass digital wallet as it bids to grab a slice of a fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry.
24 February 2014
Mobile network operator Orange has teamed up with MasterCard to launch a rechargeable pre-paid card and mobile app product in Spain.
19 February 2014
Mobile point-of-sale outfit SetPay is one of five firms to win a spot in Banco Sabadell's startup programme for technology companies.
17 February 2014
Pan-Asian restaurant chain wagamama is to begin taking online payments in the UK using the V.me by Visa digital wallet service.
12 February 2014
PayNearMe, a start-up that lets Americans make purchases online and then pay with cash in real-world stores, has raised $20 million in a funding round led by GSV Capital.
06 February 2014
Amazon is preparing to break out of the confines of its e-commerce site by building a person-to-person payments service and a point-of-sale system based on Kindle tablets for bricks-and mortar retailers.
30 January 2014
Stripe has raised $80 million in a series c funding round which values the San Francisco-based payments start-up at $1.75 billion.
23 January 2014
EBay chief John Donahoe has rebuffed proposals from activist investor Carl Icahn that the company should spin-off PayPal to increase shareholder value.
Visa Europe says contactless payments uptake is exceeding expectations, with the chip card technology now available in twice as many countries as this time last year, while transactions have nearly tripled and terminals almost doubled.
22 January 2014
The card scheme-owned EMVCo standards body is beginning work on specifications for the use of digital tokens - rather than account numbers - for online and mobile transactions.
17 January 2014
Five major UK financial services firms have committed to rolling out mobile payments technology from Zapp, enabling customers to make in-store and online purchases from within their banking apps.
15 January 2014
Nordea, SEB and Swedbank are to launch digital wallets for consumer online shopping using the MasterPass platform from MasterCard.
20 December 2013
Swedish online payments firm Klarna is preparing to take on the likes of PayPal after acquiring German rival Sofort for around $150 million.
18 December 2013
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has moved to address security concerns by introducing a physical one-time password (OTP) generating card for users.
29 November 2013
Nationwide has become the first UK financial institution to roll out Visa's V.me digital wallet for online shopping.
26 November 2013
Intel is embedding computers with NXP NFC technology so that online shoppers can pay with a tap of their MasterCard contactless card or mobile phone.
20 November 2013
30 years after the launch of Homelink, the UK's first online banking system, software house Intelligent Environments is setting its sights on the future of digital financial services by developing a smartwatch app.
18 November 2013
Swedish mobile payments outfit Seamless is arriving in Belgium after striking deals with local bank bpost and fast food giant McDonald's.
14 November 2013
UK mobile commerce outfit Zapp is targeting 20 million users by 2017, promising to rival traditional payments giants such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the decade.
04 November 2013
Australia's Commonwealth Bank has launched an online payment service for mobile phones utilising MasterCard's PayPass technology.
01 November 2013
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