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Google has entered the credit market, launching a card in the UK that small businesses can use to buy its AdWords search advertising.
08 October 2012
PayPal is preparing to ban Argentinian account holders from sending and receiving domestic payments.
18 September 2012
The Google Wallet has become a little fatter, with Barclaycard following Discover's lead and encouraging customers to add their plastic to the mobile payments system.
14 September 2012
MasterCard has struck a two-pronged global partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) that will see the pair use digital payments technology to both raise and distribute aid.
13 September 2012
Virtual currency transfer provider BitInstant has confirmed that it intends to launch a Bitcoin debit card within the next two months, despite MasterCard recently denying its involvement in the project.
23 August 2012
With e-commerce booming, the government and police must take the associated multi-million pound criminal threat more seriously, says the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
22 August 2012
Australian students stocking up on textbooks for the upcoming semester can avoid busy queues at Co-op Bookshop outlets by using their phones to scan QR codes in store windows and paying with PayPal
15 August 2012
Customers are increasingly willing to use alternative payment methods such as PayPal, claims the British Retail Consortium (BRC) as it tries to scare the financial services establishment into cutting credit and debit card processing charges.
23 July 2012
A European Commission survey of 27,000 people in all EU member states shows that twelve percent of Internet users have experienced online fraud and eight per cent have fallen victim to identity theft.
10 July 2012
PayPal has moved to kick-start its 't-commerce' plans, inking deals with DVR outfit TiVo and Comcast Cable that will enable viewers to make purchases through their TV sets.
13 June 2012
Payments professionals from banks across Europe are gathering in Edinburgh this week for EBAday, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.
16 May 2012
EBA Clearing has performed the first test transaction between two banks of the MyBank online payment scheme at the annual EBAday event in Edinburgh.
15 May 2012
PayPal has formed a joint venture with Japan's leading Internet company Softbank as it bids to finally crack the country's digital payments market, kicking off with the launch of PayPal Here.
09 May 2012
MasterCard has unveiled a digital wallet enabling users to make purchases in-store, online and through their mobile phones.
08 May 2012
Online identity verification start-up miiCard has secured £1.6 million in a second seed funding round joined by New Wave Ventures, IQ Capital and Par Equity.
30 April 2012
Visa Europe says it will launch its V.me digital wallet to an initial group of users in the UK, Spain and France this autumn.
Twitter commerce start-up Chirpify has raised $1.3 million in a series a funding round and launched a platform that lets musicians use the microblogging site to sell digital content.
24 April 2012
The European Central bank has issued a set of recommendations to promote the security of payments made over the Internet.
20 April 2012
US start-up Dynamics Inc has unveiled a payments card that incorporates buttons that customers can press when they make a purchase in order to receive different reward "experiences".
19 April 2012
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