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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
PayPal is bidding to tap into the fast growing African market through a partnership with Kenya's Equity Bank which will let the country's merchants sell to customers around the world.
25 October 2013
Digital payments start-up Dwolla is stepping up its attack on the card networks with the beta launch of a credit product for online purchases.
22 October 2013
Payday loan outfit Wonga is moving into the online payments market with the acquisition of BillPay, dubbed the PayPal of Germany.
18 October 2013
Amazon is taking on PayPal with a new service that lets online shoppers use their log-in details to make purchases on other e-commerce sites.
09 October 2013
The November tablet edition of Wired is to feature new technology from MasterCard which enables readers to purchase items direct from advertising and editorial pages without leaving the app.
08 October 2013
A new association designed to promote interoperable card-linked customer offers has been set up by industry players including Microsoft, Bank of America, Discover, Facebook and First Data.
07 October 2013
Visa, MasterCard and American Express want to overhaul global e-commerce security, ditching account numbers in favour of digital tokens for online and mobile transactions.
01 October 2013
PayPal parent eBay has confirmed that it has agreed an $800 million cash deal to buy Chicago-based payments start-up Braintree.
26 September 2013
Nearly a quarter of all UK online sales are now carried out on mobile phones and tablets, research from IMRG and Capgemini shows.
25 September 2013
Facebook has embarked on a limited roll out of a new feature that enables users to automatically enter their payment details for mobile shopping by simply using their social network log-in credentials.
24 September 2013
Italian bank UniCredit has teamed up with First Data to test a QR code-based mobile payments service.
PayPal is close to securing a deal to buy Chicago-based payments start-up Braintree as it seeks to crack the growing mobile commerce market, according to the Wall Street Journal.
23 September 2013
BNP Paribas, Société Générale and La Banque Postale have joined forces to launch a PayPal-style online payment system called Paylib.
17 September 2013
Barclays has moved into m-commerce, adding 'mobile checkout' and 'buy it' features to its Pingit person-to-person payments app.
16 September 2013
Zapp has struck a deal with WorldPay that will see its mobile payments system made available to thousands of merchants, including big names such as WH Smith and McDonald's, from next year.
12 September 2013
British e-commerce and mobile payments outfit Powa Technologies says that it has secured a $76 million investment which will be used to create 250 UK jobs.
21 August 2013
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