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News/payments
Romans can now pay for their railway and subway journeys with their contactless cards and NFC-enabled mobile phones, thanks to technology from SIA.
19 September 2019
News/Eftpos
US Bank has acquired talech, a supplier of point-of-sale software to small and medium-sized businesses.
10 September 2019
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has added a manned till and two self-checkout kiosks to its first mobile scan-and-go outlet after a three-month pilot trial failed to win over the general public.
09 September 2019
Three of Australia's biggest banks have contributed to a $4 million investment round in smart receipt start-up, Slyp.
Samsung, Visa and Fiserv unit First Data have teamed up to make the mPOS dongle a thing of the past, replacing it with a software-based system that lets merchants accept contactless payments of any amount on their handsets without the need for any additional hardware.
ING has teamed up with Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn and US tech startup AiFi to pilot a cashierless store where customers tap their bank card as they enter, pick up their groceries, and walk out.
06 September 2019
Amazon is testing biometric technology that will let Whole Foods shoppers pay for their groceries by waving their hands, according to the New York Post.
05 September 2019
Standard Bank has led a $4 million investment in Nomanini, a mobile pint-of-sale and data analytics service for merchants operating in typically cash-based economies.
27 August 2019
The City of London is installing contactless donation points where people can give money to a charity helping the Square Mile's homeless and rough sleeper population.
16 August 2019
From early next month, customers at 30 Co-operative supermarket stores in the UK will be able to avoid queuing at the till by scanning and paying for their shopping using their mobiles.
31 July 2019
Researchers at Positive Technologies claim to have discovered flaws that allow hackers to bypass the payment limits on Visa contactless cards.
29 July 2019
Visa has invested in Indonesian ride-hailing firm Gojek as part of a deal that will see the pair work together to spread digital payments throughout South East Asia.
17 July 2019
Sweden's popular mobile P2P app Swish is moving into in-store payments, running a pilot trial of Nets' bluetooth checkout technology at two restaurants owned by one of the country's leading corporates, cantina.
03 July 2019
News/devops
Visa has introduced a suite of APIs to help financial institutions and retailers offer their customers the option to pay off instore and online purchases in instalments.
27 June 2019
News/security
Visa is beefing up its security credentials by buying the token services and ticketing business of chip maker Rambus. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
25 June 2019
China's WeChat Pay has landed in Spain thanks to a deal with local banking giant BBVA and travel retail operator Dufry.
18 June 2019
With mobile banking and contactless payments becoming ever more popular in the UK, one in 10 Brits now live a largely cashless life, according to figures from UK Finance.
07 June 2019
A lack of preparedness for the EU's new regulations on authentication could cost Europe's online economy more than €50bn according to a number of payment processors and e-commerce merchants.
04 June 2019
The world's biggest card issuer, China UnionPay, has stepped up its European ambitions after striking a deal with a UK back-office startup, Tribe Payments, that will see it offer debit and credit cards in Europe.
03 June 2019
News/regulation
The UK's Raphaels Bank has been fined £1.89 million for outsourcing failures which left thousands of customers unable to use their payment cards on Christmas Eve 2015.
30 May 2019
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