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Hong Kong's Octopus contactless transit payments system is facing competition from the mainland, as WeChat begins trialling its mobile wallets on the island's railway network.
24 November 2017
A group of Norwegian banks are preparing to merge their payments systems in an effort to protect themselves from an expected challenge from Silicon Valley.
22 November 2017
A UK startup is launching a cryptocurrency exchange that comes with a debit card that lets users spend their bitcoin anywhere in the country.
15 November 2017
Canadians can now top up their Amazon accounts by handing over cash or debit cards at their local post offices.
14 November 2017
Visa is looking to accelerate the adoption of contactless payments on the world's subway, rail and bus networks through the launch of a dedicated transit programme.
13 November 2017
BNP Paribas is introducing WeChat Pay to retailers in France and subsequently across Europe, providing an opportunity for merchants to streamline the shopping experience for the 7.4 million Chinese tourists who visit the continent each year.
08 November 2017
Visa is to bring its real-time payments platform to market in Europe after experiencing strong growth in other key markets globally.
02 November 2017
Canadian debit network Interac has introduced support for Samsung Pay, enabling customers of participating banks to add their cards to the mobile wallet and make NFC payments.
01 November 2017
New York is finally ditching the old-fashioned MetroCard and following in London's footsteps by allowing subway users to pay for their journeys with contactless bank cards and mobile wallets such as Apple Pay.
27 October 2017
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has struck a deal with New Zealand's Vend to add inventory management, analytics and customer loyalty tools to its suite of proprietary Albert POS tablets.
18 October 2017
PayPal has announced that Venmo users will be able to use the popular mobile app at more than two million US high street retailers.
17 October 2017
A former senior security executive at Westpac has founded a firm that lets people put all of their cards on a single piece of plastic that generates one-time PINs for transactions.
10 October 2017
Germany's savings banks are planning a mass-market roll out of contactless mobile payments technology in 2018.
06 October 2017
Thailand and Singapore have announced tentative plans to integrate their respective e-payment schemes in a bid to promote digital banking, according to a Bloomberg report.
05 October 2017
Square is strengthening its presence in online commerce through a deal with Eventbrite which will see Jack Dorsey's firm process payments for, and make a $25 million investment in, the event ticketing outfit.
28 September 2017
Nearly two thirds of Brits want to be able to use a biometric scan to authorise payments in-store, according to a WorldPay survey.
22 September 2017
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is adding support for Android Pay and NFC payments through Garmin smartwatches, but iPhone users will continue to have to make do with contactless stickers.
18 September 2017
Dutch bank ING says that a contactless charity donation box trial has proved a big hit, resulting in the value of average donations more than doubling that seen with old fashioned cash collection tins.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay, mobile wallet adoption in the US and Europe is gaining traction, but Asia and Latin America continue to lead the way, according to a new report from ACI Worldwide and Aite.
05 September 2017
KFC has rolled out Alipay's facial recognition technology at a restaurant in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, enabling hungry patrons to pay for their chicken with a smile and their mobile phone number.
04 September 2017
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