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Amazon has launched a service that lets Americans top up their accounts by handing over cash at the physical locations of partner retailers.
03 April 2017
Commonwealth Bank of Australia says that its decision to move into the point-of-sale hardware market two years ago has proved a success, with more than 75,000 terminals operating across the country.
As the US finally made the switch to EMV chip cards, last year saw e-commerce fraud rates jump by 33%, according to data from Experian.
30 March 2017
The US Supreme Court has refused to revive a $5.7 billion class action settlement between millions of retailers and Visa and MasterCard over interchange fees.
27 March 2017
Samsung is bidding to expand NFC payments beyond phones to a host of wearable devices by teaming up with POS manufacturer Ingenico and app developer Smartlink to launch the Contactless Companion Platform (CCP).
24 March 2017
The group of Australian banks fighting it out with Apple for access to the iPhone's near-field communication function say that it is "unrealistic" to expect them to settle for Android Pay and non-NFC alternatives.
16 March 2017
Samsung's new Galaxy S8 flagship handset will use facial-recognition technology to verify payments, according to Bloomberg.
Britain will finally be cashless by 2043, at least that's what an online casino is betting after examining paper money's form.
14 March 2017
A Chicago startup has built a biometrics-based payments system that lets people make purchases by holding their hands over a scanner at the point-of-sale.
10 March 2017
Watchmaker Movado has partnered with Google on a collection powered by Android Wear 2.0 that will, among other things, let wearers make payments with a flick of their wrists.
09 March 2017
Point-of-sale terminal maker Verifone is investigating an internal network breach that may have affected several firms using its hardware, according to the Krebs on Security blog.
08 March 2017
Crooks in the US are targeting Ingenico card readers at shop self-checkout lanes, placing overlay skimming devices on the machines to steal data and PINs.
03 March 2017
Hurried workers grabbing lunch on the go and relaxing with an end-of-day pint are behind rising UK mobile contactless payment numbers, according to Worldpay.
28 February 2017
After a weekend which saw many Barclays customers unable to make instore payments and ATM withdrawals, today it was the turn of HSBC business banking clients to suffer, locked out of their accounts online.
27 February 2017
A government sponsored quick response(QR)code-based payment service, IndiaQR, has launched today in India, heralding the next major step in its ambition to be a cashless society.
20 February 2017
IBM has struck a deal with Visa which will give all of Big Blue's Watson IoT platform customers access to the card giant's payment services, potentially turning billions of cars, fridges, sneakers and other connected devices into points of sale.
16 February 2017
SIX Payment Services has issued a SIM-based virtual credit card for making mobile payments in Austria.
03 February 2017
After a 10 month pilot, Google is ditching its Hands Free payments app, which let users leave their wallets and phones in their pockets and pay just by talking.
Qvivr, a US startup promising to replace the credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards in customers' wallets with a single card and app combo, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.
01 February 2017
Korea's Central Bank has outlined plans to pursue a 'coinless society' project by piloting a service that allows customers to receive small change from merchants as a top-up onto a pre-paid card.
10 January 2017
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