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This Christmas drinkers in one London pub will be spared the ritual of frantically waving £20 notes at bar staff in an effort to grab their attention, thanks to a self-service beer pump with built-in contactless payment capabilities.
16 December 2016
The rise of mobile and contactless payments means that by 2026 cash will account for less than a quarter of all transactions in the US, according to research from law firm Paul Hastings and the Centre for Economics & Business Research (Cebr).
15 December 2016
South Africa's Standard Bank has bought a majority stake in Firepay, the local startup behind popular QR code-based mobile payments service SnapScan. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
13 December 2016
Another Belgian bank, Belfius has joined ING and KBC in contributing towards the roll out of an integrated mobile payments and loyalty platform based on the Dutch bank's payment app Payconiq.
08 December 2016
Digital loyalty startup Bink has secured £2 million in financing from angel investors, bringing total funding to over £10 million.
Alipay's advance into European markets shows no sign of slowing down as SIX Payment Services becomes the latest terminal vendor to add support for the popular Chinese mobile app. The company has also signed deals with BNP Paribas, Barclays and UniCredit.
06 December 2016
Google is playing Santa over the holidays, hoping to win converts to its Android Pay service by rewarding Brits who use it with virtual Christmas crackers filled with prizes.
American Express is bringing contactless mobile payments to Canadian cardholders with Android devices.
30 November 2016
The movement to turn every object on the planet into a contactless payment device continues with Australian telco Optus sticking an NFC chip in coffee cups.
18 November 2016
A payments startup is looking to cash in on America's weed revolution, launching a debit payment solution specifically designed for the cannabis industry.
17 November 2016
With contactless payments becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world, more than 16 million NFC-ready POS terminals will ship this year, according to Berg Insight.
16 November 2016
Citibank is taking a leaf out of rival Chase's playbook with the launch of a closed loop mobile wallet dubbed Citi Pay.
10 November 2016
Only a quarter of UK millennials are using mobile payments technology, according to research from VocaLink, the latest in a long line of tech firms trying to figure out how young people want to pay.
03 November 2016
Despite the rise of ecommerce, Britain's high street looks set to endure, with two thirds of shoppers still preferring to view valuable products in person before buying, according to a Barclays survey.
02 November 2016
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a reciprocal deal with Ant Financial to open access to Alibaba e-commerce Websites for Australian consumers and businesses and provide Alipay payments for Chinese tourists through its Albert POS devices.
31 October 2016
India's YES Bank has deployed the ToneTag software development kit to enable payments via soundwaves over its YES Pay mobile wallet.
28 October 2016
NanoPay, a Canadian payments outfit which now owns the MintChip cloud-based digital currency, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round joined by Goldman Sachs.
26 October 2016
One year after launching, Samsung Pay has cut a deal with MasterCard to expand to online payments and announced a roll out to three new markets.
Ingenico has developed technology that lets people make online payments by tapping a payment card against an NFC-enabled mobile phone.
Chinese payments behemoth Alipay is moving in to the US market through deals struck with Eftpos terminal suppliers First Data and Verifone.
25 October 2016
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