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MasterCard has signed its largest-ever deal for Masterpass, snagging an agreement with the Ecobank Group for the roll out of its QR code-based mobile payment service across 33 African countries.
20 October 2016
A pair of mobile payment services backed by two of France's biggest banks - BNP Paribas and Crédit Mutuel - are merging.
The number of North Americans using their mobile phones for payments at the point of sale has remained flat over the last year, despite growing awareness of the technology and a drop off in the popularity of cash, according to a survey from Accenture.
19 October 2016
India's Yes Bank has unveiled a point-of-sale device that uses iris scanning technology as well as the country's Aadhaar biometric ID system to authenticate purchases.
17 October 2016
Crooks have injected malicious code into 5925 online stores, enabling them to steal payment card details, according to a Dutch developer.
14 October 2016
Nordea is abandoning Swipp, the Danish mobile payments JV it runs with local banks, and hitching its wagon to rival Danske Bank's MobilePay service.
13 October 2016
In its latest salvo against notes and coins, MasterCard has posted research showing that 44% of Brits would ditch cash altogether if card payments were accepted everywhere.
07 October 2016
A group of German banks are looking to sell their Concardis payments unit in a deal that could be worth up to EUR500 million, according to Reuters.
06 October 2016
A year after the official launch of chip payment technology in the US, Visa is claiming steady progress, with the country already its largest EMV card market and fraud rates falling sharply.
30 September 2016
Mastercard is opening up to developers through the launch of a single gateway to a host of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) covering payments, data, security and 'new and experimental' areas such as virtual reality.
28 September 2016
Square has moved to address merchant and consumer frustration with sluggish EMV transactions in the US by slashing the speed of its chip card reader by a quarter. Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey's firm has launched the latest version of its hardware - which accepts contactless payments - in Australia.
27 September 2016
IBM and China UnioPpay have demonstrated a blockchain prototype for loyalty bonus points exchange among multiple banks.
23 September 2016
Barclaycard is embedding its bPay contactless payments technology within personalised protective smartphone cases.
15 September 2016
Visa is teaming up with several Kenyan banks on a service that aims to break M-Pesa's stranglehold on the country's mobile payments market.
13 September 2016
Visa is hoping to bring a little Hollywood glamour to the world of payments, using the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as a showcase for its latest technology.
12 September 2016
Apple Pay is adding support for the Felica contactless RFID technology in preparation for its launch in Japan at the end of next month.
07 September 2016
Swedish mPOS vendor iZettle has made its first acquisition, buying Scottish startup intelligentpos for an undisclosed sum.
Following a similar agreement with Visa, PayPal has struck a deal with MasterCard that will help the e-commerce specialist step up its attack on the bricks-and mortar market.
06 September 2016
Shares in French eftpos terminal supplier Ingenico slumped in early morning trading after the firm revised revenue guidance due to a "sudden and significant decline" in US sales.
Alipay's advance into Europe is getting a boost from Germany's Wirecard, which has developed a mobile app with which retailers can accept and process Alipay payments through a QR code scan.
02 September 2016
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