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Canada's suretap has become the latest telco-led mobile wallet venture to go to the wall, with the outfit deciding that it cannot compete in an increasingly crowded field.
18 July 2016
Forget Apple Pay, the cool new way to get around on London's Underground is to tap your contactless fingernails.
15 July 2016
More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.
14 July 2016
The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.
Transport for London (TfL) has struck a multi-million pound licensing deal that will see the technology behind its contactless payments system used in other cities around the world.
13 July 2016
Visa is using the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio to push wearable payments into the mainstream, unveiling contactless watches, bracelets and rings.
12 July 2016
Cops in Europe and Malaysia have arrested 105 people accused of participation in a massive organised criminal enterprise that made counterfeit credit cards that were used to buy high-value goods worth millions of euros.
08 July 2016
NEC has embarked on trials of 'cashless payment services' using facial recognition technology to verify consumer identities at small shops located inside its head office building in Tokyo.
Barclaycard is expanding its bPay contactless payments range through the introduction of a small case that can be attached to watches and fitness bands.
07 July 2016
The prevalence of mobile banking in Europe is soaring, with nearly half of phone owners now managing their finances through their handsets, new research commissioned by ING suggests.
ING and Belgian bank KBC have joined forces to launch an integrated mobile payments and loyalty platform in Belgium, combining the Dutch bank's payment app Payconiq with loyalty platforms Qustomer and KBC’s CityLife.
06 July 2016
The strained relationship between Visa and Walmart is reaching breaking point as the card scheme files a lawsuit against the supermarket chain for allegedly reneging on an agreement to allow the use of signature verification alongside Chip and PIN for transactions at the till.
30 June 2016
Danish local and regional banks have banded together to launch a national HCE mobile wallet.
US supermarket chain Kroger has filed a lawsuit against Visa over a disagreement about using PINs to verify EMV debit card transactions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
27 June 2016
Italian payments processor SIA is extending its Jiffy mobile person-to-person money transfer service to in-store payments.
22 June 2016
Following the lead of Apple, Google and Samsung, Microsoft is bringing contactless payments to Windows 10 mobile phones.
21 June 2016
Visa Inc has completed its acquisition of Visa Europe, creating a combined global company serving 17,100 financial institutions and partners, more than 40 million merchant outlets, and 3 billion card accounts worldwide.
Home Depot, the US retail chain that saw 56 million accounts hacked in 2014, is suing Visa and MasterCard over their failure to mandate more secure Chip and PIN technology at the checkout during the country's migration to EMV-based payments.
16 June 2016
The turbulent relationship between North America's largest retail supermarket chain and the card schemes has reached a new nadir, with a decision by Walmart to refuse to accept Visa credit cards in its 370 stores across Canada.
13 June 2016
Fast food chain Wendy's is warning that a previously reported malware attack on franchisee-owned restaurant POS systems is "considerably" bigger than first thought.
10 June 2016
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