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Barclaycard is adding a touch of bling to contactless payments, teaming up with high street fashion retailer Topshop on a range of NFC-enabled bracelets, phone cases and keychains.
10 June 2016
Britain's love affair with plastic continues to grow, with rising online and contactless transactions driving spending on debit and credit cards up 10% to £660 billion in 2015.
JPMorgan Chase has stepped on the gas as it bids to win the mobile payments race, inking a multi-year deal with Shell that will see Chase Pay accepted at stations across the US.
09 June 2016
The slow death of retailer-led mobile payments consortium MCX continues with news that the outfit is ending its CurrentC app's beta test and shutting down all accounts.
08 June 2016
Millions of Australian banking customers were unable to access ATM and Eftpos services on Sunday after severe storms on the east coast caused widespread damage, including a major outage at a cloud computing service used by several banks.
06 June 2016
Smartwatch maker Mobvoi has teamed up with China UnionPay and Oberthur Technologies (OT) to add contactless payments to its timepiece.
Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsor Visa is handing out NFC-enabled rings to favoured athletes competing in Rio this summer, enabling them to make payments around the city with a tap of the finger.
03 June 2016
Eurobank Poland is looking to capitalise on the nation's love affair with contactless payments by launching an Android-based mobile payments service.
25 May 2016
Five major banks, representing 80% of Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards issued in Singapore, have signed up to Apple Pay, extending the use of the mobile wallet beyond a limited earlier release for AmEx cardholders.
Wells Fargo has built a new mobile wallet that enables customers to carry out NFC-based in-store payments as well as ATM transactions with their Android handsets.
24 May 2016
Spotty teenagers could soon be losing their jobs to robots thanks to a tie up between MasterCard, Pizza Hut and Softbank that will see humanoids take orders and mobile-based payments at some Asian fast food joints.
Animal welfare charity Blue Cross has enlisted some four-legged fundraisers, kitting out dogs with coats featuring contactless terminals so that Brits can make donations with a 'pat and tap'.
20 May 2016
UK acquirers in future will have to provide retailers with more clarity around the applicable interchange fee and scheme fees for each category and brand of payment cards, according to new draft guidance from the UK's Payments Systems Regulator (PSR)
19 May 2016
Spending on contactless cards has reached a record £1.5 billion in a month for the first time, according to data from the UK Cards Association.
Samsung Pay has fired the latest salvo in the mobile wallet wars, adding support for membership and loyalty cards in the US.
18 May 2016
Thirsty joggers could soon be buying their bottles of water with their Fitbits after the activity tracking company bought the wearable payments assets of Coin. Financial terms of the deal - which marks the end of the road for Coin - were not disclosed.
Google's Android Pay has launched in the UK, enabling millions of Brits to make contactless instore and in-app payments with their handsets.
American retail giant Walmart has begun the rollout of its mobile payments service, introducing its Apple Pay rival to nearly 600 stores in Texas and Arkansas.
16 May 2016
Barclays Bank is to roll out a stand-alone contactless payment service for Android phone users ahead of the forthcoming launch of Google's Android Pay service in the UK.
12 May 2016
Visa's insistence that chip card holders in the US can continue to pay with a signature at the checkout has landed it in hot water with Wal-Mart, which is suing the card scheme over its failure to mandate the use of Chip and PIN payments.
11 May 2016
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