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Barclays glitch leaves customers unable to use debit cards

Barclays faced a social media barrage on Friday after "technical issues" left UK customers unable to make card payments or ATM withdrawals.

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Apple Pay coming to Australia and Canada

Apple Pay is coming to Canada and Australia later this year thanks to a tie-up with American Express.

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MasterCard bids to make everything a payment device

MasterCard is looking beyond cards and mobile phones, launching a programme that will let partner firms turn anything from purses to keyfobs to jewellery in contactless payments devices.

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Chase partners MCX to take on Apple and Google in mobile wallet battle

JPMorgan Chase has signed up retailer consortium MCX as a partner for Chase Pay, its new digital wallet leading the fight back against tech giants Apple, Google and Samsung in the increasingly crowded mobile money arena.

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JP Morgan Chase replaces Square as Starbucks processor

JPMorgan Chase has struck a payments processing deal with Starbucks, replacing Square, which recently revealed that its contract with the coffee giant was a massive loss-maker.

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Researchers reveal chip and PIN hack

Forensic researchers from France have called a scam that saw thieves embed two chips in a payment card to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack "the most sophisticated smart card fraud encountered to date".

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North American mobile payments usage stagnates

Apple and Google may have boosted awareness of mobile payments in North America over the last year, but actual usage has remained flat, according to a survey from Accenture.

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UK set to make 120 million payments a day by 2024

Brits will make 120 million payments a day by 2024, as a steep decline in the use of cash is offset by the rise of contactless cards and the Faster Payments service, predicts an industry trade association.

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Swatch launches pay-by-wrist watch in China

Swatch has teamed up with China UnionPay and Bank of Communications to introduce a watch with inbuilt contactless payments functionality.

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MasterCard brings Safety Net hacker-fighting tool to Europe

MasterCard has brought its Safety Net technology, which taps into the card giant's global network to help protect banks and payment processors from hackers, to Europe.

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Square files for IPO

Jack Dorsey's payments startup Square has filed for an initial public offering as it prepares to list on the New York Stock Exchange.

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America's Thrift Stores reports card data breach

Charity shop chain America's Thrift Stores has become the latest hacking victim after crooks planted malware at a third-party service provider and stole payment card numbers.

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Trademark applications stoke LG mobile payments rumours

Rumours are swirling that LG is preparing to take on Apple, Google and Samsung in the mobile payments arena after it emerged that the South Korean electronics giant has filed trademarks for 'GPay'.

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Apple Pay to get caffeine boost from Starbucks

Apple Pay will soon be accepted at Starbucks coffee stores, with support from fast food chains KFC and Chilis in the wings.

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China and India drive non-cash payments growth

Global non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly nine per cent in 2014, as massive emerging markets such as China and India begin to go electronic and mobile money takes off in developed countries, according to the latest annual World Payments Report from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Dorsey stays on at Square despite becoming Twitter CEO

Jack Dorsey has confirmed that he will stay on as CEO of Square, despite taking on the same role at the other multi-billion dollar company he co-founded, Twitter.

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Payments firm Adyen scores funding at $2.3bn valuation

An investment fund backed by some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, has put money into Adyen in a deal that sees the Dutch payments processing firm valued at $2.3 billion.

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US gears up for EMV switch deadline

Despite the fact that the majority of Americans still do not have EMV payment cards ahead of tomorrow's deadline for a switch from magstripe, an industry taskforce insists that the migration is "on track".

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Digicash integrates payments and loyalty accounts for mobile top-ups

Shoppers at Luxembourg supermarket chain Auchan will soon be able to top-up their loyalty points at the checkout using bluetooth and NFC beacons, in the latest iteration of the Digicash mobile payments scheme.

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Samsung Pay lands in the US

Buoyed by a strong start in Korea, consumer electronics giant Samsung has launched its mobile payments service in the US, with support from the three major card schemes and banking giants Citi, Bank of America and US Bank.