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US startup PureWrist is seeking to raise $20,000 on IndieGogo to begin live production of a contactless, wearable payment bracelet
12 June 2015
Cyber-criminals are using a new strain of malware to target point-of-sales system running a type of Oracle software popular with US firms in the hospitality industry, warns security outfit Trend Micro.
10 June 2015
The day after it emerged that Apple Pay is on its way to the UK, local rival Zapp has sought to grab some of the limelight by unveiling its new 'Pay by Bank app' consumer brand.
09 June 2015
Apple Pay will launch in the UK in July, with eight of the country's biggest banks, a host of merchants, and Transport for London all on-board.
08 June 2015
In the aftermath of Android Pay's launch, Samsung has put back the introduction of its own mobile payments service until September.
05 June 2015
The investment arm of US mobile network operator Verizon has confirmed that it has taken a stake in Host Card Emulation specialist SimplyTapp.
04 June 2015
Smart devices are on track to replace cash and cards as UK mobile payments are projected to hit over £1.2bn a week by 2020, according to research by Visa Europe.
Brits spent more than £600 billion on cards last year, with the number of purchases made with plastic soaring thanks in part to the rapidly growing popularity of contactless payments.
The legal fallout from Home Depot's data breach continues, with the retail giant asking a court to dismiss a consolidated class action lawsuit filed by consumers just as a collection of financial institutions launch their own suit.
02 June 2015
It may have only launched Android Pay last week but Google is already looking for the next big thing in payments, teasing a "hands free" service that will be piloted later this year.
01 June 2015
Having seen its Wallet service fail to take off, Google is aiming another shot at the fast-growing mobile payments market with the launch of Android Pay.
28 May 2015
Denmark's Danske Bank is boosting its popular MobilePay app by integrating technology from m-commerce vendor Powa which will give customers more global buying options.
26 May 2015
Mobile payments company Square is to open its fourth global hub in Melbourne, Australia, to drive sales of its Register tablet POS.
21 May 2015
American retail behemoth Wal-Mart is working with Chinese web firm Alibaba to enable shoppers at its stores in Shenzhen pay with their mobile phones.
14 May 2015
Mobile network operator Airtel has teamed up with Verifone Mobile Money to bring contactless m-payments to Ghana.
11 May 2015
Denmark's government is planning to help usher in the long-awaited cashless society by giving restaurants and some shops the option to refuse notes and coins.
07 May 2015
America will have finally completed the shift to EMV chip cards by the end of 2017, according to a trade body set up to push the migration from magstripe plastic.
04 May 2015
US retail payments consortium MCX is appointing a new CEO just one day after founder member Best Buy announced that it would begin accepting Apple Pay in its stores from the summer.
29 April 2015
SIX, UBS and Zürcher Kantonalbank are to launch a new P2P payment app, Paymit, that enables users to to request and make payment transfers by smartphone across Switzerland from the end of May.
28 April 2015
MCX, a Walmart-led competitor to Apple Pay, has suffered a big blow with the news that consortium member Best Buy is to begin accepting payments from iPhone-touting consumers in the summer.
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