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Westpac NZ is to issue customers with NFC stickers that can be attached to phones for contactless payments of up to $80.
20 October 2014
US president Barack Obama has signed an executive order mandating the use of chip and PIN technology at executive departments and agencies for card payments.
17 October 2014
Nearly half of US merchant terminals will accept EMV chip card payments by the end of next year, according to a trade body set up to push the migration from magstripe plastic.
From early next year Chicagoans will be able to pay for their bus and train journeys through a mobile ticketing app, although NFC m-payments will not be an option until 2016.
Apple Pay will launch in the US on Monday, enabling Americans to use their iPhones to make payments at the likes of Target, Uber, Groupon, and Starbucks.
16 October 2014
The World Wide Web standards organisation, W3C, is bringing together banks, retailers and tech firms in an effort to develop standards for payments on the open web.
15 October 2014
American Express cardholders in the US can now pay for their Big Mac and fries in real time with reward points.
14 October 2014
ConCardis, a cashless payments outfit owned by a group of German banks, has led a $10 million series b funding round in iPad point-of-sales firm orderbird.
Japanese messaging giant Line has become the latest social media player to enter the payments market, unveiling a service for both online and in-store transactions.
13 October 2014
US discount chain Kmart has become the latest big ticket retailer to fall victim to a POS malware breach at its bricks and mortar stores.
A Russian man accused of hacking into point-of-sale terminals and selling stolen card data on online forums has had a batch of new charges thrown at him ahead of his trial in a US court next month.
10 October 2014
New Zealand banks ASB and BNZ are to participate in live pilot trials of a new national mobile wallet developed by NFS NZ, a joint venture company established by the country's leading mobile networks and bank-owned eftpos firm Paymark.
Forget mobile payments, many Canadians are ready to shop through their internet-enabled fridges and chips implanted in their fingers.
08 October 2014
VocaLink-backed mobile payment venture Zapp claims to have won the the largest coalition of retailer support for a new payment method ever announced in the UK, as leading brands representing a customer base of some 35 million people sign up ahead of a projected 2015 launch.
Square has raised $150 million in a funding round, led by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, that values the payments firm at $6 billion, according to the New York Times.
06 October 2014
Mobile handset manufacturer Samsung has partnered with China UnionPay to provide smartphone payment services to consumers in China.
03 October 2014
Some 324 restaurants across the United States have had card data swiped following a breach at POS manufacturer Signature Systems.
29 September 2014
US retail chain Home Depot says that 56 million payment cards are at risk following a malware-laden cyber-attack on eftpos tills across its stores in the US and Canada.
19 September 2014
India's Mahindra Comviva is partnering up with First Data to push its mPOS technology to the country's huge merchant community.
18 September 2014
BNP Paribas Fortis and SIX Payment Services are promising to bust the Bancontact/Mister Cash monopoly in Belgium by launching their own one-stop payments shop for merchants, covering everything from terminals to acquiring services.
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