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Gates Foundation launches challenge to boost mobile money acceptance

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is aiming to accelerate the adoption of digital payments in the developing world by offering grants to firms that make it easy for small merchants to accept mobile money.

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Weve abandons mobile NFC payments plans

UK mobile commerce joint venture Weve is abandoning plans to launch an NFC payments service because its telco owners failed to agree on an approach, according to the Telegraph.

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Home Depot confirms data breach

Home improvement chain Home Depot has finally confirmed that its payment data systems have been breached, putting the card details of tens of millions of US and Canadian customers at risk.

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Barclaycard and Orange close Quick Tap mobile NFC payments service

Barclaycard and Orange are to kill off their Quick Tap contactless mobile payment service at the end of next month.

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Isis becomes Softcard to avoid Islamic State association

Mobile money joint venture Isis has changed its name to Softcard in an effort to distance itself from the militant jihadist group operating in Iraq and Syria.

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BBVA mobile payments app racks up 250,000 Spanish downloads

Having proved itself a hit in Spain, the BBVA HCE-based mobile payments app is set to be launched in the US, Mexico and Chile by the end of the year.

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Cash is a pain in the ass: Blackpool donkey goes contactless

Blackpool's famous donkeys have made London's tube network look like an ass by beating it to the contactless payments punch.

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Google's Aussie chief rejects Wallet for 'more exciting' things

Google Wallet is not coming to Australia anytime soon, with the company's boss in the country declaring she has "more exciting" things to concentrate on.

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UPS becomes latest data breach victim

Package delivery giant UPS has become the latest company to admit that customer payment card details may be at risk after it discovered malware at 51 of its US stores.

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Square gets defensive about 'totally bogus' myths

With Amazon threatening to eat its lunch and rumours swirling about a lack of strategy and profits, Square has gone on the defensive with a blog post explaining why "myths" about Jack Dorsey's baby are "totally bogus".

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Life.Sreda leads SumUp funding round

European mPOS contender SumUp has closed a "double digit million dollar" series c financing round led by Russian fintech venture capital fund Life.Sreda.

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US supermarket chain Supervalu confirms network hit by 'criminal intrusion'

US supermarket chain Supervalu has become the latest retailer to admit that it has been hacked and that customer card data may have been stolen.

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Heartland buys mPOS outfit Leaf

Payment processing giant Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Leaf, a Boston-based mPOS start-up with its own purpose-built tablet. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Barclaycard takes bPay wristbands beyond payments

Barclaycard is bidding to increase the reach of its bPay contactless wristbands beyond payments by offering businesses customer behavioural data gleaned from the wearable devices.

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Amazon undercuts Square and PayPal with mPOS launch

Amazon has made its widely anticipated move into the crowded mPOS market, launching its dongle and app-based contender with an aggressive pricing strategy that undercuts both Square and PayPal.

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Russian pleads not guilty to POS hacking

A Russian man has pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges that he hacked into point-of-sale terminals and sold stolen card data on online forums.

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Visa token service key to Apple's mobile payments plans - analysts

Analysts at Pacific Crest Securities (PCS) have joined the Apple mobile payments guessing game, speculating that recent security moves by Visa will see the iPhone 6 go contactless.

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US govt warns retailers about new POS malware family

The US government has put out an alert warning retailers about a new family of malware, dubbed Backoff, targeting point-of-sale systems.

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Square gears up for US EMV switch with chip card reader

Square has unveiled plans to launch a chip and signature version of its mPOS dongle as it prepares for America's upcoming switch to EMV.

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Nintendo brings NFC payments to Wii U in Japan

Japanese gamers can now buy the latest titles on Nintendo's eShop by tapping their contactless payment cards against their Wii U controllers.