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Contactless payments to arrive on London's Tube in September

Londoners will soon be able to pay for journeys on the tube, DLR and overground with their contactless bank cards and mobile phones.

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Apple talking to Visa about mobile payments - report

Apple is in talks with Visa as it ponders launching a mobile wallet this autumn, according to tech site The Information.

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Ex-Google Wallet boss Bedier becomes PayRange director

Former Google Wallet chief Osama Bedier has turned up as a director at PayRange, a startup that builds dongles that can be attached to vending machines to enable them to accept mobile payments.

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Westpac NZ trials HCE-based mobile contactless payments

Westpac has become the first bank in New Zealand to trial a host card emulation-based mobile NFC payments service.

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London cabbie ditches cash for Pingit (for one week)

A London cabbie is promising to talk customers out of cash payments this week and accept fares from passengers who pay using the Barclays Pingit mobile app.

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Oz credit union rolls out HCE-based mobile NFC payments service

Australian credit union CUA has teamed up with vendor Cuscal to launch a host card emulation-based mobile NFC payments service.

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Botnet takes advantage of weak passwords to hack POS systems

Security firm FireEye says it has discovered a botnet that is sniffing out point-of-sale systems and using brute force techniques to hack them and steal card data.

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Isis mobile wallet ditches name to avoid jihadist confusion

Mobile money joint venture Isis is changing its name in a bid to shed any associations with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria jihadist group.

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Bankia unveils mobile wallet

Spain's Bankia has launched a sticker and app-based mobile contactless payments service.

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London buses go cashless

London buses have stopped accepting cash fares in a move that Transport for London (TfL) says will save £24 million a year.

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CaixaBank to roll out contactless wristbands

CaixaBank is to distribute 15,000 contactless wristbands to customers over the summer, staking a claim to being the largest wearable payments programme in Europe.

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BBVA introduces HCE-based mobile NFC payments

Spain's BBVA has become the first major global bank to commercially launch a host card emulation-based mobile contactless payments service.

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Telecom Italia to distribute payleven card readers as country cracks down on cash economy

Telecom Italia is to equip small business customers with mPOS chip card readers from payleven as the country enacts new legislation requiring firms to accept debit card payments for any transaction over EUR30.

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US banks going full-tilt for EMV in wake of Target breach

Spurred on by the fall-out from last year's Target data breach, 86% of US financial institutions plan to begin issuing EMV-based chip cards within the next two years, according to the annual debit issuer report from Pulse.

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Weve CEO Sear quits

Telco-owned UK mobile commerce joint venture Weve has lost chief executive officer David Sear, who has quit for a new job.

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MasterCard brings mPOS payments to Vietnam's Ben Thanh market

MasterCard has teamed up with Vietnam's Sacombank to bring card payments to Ho Chi Minh City's iconic Ben Thanh market for the first time.

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Brixton Pound gets mobile app and iBeacon push

The Brixton Pound is getting its own app, tapping iBeacon technology to let shoppers make purchases in the local currency through their iPhones.

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Manchester street goes cashless

A Manchester street will provide a glimpse into a cashless future tomorrow when its merchants ban notes and coins for one day.

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AT&T taps CorFire for NFC services

US telco giant AT&T has enlisted mobile commerce firm CorFire to help it deliver non-payment related NFC services to customers.

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LevelUp adds iBeacon support to mobile payments platform

QR code-based mobile payments firm LevelUp is integrating support for Apple's iBeacon after testing showed that pushing instore offers through the technology significantly increased sales.