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Australia's competition watchdog is to allow card schemes and banks to work together to replace the use of signatures at the check-out with Chip and PIN authorisation for payments.
11 October 2013
In its latest bid to conquer the high street, PayPal has unveiled a feature that lets customers make in-store payments using a QR code or passcode generated by an app on their phones.
08 October 2013
A new association designed to promote interoperable card-linked customer offers has been set up by industry players including Microsoft, Bank of America, Discover, Facebook and First Data.
07 October 2013
Aussie debit card system eftpos has called in US firm FIS to build a new centralised payments hub to help usher in new contactless and mobile technologies.
02 October 2013
Leaf, a Boston-based mPOS start-up with its own purpose-built tablet, has scored $20 million in funding from processing giant Heartland Payment Systems.
01 October 2013
Intuit has moved to make it easier for small businesses to import their transactions from Square point-of-sale products into its QuickBooks accounting software.
25 September 2013
Italian bank UniCredit has teamed up with First Data to test a QR code-based mobile payments service.
24 September 2013
Point-of-sale terminal manufacturer VeriFone has appointed Citi payments executive Paul Galant chief executive officer.
Google has finally launched an NFC-less version of its mobile Wallet app for Apple's iPhone.
19 September 2013
A collection of heavyweight banks, card firms and telcos have joined forces in Austria to build an open, nation-wide standard for NFC-based mobile wallets.
Germany's Volkswagen Bank and Visa Europe are handing out plastic NFC-enabled iPhone cases to 500 customers for a contactless mobile payments trial.
18 September 2013
Taking advantage of Apple's decision to embrace Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), US start-up Estimote has been showing off its Beacon technology, which allows retailers to communicate and interact with customers in-store.
12 September 2013
Zapp has struck a deal with WorldPay that will see its mobile payments system made available to thousands of merchants, including big names such as WH Smith and McDonald's, from next year.
Continuing its mission to re-invent the high street shopping experience, PayPal has unveiled Beacon, a Bluetooth plug-in for merchants that automatically checks in consumers for hands-free cashless payments at the point-of-sale.
10 September 2013
SmartPass, the mobile contactless payments service developed by telco giant Vodafone with Visa will make its debut in Spain by the end of year ahead of a wider rollout.
04 September 2013
MasterCard has struck a deal with Blue Label Telecoms to bring point-of-sale devices to 22,000 small traders and rural shops across South Africa.
03 September 2013
Banco Santander and telco Movistar Chile have brought in Oberthur Technologies as their trusted services manager (TSM) for a mobile NFC payments project.
02 September 2013
Artist Heidi Hinder has developed wearable technology that allows its users to transmit money using physical gestures - hugs, high-fives, handshakes and even tap dancing.
30 August 2013
Spain's CaixaBank has jumped on the mPOS bandwagon, teaming up with Global Payments on an app and chip and PIN-based system for accepting card transactions.
29 August 2013
Telco Telefónica is set to pilot an app and card reader-based mobile point-of-sale system that supports NFC payments in the Czech Republic.
28 August 2013
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