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Zapp, the British mobile commerce company recently set up by VocaLink, has called in Oracle to help build its technology platform.
17 July 2013
After years of pilot trials and road tests, French bank Société Générale is set to launch its first national commercial application of NFC-based mobile payments.
16 July 2013
Finnish start-up Uniqul is bidding to make wallets - leather and mobile - a thing of the past through a biometrics system that lets customers pay with their faces.
15 July 2013
Card scheme China UnionPay has signed up eight banks for the launch of its contactless mobile payments system, Wallet, in Shanghai.
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), the mobile commerce joint venture put together by some of America's biggest retailers, has selected FIS for the provision of payment processing, routing and settlement.
11 July 2013
A consortium of three Hungarian telcos, a local bank and MasterCard have joined forces to pilot a contactless mobile payments system.
Mobile point-of sale-outfit SumUp has set its sights on the South American market after securing investment from banking giant BBVA.
09 July 2013
The Clearing House (TCH) is working with America's biggest banks on an industry-wide "dynamic credentialing" system that will improve the safety of digital payments.
02 July 2013
Should we prepare ourselves for a cashless future? Not according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), which is ready to ward off any large scale attempts by card schemes and retailers to abandon notes and coins in favour of plastic and electronic payments.
28 June 2013
WorldPay has secured a deal which will see British department store chain John Lewis sell its new Mpos chip and PIN device.
27 June 2013
Lloyds has become the first UK bank to muscle in on the mobile point-of-sale market, inking a deal with Monitise to hawk the vendor's card acceptance technology to small business customers.
26 June 2013
MasterCard has teamed up with the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and telco Etisalat to launch what it claims is the first ever Arabic mobile money service.
25 June 2013
VocaLink has formed a new company, called Zapp, to build a service that will let Brits link their bank accounts to their mobile phone numbers and make real-time payments through their handsets.
24 June 2013
Kuwait International Bank and McDonald's are preparing to launch a mobile payments pilot using technology from Swedish outfit Seamless.
17 June 2013
Greater Manchester's transport chiefs have taken the 'it does what it says on the tin' approach to naming the city's new smart ticketing system, calling it the Get Me There.
Coffee chain Starbucks has become the latest major UK high street player to complete a large-scale roll out of contactless payments terminals.
The ongoing battle between card schemes and US merchants over interchange fees has escalated, with news that Visa is to sue the nation's largest retailer Wal-Mart over its rejection of a previously negotiated $7.2 billion class action interchange settlement.
14 June 2013
Mobile banking professionals from around the world gathered in Barcelona on Tuesday for a day of networking and debate at the second annual MobeyDay. Finextra liveblogged events here.
11 June 2013
Research from Finextra finds that banks around the world are looking to discounted offers and big data analytics to beat off the competition from telcos and tech start-ups as they battle for control of the consumer mobile wallet.
10 June 2013
MasterCard is to expand its PayPass footprint in Japan with a pledge to deploy 410,000 contactless terminals throughout the country over the next three years.
06 June 2013
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