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Visa has signed a host of mobile point-of-sale outfits - including iZettle and SumUp - to its 'Visa Ready Program', giving them the opportunity to secure its seal of approval and gain access to a range of tools.
05 June 2013
Dutch vendor Bell ID has launched a cloud-based secure element for the provisioning of mobile NFC services, eliminating the need for hardware within the handset.
The worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will soar this year, up 44% on 2012, according to Gartner. However, the research house has slashed its expectations for NFC, which continues to struggle to pick up momentum.
04 June 2013
MasterCard has begun working with Chunghwa Telecom and Cathay United Bank on a mobile NFC payments service in Taiwan.
03 June 2013
As digital alternatives grew in popularity, Brits did 10% less of their shopping last year with cash, although it continued to be the country's most popular payment method.
30 May 2013
Russian network operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has selected Gemalto's UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing system in the city of Novosibirsk.
29 May 2013
Visa and MasterCard have issued a retaliatory law-suit aginst trade associations and retailers that have rejected a $7.2 billion class action interchange settlement.
28 May 2013
With $1.5 million in funding secured, Clip, a Square clone targeting the Spanish-speaking world, is preparing to launch in Mexico.
The Mobile POS market will surpass $2 billion in hardware/software sales in North America in 2013, and 28% of North American retailers plan to adopt Mobile POS in some form by the end of 2013, according to research from IHL Group
22 May 2013
With its mobile wallet struggling to gain traction on the high street, Google is to use its extensive Web assets to spur uptake, announcing a new payments API for Chrome browsers and the ability to send money as a Gmail attachment.
16 May 2013
The battle for control of the merchant cash register has stepped up a gear with Square launching an iPad point-of-sale device and PayPal promising limited free payments processing to retailers that junk their old shopping tills in exchange for a feature rich iPad equivalent.
15 May 2013
Eftpos Australia says it will begin mobile payments trials with selected Australian retailers in the next few months.
14 May 2013
Monitise has jumped on the mobile point-of-sale bandwagon, launching a white-labelled service for banks, mobile operators and acquirers to offer their business customers.
CIBC in Canada has expanded support for its mobile payments app from BlackBerry-only to Android devices, as wireless partner Rogers receives approval to incorporate as a bank.
10 May 2013
The head of Google Wallet, Osama Bedier, has quit after two years in the job during which the mobile payments operation has failed to take off.
09 May 2013
Around one in seven card payments of under £20 are now contactless at UK retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S), which is processing more than 230,000 tap and pay transactions every week.
07 May 2013
German cooperative bank Dortmunder Volksbank is introducing a contactless mobile payments system that taps Telefónica's O2Wallet.
29 April 2013
The ongoing debate over the economic benefits of a mass-market migration to EMV chip cards in the US has heated up, with US retailers and a senior Fed staffer raising red flags over the anticipated impact on fraud levels.
26 April 2013
Nintendo could soon take advantage of the Wii U's built-in NFC capability to let people make game-related payments by tapping a contactless card against the console's controller.
Airline Virgin Australia has teamed up with Visa to add a pre-paid travel money card that can be loaded with multiple currencies to its frequent flyer membership scheme.
19 April 2013
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