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Starbucks adds Square readers to menu

Square is taking advantage of its relationship with Starbucks by selling its mobile credit card readers in the coffee chain's 7000 US outlets.

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Vatican card payments suspended over AML concerns - reports

The Bank of Italy has suspended all card payments in the Vatican until further notice over a failure to implement anti-money laundering law, according to local press reports.

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Canadian m-payments group embed NFC tag in magazine ad

Canadian bank CIBC, telco Rogers and handset maker RIM are running a print magazine ad featuring embedded NFC in a bid to promote the technology and its use in their new mobile payments service.

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New Year celebrations delayed by Lloyds ATM failure

New Year's celebrations got off to a rocky start for thousands of Brits on Monday thanks to a glitch at Lloyds Banking Group which left customers unable to withdraw cash from ATMs.

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PayPal forecasts an NFC-free revolution on the high street

PayPal president David Marcus is forecasting a year of disruption in the shopping and payment space in 2013, but insists that NFC technology will not play a part in the upheavals.

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VeriFone stops trying to sell Sail to merchants

VeriFone has given up trying to sell Sail, its app and dongle-based system for turning smartphones into card acceptance devices, directly to merchants and will instead offer the technology to banks.

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Bank cards on buses will save Londoners time and money - MasterCard

As Londoners begin paying for bus journeys using their contactless bank cards this week, MasterCard claims that by ditching their Oyster cards commuters could save a day's worth of queuing every year.

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Americans see smartphone payments replacing cards and cash, eventually

Most Americans think mobile phone payments will eventually replace cash and cards at the checkout, but few expect it to happen within the next five years, according to a poll from Harris Interactive.

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Lack of retailer support hindering UK contactless take up - ICM

Despite the fact that most Brits are now au fait with contactless technology, few ever use their tap and pay cards and retailers are doing little to encourage take up, according to ICM Research.

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Cardfree unveils mobile merchant platform

With $10 million in funding behind them, a group of Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts m-commerce veterans have teamed up to launch Cardfree, a provider of white-label mobile merchant platforms.

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Square adds gift cards to Wallet app

With Christmas approaching, Square has added a virtual gift card feature to its Wallet app, enabling users to send and receive funds that can be spent at specific retailers.

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London buses to start accepting contactless bank cards

From Thursday, Londoners will be able to pay for some bus journeys using their contactless bank cards.

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MasterCard launches rePower cash-to-emoney service in the UK

MasterCard has launched its rePower service, which lets people convert their cash into electronic money on a pre-paid account, in the UK.

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PayPal Here gets Japanese competition

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has become the latest firm to jump on the app and dongle-based mobile card acceptance bandwagon.

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La Caixa to distribute 200,000 contactless stickers

Spanish bank la Caixa is to roll out a new contactless payment system in Barcelona, based on TAP Visa stickers for mobile devices. The bank forecasts that 200,000 customers will be using the system by February, when the Mobile World Congress 2013 will be held.

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Intuit pilots UK chip and PIN mobile card reader

Intuit has begun piloting a tweaked, chip and PIN version of its GoPayment mobile credit card processing app and hardware in the UK.

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China Unicom launches NFC mobile wallet in Shanghai

Telco China Unicom and China Merchants Bank (CMB) are preparing to launch an NFC-based mobile wallet in Shanghai next month ahead of a national roll out.

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MasterCard and Absa launch dual debit-credit card with built-in display

South Africa's Absa and MasterCard have unveiled a dual contactless debit and credit card which also includes a display screen for passcodes that secure online payments.

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Danish telcos join forces on mobile payments

Denmark's four network operators have set up a company to develop a common platform for mobile payments in the country.

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Vodafone and Visa prep Oz contactless mobile payments

Wireless operator Vodafone and card giant Visa have unveiled the SmartPass contactless mobile payments system that they will launch in Australia next year.