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Wireless carrier Orange has teamed with mBank and MasterCard for the commercial launch of a mobile contactless payments service in POland.
17 October 2012
Square has pulled the plug on a pilot with New York taxi drivers so it can overhaul its iPad-based card payments system to meet new rules.
16 October 2012
Mobile taxi hailing outfit cab:app has teamed up with MasterCard unit DataCash to let drivers accept payments through their handsets.
11 October 2012
Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo and South Korean contemporary KT Corporation have firmed up plans to enable their customers to make NFC mobile payments in each other's countries.
Turkish telco Turkcell has overhauled its mobile wallet service, adding a feature that lets customers make payments at the point-of-sale by entering their phone number.
09 October 2012
National Australia Bank is to equip its 130,000-strong merchant network with technology from VeriFone capable of turning mobile phones and tablets into point-of-sale devices.
US retail giant Wal-Mart has teamed up with American Express to launch Bluebird, a mobile-heavy alternative to bank debit and current accounts.
08 October 2012
Large numbers of Brits have been unable to access their accounts online and withdraw cash from ATMs after separate systems problems at Lloyds Banking Group and the Co-operative Bank.
05 October 2012
Payleven has become the latest Square-clone to launch in Europe, distinguishing itself from a plethora of rivals by claiming to be the first offering chip and PIN authentication.
03 October 2012
Yet another start-up - this one called Emu - that lets merchants accept card payments through their mobile phone has launched in the UK, with the rest of Europe to follow.
02 October 2012
RBS and NatWest have begun a contactless payments trial, giving 1000 customers NFC-enabled iPhone cases ahead of a wider roll out.
UK Square-clone mPowa says it has struck a multi-million pound deal with South Africa's First National Bank (FNB). Meanwhile, the firm has denied claims made by its own staff that it can no longer process Visa transactions.
01 October 2012
French wireless operator SFR is to issue a pre-paid cash card to customers as a first step to the introduction of contactless mobile payments and NFC.
25 September 2012
Beer-addled revellers at this year's Oktoberfest looking to buy tat won't need to fumble in their lederhosen pockets for loose change thanks to German Square-alike payworks which has equipped buxom fräuleins with iPhones and readers for accepting card payments.
A couple of Romanians have pleaded guilty to their part in a scam that saw the point-of-sale systems of hundreds of US Subway sandwich shops hacked, thousands of cards compromised and millions of dollars stolen.
19 September 2012
The mobile wallet may still be embryonic, but retailers are nonetheless preparing for a revolution in high street shopping habits driven by smartphone-touting consumers, according to separate studies conducted by MasterCard and Deloitte.
18 September 2012
MasterCard has released a toolkit to help developers build Android and BlackBerry apps using its PayPass contactless technology
17 September 2012
Mobile payments outfit Square has closed a series d funding round, thought to be worth around $200 million, joined by Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, and Starbucks.
Atos Worldline has launched a ready-to-go, Visa and MasterCard compliant NFC mobile payment application for card issuers around the world.
The Google Wallet has become a little fatter, with Barclaycard following Discover's lead and encouraging customers to add their plastic to the mobile payments system.
14 September 2012
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