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MasterCard has teamed up with CQR Payment Solutions to launch its rePower service in Europe, enabling customers to use cash to top up pre-paid cards at merchants.
12 September 2012
Google is ditching the pre-paid card it gives to people who sign up for its mobile wallet, telling customers to spend any money they have on it by the middle of next month.
11 September 2012
US vendor DeviceFidelity has teamed up with Vincento Payment Solutions and MasterCard to launch its NFC pre-paid mobile wallet app for the iPhone in Europe, beginning with the UK.
MasterCard has become the first international payments network to issue a license to a Myanmar bank, paving the way for branded cards to be issued and accepted in the country for the first time.
06 September 2012
MasterCard has struck a five year deal with Everything Everywhere to build a mobile and digital payments system for the telco giant's 27 million UK customers.
28 August 2012
Singapore wireless operators SingTel and M1 have both launched mobile contactless payments services, enabling customers to make purchases by tapping their handsets at the point of sale.
24 August 2012
SumUp, the latest start-up providing technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals has launched in the UK, Germany, Ireland and Austria after securing more than $20 million in funding.
Tap and go payments technology appears to have successfully established itself in the collective British psyche over the last year, with 84% of people now able to identify the contactless symbol.
23 August 2012
PayPal has struck a deal with Discover that will see it tap into the card firm's network to bring acceptance of its mobile wallet to millions of US stores.
22 August 2012
Some Square transactions went unprocessed yesterday thanks to technical problems that also saw the mobile payments firm's Web site go down.
Visa is preparing to launch an encryption service designed to help merchants, acquirers and processors protect cardholder data.
21 August 2012
Visa is working with banks in Myanmar to help build the country's electronic payments infrastructure as it opens up to the rest of the world.
17 August 2012
Aussie police say that hackers targeting merchant computer systems may have stolen half a million credit card numbers and racked up A$25 million in fraudulent transactions.
Discover has given its blessing to Google Wallet, adding a click-to-add feature to its online customer account centre to make it easy for customers to load their card to the search giant's mobile payments system.
An estimated 3.5 million Carphone Warehouse customers will get a personal introduction to mobile payments from this month as staff at 800 stores help customers install and register SimplyTap - an instant mobile checkout app developed by The Mobile Money Network (MMN).
15 August 2012
In a bid to make headway in a crowded market, mobile-commerce outfit GoPago is making an aggressive pitch to merchants by throwing in all of its point-of-sale software and hardware - including a tablet - for free.
08 August 2012
Starbucks has inked a deal with Square that sees the coffee chain commit to using the start-up's mobile payments technology in its stores, entrust it with all US card transaction processing and stump up $25 million towards a funding round.
US QR-code-based mobile payments start-up LevelUp has raised $9 million in the second part of a $21 million funding round joined by Deutsche Telekom venture capital arm T-Venture.
03 August 2012
Google is bidding to breathe new life into its stuttering mobile wallet platform by launching a cloud-based version of the app that can be linked to Visa, American Express and Discover cards.
02 August 2012
The South African government has called in MasterCard to help it distribute welfare benefits to millions of people through biometric debit cards.
31 July 2012
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