1692 articles tagged with this keyword
News/Eftpos
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into payment terminals, has been forced to stop processing Visa card transactions in Denmark, Finland and Norway.
30 July 2012
US contactless payments specialist ViVOtech says that is looking to sell off its reader business but denied press reports that it is set to completely cease operations.
Visa's bid to make London 2012 the cashless Olympics has hit the buffers, with Wembley stadium forced to become cash-only during yesterday's football matches.
Square is on the verge of closing a $200 million funding round that would value the dongle and app-based mobile card reader startup at $3.25 billion, according to the New York Times.
25 July 2012
Customers are increasingly willing to use alternative payment methods such as PayPal, claims the British Retail Consortium (BRC) as it tries to scare the financial services establishment into cutting credit and debit card processing charges.
23 July 2012
Sweden's iZettle has teamed up with Samsung to start testing an Android version of its dongle and app system for turning mobile phones into credit card readers.
Co-operative banks in Germany are piloting NFC mobile payment stickers developed specifically for the country's Secure Chip Card Operating System (Seccos).
17 July 2012
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is to move into the mobile POS business with the release of its own point-of-sale tablet and iPhone attachment coupled with a new API developer portal
Square seems to be getting a bit shirty with mPowa, calling in lawyers to demand the upstart rival remove from its Web site an image that bears a striking resemblance to one on Jack Dorsey's baby's own portal.
12 July 2012
Telefónica and Visa Europe have formed a partnership that will see the pair co-invest in a range of mobile money products and services.
06 July 2012
Google says it is working with a number of undisclosed bank partners in a programme to streamline the clumsy card onboarding process for its stuttering mobile wallet service.
03 July 2012
Mobile network operator Deutsche Telekom has formed a Europe-wide partnership with MasterCard that will see the pair push contactless mobile payments to tens of millions of people.
02 July 2012
Following in the footsteps of Visa, MasterCard and Discover, American Express has set out a timetable for its US abandonment of mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.
Mobile network operator Orange has begun rolling out NFC-enabled SIMs to its 27 million customers across France in a move that will accelerate the uptake of contactless payments.
28 June 2012
Chase Paymentech is bidding to drag the US point-of-sale market into the 21st century, equipping merchants with 'future proof' terminals that accept contactless and EMV chip card payments.
27 June 2012
Tech giant Microsoft has made its mobile money move, adding a digital wallet and SIM-based NFC to its latest operating system, Windows Phone 8.
21 June 2012
Asap Transaction Processing Corp Limited (Asap TP) has teamed up with MasterCard to launch what it claims to be Hong Kong's first contactless mobile wallet.
15 June 2012
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals, has raised EUR25 million in a series b funding round as it prepares to launch across Europe.
IZettle, the European start-up that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals, is extending its reach with an API that enables third-party developers to integrate its system into their apps.
13 June 2012
The number of NFC-ready point-of-sale terminals around the world is set to soar over the next few years, from 3.9 million in 2011 to 43.4 million in 2017, claims Swedish research firm Berg Insight.
07 June 2012
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.