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Visa and Samsung will next week unveil their Olympic and Paralympic Games contactless mobile payments app.
24 February 2012
Boku has unveiled a platform that lets customers make online and contactless in-store point-of-sale payments through their mobile network operator.
23 February 2012
MasterCard has launched a mobile money partnership programme designed to bring financial services to underbanked people in developing markets.
Banca Intesa Sanpaolo is partnering with Italian wireless operator Nòverca to pilot contactless mobile payments in Milan and Turin.
22 February 2012
The latest in a long line of computer problems to hit Australian banks has left NAB customers unable to use ATMs and point-of-sale terminals or access their account online or over the phone.
10 February 2012
Turkey's Isbank has installed around 3400 Hitachi biometric finger vein scanners in ATMs and branches across the country, enabling customers to withdraw cash without a card.
07 February 2012
President Obama's re-election campaign is using mobile payments start-up Square to let staffers and volunteers accept card donations in a move being followed by potential Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
31 January 2012
Following the lead of rival Visa, MasterCard has set out plans to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.
Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is preparing to introduce a contactless mobile payments service.
27 January 2012
UK e-commerce outfit Powa has become the latest firm to launch a plastic dongle and mobile app that turns smartphones into payment card readers.
23 January 2012
Following its decision last year to push the adoption of EMV in the United States, Visa has moved to clarify that this does not mean the introduction of chip and PIN cards.
17 January 2012
US merchants with Ingenico point-of-sale terminals will be able to accept PayPal payments from customers, under a deal struck between the two firms.
La Caixa has partnered with Visa Europe on a major contactless payments push in Barcelona, rolling out cards, point-of-sale terminals and ATMs featuring the technology across the city.
12 January 2012
Intuit is preparing to launch its GoPayment mobile credit card processing app and hardware in Canada. Meanwhile, rival Square has inked deals to sell its offering in OfficeMax and UPS stores.
10 January 2012
PayPal has taken another step in its journey to the high street, beginning a pilot of its new point-of-sale technology with US retail giant Home Depot.
09 January 2012
The European Commission will next week present a paper outlining obstacles hindering further integration in the European market for card, Internet and mobile payments and how these could be resolved.
06 January 2012
Nigeria's central bank has kicked off its 'cashless Lagos' project, introducing limits on how much paper money people can withdraw and deposit in a bid to encourage the transition to electronic payment methods.
05 January 2012
Nearly three quarters of British contactless users think that the technology will eventually become more commonplace than cash and 84% see cards as just a stepping stone to mobile NFC payments, according to a survey from Visa Europe.
21 December 2011
PayPal has begun testing a contactless mobile payments application in Sweden, teaming with two major retailers for the Christmas pilot.
20 December 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has been forced to take to Twitter and Facebook again to apologise to customers unable to access online accounts or use ATMs and point-of-sale terminals.
14 December 2011
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