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Spain's Bankia has launched a sticker and app-based mobile contactless payments service.
07 July 2014
London buses have stopped accepting cash fares in a move that Transport for London (TfL) says will save £24 million a year.
CaixaBank is to distribute 15,000 contactless wristbands to customers over the summer, staking a claim to being the largest wearable payments programme in Europe.
03 July 2014
Spain's BBVA has become the first major global bank to commercially launch a host card emulation-based mobile contactless payments service.
30 June 2014
Telecom Italia is to equip small business customers with mPOS chip card readers from payleven as the country enacts new legislation requiring firms to accept debit card payments for any transaction over EUR30.
Spurred on by the fall-out from last year's Target data breach, 86% of US financial institutions plan to begin issuing EMV-based chip cards within the next two years, according to the annual debit issuer report from Pulse.
26 June 2014
Telco-owned UK mobile commerce joint venture Weve has lost chief executive officer David Sear, who has quit for a new job.
25 June 2014
MasterCard has teamed up with Vietnam's Sacombank to bring card payments to Ho Chi Minh City's iconic Ben Thanh market for the first time.
23 June 2014
The Brixton Pound is getting its own app, tapping iBeacon technology to let shoppers make purchases in the local currency through their iPhones.
20 June 2014
A Manchester street will provide a glimpse into a cashless future tomorrow when its merchants ban notes and coins for one day.
US telco giant AT&T has enlisted mobile commerce firm CorFire to help it deliver non-payment related NFC services to customers.
19 June 2014
QR code-based mobile payments firm LevelUp is integrating support for Apple's iBeacon after testing showed that pushing instore offers through the technology significantly increased sales.
18 June 2014
France's national interbank network, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB, is evaluating the use of biometry in payment transactions and is expected to approve a new authentication standard based on fingeprints before the end of the year
16 June 2014
BlackBerry has struck a three year deal with Canadian telco-owned mobile payments joint venture Enstream to provide a secure platform for transactions between banks and their customers.
13 June 2014
Australia's Bendigo Bank has teamed up with Samsung to launch a QR code-based instore mobile payments system that gives customers 'cred' that can be donated to charity every time they make a purchase.
12 June 2014
Digital commerce outfit Powa Technologies has acquired Hong Kong-based MPayMe in an all share deal it says is worth $75 million.
A Zimbabwean technology firm has developed an in-store payments system that lets shoppers pay at the point-of-sale through a sound emitted by their mobile phones.
11 June 2014
Barclaycard is preparing to jump on the wearable tech bandwagon through the launch of a contactless payments wristband.
09 June 2014
Russia's Sberbank is preparing to introduce both Secure Element- and Host Card Emulation-based mobile NFC payment wallets in a decision that reflects the different "risk profiles" of the two technologies.
Cash usage may be on the slide but notes and coins are still the UK's most commonly used buying tool, accounting for more than half of all payments last year, according to new figures.
06 June 2014
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