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UK mobile commerce outfit Zapp is targeting 20 million users by 2017, promising to rival traditional payments giants such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the decade.
04 November 2013
Merseyrail will this week become the first UK rail operator to roll out contactless payments across its network, although travellers will still need a paper ticket.
Banking giant Citi has teamed up with telco 3 Hong Kong to launch an NFC-enabled mobile wallet.
01 November 2013
Google has found a way to circumvent carrier restrictions on its mobile wallet by introducing support for Host Card Emulation in the latest version of its Android operating system, effectively removing the need for access to the telco-controlled Secure Element.
US start-up Circle has secured $9 million in funding as it bids to bring digital currencies such as bitcoin to mainstream businesses and consumers.
The security of contactless payment cards has again been called into question after researchers claimed to be able to pick up NFC data from as far away as 80 centimetres.
31 October 2013
Japanese telco NTT Docomo has teamed up with MasterCard to enable customers to make contactless mobile payments around the world.
29 October 2013
Google is rolling out a tool which lets US firms create coupon offers and link them to its Maps service.
28 October 2013
As it gears up for launch, mobile payments start-up Clinkle has hired former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy as its chief operating officer.
22 October 2013
Australia's Commonwealth Bank is offering customers NFC stickers that can be attached to mobile phones and used to make contactless payments.
17 October 2013
Isis is hoping to entice Americans to sign up for its upcoming mobile NFC wallet by offering one million free Jamba Juice smoothies.
16 October 2013
Crooks have infected point-of-sale devices in South Africa with malware, obtaining customer card details and using them to steal millions of rand, according to local reports.
15 October 2013
Australia's competition watchdog is to allow card schemes and banks to work together to replace the use of signatures at the check-out with Chip and PIN authorisation for payments.
11 October 2013
In its latest bid to conquer the high street, PayPal has unveiled a feature that lets customers make in-store payments using a QR code or passcode generated by an app on their phones.
08 October 2013
A new association designed to promote interoperable card-linked customer offers has been set up by industry players including Microsoft, Bank of America, Discover, Facebook and First Data.
07 October 2013
Aussie debit card system eftpos has called in US firm FIS to build a new centralised payments hub to help usher in new contactless and mobile technologies.
02 October 2013
Leaf, a Boston-based mPOS start-up with its own purpose-built tablet, has scored $20 million in funding from processing giant Heartland Payment Systems.
01 October 2013
Intuit has moved to make it easier for small businesses to import their transactions from Square point-of-sale products into its QuickBooks accounting software.
25 September 2013
Italian bank UniCredit has teamed up with First Data to test a QR code-based mobile payments service.
24 September 2013
Point-of-sale terminal manufacturer VeriFone has appointed Citi payments executive Paul Galant chief executive officer.
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