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Shops in Richmond, London, have begun trialling mobile payments technology from PayPal which lets customers verify themselves at the checkout using a photo and their first name.
08 August 2013
Boston-based start-up ByteLight is preparing to pilot a light field communications (LFC) reader in Chinese stores, enabling shoppers to use their mobile phones to access targeted loyalty rewards.
02 August 2013
Zapp, the British m-commerce company recently set up by VocaLink, has raided Barclays to bring in the bank's mobile and digital architecture chief Ian Sayers as its chief technology officer.
PayPal and SoftBank have moved to jump-start their Japanese venture with a new data-only phone package for merchants who sign up to PayPal Here.
01 August 2013
Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture set up by a group of US telcos, says it will launch its NFC-based wallet nationwide later this year - and expects it to work with Apple's iPhone.
31 July 2013
The Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) has called in BPC Banking Technologies to help it roll out a national switch electronic payment system.
29 July 2013
Italian payments processor SIA has acquired a controlling interest in telecomms firm Emmecon as part of a strategic plan to build a European infrastructure simplifying the link between merchants and banks at the point-of-sale.
26 July 2013
Visa Europe has chosen Slovakia as a showcase market for the adoption of contactless technology, with 1.43 million cards in circulation recording one million contactless transactions per month.
25 July 2013
PayPal's ambitions to extend its business offline have been boosted in Australia through partnerships with local hospitality and catering outfits EatNow and OrderMate.
23 July 2013
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), the mobile commerce joint venture put together by some of America's biggest retailers, has brought in Barclaycard's Dekkers Davidson as CEO.
19 July 2013
US Bank is letting customers link their card accounts to the Square wallet application, enabling them to make purchases from their mobile phones.
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is preparing a mobile NFC payments service which will see sensitive user data stored in the cloud rather than the handset.
18 July 2013
Zapp, the British mobile commerce company recently set up by VocaLink, has called in Oracle to help build its technology platform.
17 July 2013
After years of pilot trials and road tests, French bank Société Générale is set to launch its first national commercial application of NFC-based mobile payments.
16 July 2013
Finnish start-up Uniqul is bidding to make wallets - leather and mobile - a thing of the past through a biometrics system that lets customers pay with their faces.
15 July 2013
Card scheme China UnionPay has signed up eight banks for the launch of its contactless mobile payments system, Wallet, in Shanghai.
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), the mobile commerce joint venture put together by some of America's biggest retailers, has selected FIS for the provision of payment processing, routing and settlement.
11 July 2013
A consortium of three Hungarian telcos, a local bank and MasterCard have joined forces to pilot a contactless mobile payments system.
Mobile point-of sale-outfit SumUp has set its sights on the South American market after securing investment from banking giant BBVA.
09 July 2013
The Clearing House (TCH) is working with America's biggest banks on an industry-wide "dynamic credentialing" system that will improve the safety of digital payments.
02 July 2013
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