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PayPal trials 'pay with face' tech in London

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.

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ByteLight pilots LFC-based checkout with Chinese retailers

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.

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Zapp poaches Barclays mobile chief Ian Sayers

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.

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PayPal and Softbank bid to reboot Japanese JV

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.

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Isis set for national roll out

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.

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Palestine Monetary Authority taps BPC for e-payments push

The Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) has called in BPC Banking Technologies to help it roll out a national switch electronic payment system.

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Italian ACH, SIA takes controlling stake in European telco

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.

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Visa hails Slovakia as a 'hero' market for contactless technology

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.

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PayPal extends offline ambitions in Australia

PayPal's ambitions to extend its business offline have been boosted in Australia through partnerships with local hospitality and catering outfits EatNow and OrderMate.

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MCX names Barclaycard veteran Davidson CEO

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.

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US Bank lets customers link accounts with Square wallet

US Bank is letting customers link their card accounts to the Square wallet application, enabling them to make purchases from their mobile phones.

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RBC preps cloud-based mobile payments service

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.

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Zapp chooses Oracle for mobile commerce platform

Zapp, the British mobile commerce company recently set up by VocaLink, has called in Oracle to help build its technology platform.

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SocGen begins national commercial roll out of mobile NFC

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.

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Uniqul introduces face payments

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.

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China Unionpay launches mobile NFC payments system

Card scheme China UnionPay has signed up eight banks for the launch of its contactless mobile payments system, Wallet, in Shanghai.

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MCX taps FIS to power m-commerce payments network

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.

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Hungarian consortium preps NFC mobile payments trial

A consortium of three Hungarian telcos, a local bank and MasterCard have joined forces to pilot a contactless mobile payments system.

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SumUp secures BBVA investment ahead of South America push

Mobile point-of sale-outfit SumUp has set its sights on the South American market after securing investment from banking giant BBVA.

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US banks team up to improve digital payments safety

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.