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Should we prepare ourselves for a cashless future? Not according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), which is ready to ward off any large scale attempts by card schemes and retailers to abandon notes and coins in favour of plastic and electronic payments.
28 June 2013
WorldPay has secured a deal which will see British department store chain John Lewis sell its new Mpos chip and PIN device.
27 June 2013
Lloyds has become the first UK bank to muscle in on the mobile point-of-sale market, inking a deal with Monitise to hawk the vendor's card acceptance technology to small business customers.
26 June 2013
MasterCard has teamed up with the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and telco Etisalat to launch what it claims is the first ever Arabic mobile money service.
25 June 2013
VocaLink has formed a new company, called Zapp, to build a service that will let Brits link their bank accounts to their mobile phone numbers and make real-time payments through their handsets.
24 June 2013
Kuwait International Bank and McDonald's are preparing to launch a mobile payments pilot using technology from Swedish outfit Seamless.
17 June 2013
Greater Manchester's transport chiefs have taken the 'it does what it says on the tin' approach to naming the city's new smart ticketing system, calling it the Get Me There.
Coffee chain Starbucks has become the latest major UK high street player to complete a large-scale roll out of contactless payments terminals.
The ongoing battle between card schemes and US merchants over interchange fees has escalated, with news that Visa is to sue the nation's largest retailer Wal-Mart over its rejection of a previously negotiated $7.2 billion class action interchange settlement.
14 June 2013
Mobile banking professionals from around the world gathered in Barcelona on Tuesday for a day of networking and debate at the second annual MobeyDay. Finextra liveblogged events here.
11 June 2013
Research from Finextra finds that banks around the world are looking to discounted offers and big data analytics to beat off the competition from telcos and tech start-ups as they battle for control of the consumer mobile wallet.
10 June 2013
MasterCard is to expand its PayPass footprint in Japan with a pledge to deploy 410,000 contactless terminals throughout the country over the next three years.
06 June 2013
Visa has signed a host of mobile point-of-sale outfits - including iZettle and SumUp - to its 'Visa Ready Program', giving them the opportunity to secure its seal of approval and gain access to a range of tools.
05 June 2013
Dutch vendor Bell ID has launched a cloud-based secure element for the provisioning of mobile NFC services, eliminating the need for hardware within the handset.
The worldwide transaction value of mobile payments will soar this year, up 44% on 2012, according to Gartner. However, the research house has slashed its expectations for NFC, which continues to struggle to pick up momentum.
04 June 2013
MasterCard has begun working with Chunghwa Telecom and Cathay United Bank on a mobile NFC payments service in Taiwan.
03 June 2013
As digital alternatives grew in popularity, Brits did 10% less of their shopping last year with cash, although it continued to be the country's most popular payment method.
30 May 2013
Russian network operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has selected Gemalto's UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing system in the city of Novosibirsk.
29 May 2013
Visa and MasterCard have issued a retaliatory law-suit aginst trade associations and retailers that have rejected a $7.2 billion class action interchange settlement.
28 May 2013
With $1.5 million in funding secured, Clip, a Square clone targeting the Spanish-speaking world, is preparing to launch in Mexico.
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