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Visa onboard for Apple Pay's Hong Kong debut

Visa, a leading global payments technology company, announced that starting from today eligible Visa cardholders in Hong Kong will be able to use Apple Pay and begin to make purchases at selected merchants.

20 July 2016

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Mortgage Brain enlists NaviSite for cloud home buying

NaviSite Europe Limited today announces that multi-award winning technology solutions provider Mortgage Brain has selected NaviSite as its cloud services partner.

20 July 2016

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Square makes European move

Mobile payments firm Square is finally gearing up to launch in Europe after incorporating a business, called Squareup Europe Ltd, in the UK, according to Reuters.

20 July 2016

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Apple Pay lands in France

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) Today, Visa announced that Visa debit and credit cardholders from French banks Banque Populaire et Caisse d’Epargne (BPCE group) now have access to Apple Pay which launches today.

19 July 2016

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Intelligent Point of Sale upgrades app

Intelligent Point of Sale, the young Scottish start-up that developed the UK’s first cloud-based, iPad electronic point of sale (EPOS) application, is now set to challenge the world’s major EPOS players.

19 July 2016

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Ingenico and Wirecard form Indonesian alliance

Ingenico and Wirecard have finalized a partnership in Indonesia through their respective subsidiaries, PT Ingenico International Indonesia and PT Prima Vista Solusi.

19 July 2016

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DailyUse taps Infostretch for contactless mobile payment platform

Enterprise mobility solution provider Infostretch announced that it has provided software development services that enabled DailyUse to quickly deliver a secure, contactless mobile payment platform to credit card issuers worldwide.

19 July 2016

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Samsung Pay arrives in brazil for the Olympics

Samsung Electronics announced today that Brazil will roll out Samsung Pay on July 19, with major financial partners, making it the first market in South America to introduce the company’s mobile payment service.

18 July 2016

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Canadian telco-led NFC m-payments service suretap folds

Canada's suretap has become the latest telco-led mobile wallet venture to go to the wall, with the outfit deciding that it cannot compete in an increasingly crowded field.

18 July 2016

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The new way to pay: Contactless fingernails

Forget Apple Pay, the cool new way to get around on London's Underground is to tap your contactless fingernails.

15 July 2016

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MasterCard goes all in on digital with MasterPass

In an important industry milestone, Mastercard today unveiled the foundation for the future of commerce with the new Masterpass global digital payment service.

14 July 2016

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TIM and SIA team on POS payment service

TIM, by way of its technology partnership with SIA (through subsidiary TSP), has made POS MultiPay terminals operative in over 2,200 stores in its sales network in Italy, with the aim of extending the methods of electronic payment for its offers.

14 July 2016

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MasterCard and McDonald's sign three-year collaboration agreement for Middle East and Africa

MasterCard and McDonald’s today announced a strategic collaboration to introduce innovative electronic payment solutions at McDonald’s restaurants in UAE and across other key markets in the Middle East and Africa.

14 July 2016

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The best is yet to come for Europe's payments firms - Citi

The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.

14 July 2016

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Europeans keen to secure payments with biometrics

More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.

14 July 2016

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TfL inks £15m licensing deal to take contactless payments global

Transport for London (TfL) has struck a multi-million pound licensing deal that will see the technology behind its contactless payments system used in other cities around the world.

13 July 2016

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Samsung Pay launches in Puerto Rico

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico.

12 July 2016

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NanoPay names Tracy Molino general counsel and chief compliance officer

NanoPay Corporation, a fully-integrated loyalty and payments platform provider and provider of the MintChip digital cash platform, announces Tracy Molino joined its executive leadership team as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.

12 July 2016

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Visa bids to make Rio the wearable Games

Visa is using the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio to push wearable payments into the mainstream, unveiling contactless watches, bracelets and rings.

12 July 2016

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Wirecard and Ametras build payments app for furniture retailer Möbel Inhofer

Wirecard, one of the leading payment service providers, and Ametras, a global IT and software provider, have announced a cooperation in the field of mobile payment. Together, the companies are bringing to market a payment app for Europe's largest furniture and furnishings store Möbel Inhofer.

11 July 2016