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ACI Worldwide and Verifone to deliver pan-European card platform fo Auchan Group

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global provider of real-time electronic and eCommerce payment and banking solutions, announced today it will partner with Verifone (NYSE: PAY), a global provider of payments and commerce solutions, to deliver a comprehensive pan-European card payments platform for Auchan Group, one of Europe’s largest food retailers.

16 March 2016

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Icici introduces HCE-based contactless mobile payments

In what it claims is an Indian first, Icici Bank has launched an HCE-based contactless mobile payments service, enabling nearly 30 million customers to make in-store purchases with a tap of their smartphones.

15 March 2016

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Miura Systems launches POSzle

Global mPOS leader Miura Systems today launches POSzle – a modular tablet Point of Sale (POS) bundle that also supports integrated payments to offer small businesses an elegant, low cost, and powerful out-of-the-box POS solution ready for any dynamic retail and hospitality environments.

09 March 2016

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PayPal Here SDK in UK signs first eight businesses

PayPal has revealed the first partners to adopt its PayPal Here SDK in the UK.

09 March 2016

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Square arrives in Australia

Square today announced the availability of its payment processing and hardware in Australia.

08 March 2016

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Paymit hits the high street

From today, you can use Paymit to make mobile and cashless payments in selected shops and restaurants.

04 March 2016

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Administrators sell failed Powa units

Administrators have found buyers for two units of Powa Technologies, the failed payments startup that once claimed to be worth $2.7 billion.

03 March 2016

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Debit card reform has helped small banks - Philadelphia Fed

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve has just released a report that debit card reform has helped small banks.

03 March 2016

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Google pilots Hands Free payments app

Google has begun testing its Hands Free payments app, letting a small group of people in San Francisco leave their wallets and phones in their pockets and pay just by talking.

02 March 2016

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Samsung Pay comes to Wells Fargo customers

Today Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (WFC) customers may use a Samsung mobile device to use Samsung Pay to conveniently make purchases at magnetic stripe payment terminals as well as terminals set up for contactless payments.

02 March 2016

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Wirecard acquires Romanian payment provider

Wirecard AG today acquired all shares of the Provus Group which is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

29 February 2016

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Android Pay coming to the UK - Telegraph

Google will bring its Android Pay service to the UK next month, according to the Daily Telegraph.

29 February 2016

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UK contactless spending trebles in 2015

Spending on contactless cards in the UK rose more than three-fold in 2015 to reach £7.75 billion, propelled by an increase in the spending limit to £30 and the ongoing popularity of transit payments on the London transport network.

26 February 2016

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Dream Payments launches mobile merchant services platform

Dream Payments, a Toronto based fintech solution provider and payment cloud operator, today announced the launch of the Dream Mobile Merchant Services Platform.

23 February 2016

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Fed staffers put a downer on mobile payments party

While the crowds at Mobile World Congress in Barcleona lap up the latest innovations in mobile payments and biometric security, party-pooping staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta have cast a more sober eye over the potential for mass-market uptake of new-fangled payment methods.

23 February 2016

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Fime EMV test tools get accreditation from JCB in Japan

FIME announces today that its Japanese laboratory is the first in the country to be accredited by JCB to perform functional testing on contactless payment terminal kernels, in line with its Book C-5 specification which relates to the JCB’s payment scheme.

18 February 2016

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EMV merchant adoption slower than expected

The Strawhecker Group (TSG), a management consulting company focused on the global payments industry, released survey results today that estimate 37 percent of U.S. merchant locations are EMV-ready four months after the October 1st, 2015 liability shift.

17 February 2016

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NCR upgrades Silver POS system

NCR Small Business today announced an upgrade for NCR Silver, its tablet point-of-sale (POS) system.

17 February 2016

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Comprion and P3 develop POS test tool

Regardless of already existing contactless communication standards such as NFC and EMVCo, the payment service providers and terminal vendors are still coping with teething problems resulting from the large number of smartphones, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and technologies used.

17 February 2016

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UK hits 10 year Chip and PIN anniversary

A decade on from the introduction of Chip and PIN in the UK, almost four in every five pounds of spending at British retailers is made through debit and credit cards.

15 February 2016