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In a bid to co-opt retailers to their mission to kill cash, a group of Dutch banks and MasterCard recently held a special musical, cashless 'thank you' event for the country's shop workers.
08 March 2013
Finextra TV/Innovation
MasterCard's Morning Brew wraps up all the news from Mobile World Congress
07 March 2013
Using simple social engineering techniques, an attacker has managed to steal around $12,500 in bitcoins from virtual currency exchange BitInstant.
06 March 2013
Italian bank UniCredit has begun market tests of a new biometric payment system that uses infra-red sensors at the POS terminal to recognise the geometry of the veins in the palm of the user's hand.
05 March 2013
Spain's Bankinter is prepping a contactless mobile payments service that does not require a secure element within the handset.
04 March 2013
Australia's CommBank has launched a site that pools transactional data to give consumers insight into spending patterns and lifestyle trends.
American payments start-up Stripe has made its way across the Atlantic, launching a closed UK beta ahead of a wider European rollout.
01 March 2013
Financial technology lovers will make their way to the Level39 site in London's Canary Wharf later this month for a day-long hackathon organised by Open Bank Project parent Tesobe.
The world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, MT. Gox, has inked a deal that will see Silicon Valley-based CoinLab handle its North American operations.
28 February 2013
A YouGov poll of consumer attitudes to the introduction of portable bank account numbers has unearthed an underlying distrust of social and mobile technologies and a clear preference for human-to-human interaction via the branch, the call centre and the Web.
NAB customers are set to hit a digital landmark in a couple of months, making more transactions online and through their phones than in branches, predicts the Australian bank.
JPMorgan Chase has selected 'platform-as-a-service' vendor Apprenda to develop, deliver and manage its portfolio of internal applications, custom-built in .NET and Java.
27 February 2013
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has launched a mobile money company which aims to make it easier for online shoppers to complete purchases.
Location-based social networking outfit Foursquare has struck a deal with Visa and MasterCard that will see cardholders receive discounts for checking in at certain retailers.
26 February 2013
Catch up with all the news from the MasterCard Mobile Payments Global Symposium at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.
MasterCard has unveiled MasterPass, a digital service that lets customers use any card or enabled handset to shop online and in the real world.
25 February 2013
MasterCard offers a preview of their mobile payments offerings prior to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Geraldine Wilson, MD Micro Merchants at WorldPay talks with Finextra about the pilot and the planned Summer launch of their Pay As You Go card acceptance service.
Setting its sights on the European market, PayPal has unveiled a chip and PIN version of its dongle for turning mobile phones into card payment terminals.
22 February 2013
Belgium-based payments outfit Bancontact/Mister Cash has unveiled a mobile app that taps QR codes to let users send money to each other.
21 February 2013
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