Mobile Banking

12 Oct 16 @ 16:09

SolarisBank has entered a strategic agreement with MasterCard to use the card scheme’s global infrastructure to develop new banking API’s and payments modules for digital startups as a banking-as-a-service platform.... read more

11 Oct 16 @ 12:24

Financial intermediation and payment systems have always been the preserve of the banking sector, but advancement in technology or digital disruption is giving a lot of palpitations to bankers. Anthony... read more

11 Oct 16 @ 09:33

Vodafone and PayPal have agreed to allow UK customers to make contactless mobile wallet payments in shops, restaurants and on transport services with their Android smartphones, funded from their PayPal... read more

05 Oct 16 @ 18:07

Corporates are increasingly embracing mobile payments, with more than $100 billion in payments now authorised globally through the HSBCnet mobile corporate banking platform since its launch in 2011. The total... read more

05 Oct 16 @ 13:21

The European roll out of Identity Check Mobile, a new biometric payment technology application that uses biometrics like fingerprints or facial recognition to verify a cardholder’s identity, simplifying online shopping.... read more

04 Oct 16 @ 15:14

27 Spanish banks have teamed up to launch a new mobile payment platform called Bizum which, according to Spanish press reports, is now live. Bizum, an digital initiative of the... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 13:41

The Mastercard Impact of Innovation study explores the attitudes to technology among 23,000 consumers in 23 different countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Although the UK is one of... read more

23 Sep 16 @ 09:15

Accenture announced a multi-year contract with UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions to implement a state-of-the-art Payments-Platform-as-a-Service (PPaaS) solution. Accenture’s new PPaaS solution, which is built on DH Corporation’s (TSX: DH) (D+H)... read more

23 Sep 16 @ 08:38

Delivering digital financial services by mobile phone could benefit billions of people by spurring inclusive growth that adds $3.7 trillion to the GDP of emerging economies within a decade. Two... read more

14 Sep 16 @ 13:49

Visa will introduced a mobile money service to enable cashless transactions in Kenya, where the majority of wireless payments are transacted through Safaricoms M-Pesa. The mVisa app will initially facilitate... read more

07 Sep 16 @ 13:44

Disruption, innovation, Uberisation, disintermediation, Fintechisation, regulation… all of these words are nowadays perceived as challenges for the retail banks and their business. Media and experts are fond of predicting that... read more

07 Sep 16 @ 13:00

As the share of digital payments in Europe keeps on growing to reach 38% of payments by 2020, the continued transformation of Mastercard is driven by the rapid growth and... read more