Mobile payments

04 Apr 16 @ 12:54

Apple is set to launch one-touch shopping to the mobile Web later this year, enabling consumers with Safari browsers running on phones and tablets to use Apple Pay and TouchID to... read more

31 Mar 16 @ 11:30

Five of Switzerland’s biggest banks are reported to be discussing with top retailers a joint mobile payments platform for the country, the partners said on Wednesday. The talks with financial... read more

22 Mar 16 @ 15:16

A new study  has found that hat the annual transaction value of online, mobile and contactless – digital payments will reach $3.6 trillion this year, up from $3 trillion on 2015, resulting... read more

21 Mar 16 @ 12:36

Tencent is not only China’s largest social network and online entertainment firm, it is now big in mobile payments. The company has quietly built one of the world’s largest mobile payments systems,... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:16

The UK FinTech report, commissioned by HM Treasury and published last month, confirmed something we’re pretty much all agreed upon: “The UK is a global capital for FinTech”. Within FinTech,... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 11:55

Splitting a bill with friends at a restaurant, paying back half of a household bill to your partner, urgently sending money to your child studying in another European country…These are... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 10:22

Visa has launched a new feature for its online payment service, allowing users to authenticate a transaction by swiping an image of the card on the system. This service is best applicable for mobile... read more

11 Mar 16 @ 11:14

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said that 2015 would be the year of Apple Pay. As it turned out, 2015 was the year of mobile payments initiatives generally as technology... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:15

Banks are starting to experiment with a new way of reducing credit-card fraud: tracking their customers’ mobile phones. The principle is straightforward enough. People are wedded to their phones, so if... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:05

NFC mobile payments continue to grab headlines, but to really drive uptake and ensure full market coverage, combining contactless cards with next-gen mobile banking apps is surely the right way... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 09:17

Two of the US’s biggest banks, US Bank and Bank of America are to offer real-time, mobile P2P money transfers to consumer mobile phones over the clearXchange network. ClearXchange, operated by... read more

03 Mar 16 @ 15:58

Failed e-commerce software Unicorn Powa Technologies,  sold two of its divisions  today as it seeks to save jobs after entering administration in February. Deloitte, which was appointed as administrator of the... read more