Mobile payments

13 Jun 17 @ 10:41

Fiserv is reported to have agreed to buy embattled UK financial services technology firm Monitise for £70m ($88.72 million). AIM-listed Monetise, worth about £2bn  at its peak in early 2014,... read more

12 Jun 17 @ 16:22

More than 30 US banks and credit unions are unveiling a unified service to customers this week, called Zelle, after years of watching Silicon Valley innovators from Square to Apple build... read more

09 Jun 17 @ 12:42

Samsung has expanded its Bixby artificial intelligence (AI) platform to include the ability to make payments through Samsung Pay. The voice controlled virtual assistant is currently only available in South... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 09:23

A new study released  by Visa entitled “How We Will Pay 2017,” found that more than 80% of Americans have a strong interest in using IoT and connected devices to make... read more

07 Jun 17 @ 10:32

The first nationally sanctioned mobile wallet solution for the United Arab Emirates has been launched. Emcredit, a fully owned subsidiary of the Dubai Economy, will launch empay, a secure mobile wallet... read more

05 Jun 17 @ 13:56

LG has managed to launch its heavily delayed mobile payment service dubbed LG Pay on Friday, June 2. The digital wallet will  compete with other wallets like Samsung Pay and Apple Pay. According... read more

02 Jun 17 @ 12:05

So, contactless card fraud hit £7m in the UK in 2016, up from £153k in 2014. Cue click-bait headlines about fraud soaring by almost 4,500%. When you dig a bit... read more

31 May 17 @ 10:53

Apple and Visa have been hit with an Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit by Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, that alleges their mobile-payment partnership infringes four of its patents. In a... read more

23 May 17 @ 13:26

New research from FIS reveals that Britain’s challenger banks are outscoring their High Street counterparts in meeting their needs for digital payments, easy to understand and use products/services, innovative products/services and... read more

22 May 17 @ 14:34

The Internet of Things will change how commerce and transactions are conducted, and in turn will require changes in payments. For the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver on its... read more

18 May 17 @ 10:11

The UK Payments industry, along with the rest of Europe, is facing a raft of challenges in the near future, from the proliferation of alternative payment channels, increasingly demanding merchant... read more

18 May 17 @ 09:46

In news from the Google I/O the tech giant announced that they will partner Android Pay and PayPal for a mobile payments platform, the companies announced this morning. The partnership... read more