Payments News

15 Oct 14 @ 14:17

Japanese social media messaging network Line has entered the payments market with a service for both online and in-store transactions. Line, which has 560 million registered users worldwide, will enable... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:12

The UK government is planning to put supervision of MasterCard and Visa alongside the UK’s main interbank payment systems under the remit of the new Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which... read more

13 Oct 14 @ 17:21

A total of 205 billion card payments were made worldwide in 2013, a rise of 13% on 2012, according “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts 2013-2019”, a new report from... read more

09 Oct 14 @ 12:11

The number of UK card transactions, made by either debit and credit, in a single month passed 1 billion for the first time in August, according to the latest figures from The UK Cards Association.... read more

09 Oct 14 @ 11:33

PayPal Canada has released the findings of a national study that shows Canadians are keen to embrace future-forward mobile payments options like wearable devices and smartwatches. The study provides insight... read more

07 Oct 14 @ 15:35

Kenya’s Equity bank is aiming to challenge mobile money transfer giant M-Pesa with the release of an ultra-thin smart SIM enabling users to access the bank’s mobile money service without... read more

07 Oct 14 @ 15:32

mPOS player Square has raised $150 million in a funding round, led by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. The funding round values Square at $6 billion. Existing investors Goldman... read more

07 Oct 14 @ 15:28

MasterCard has signed a two-year deal to mine Facebook Asia-Pacific user data, detailing consumers’ online habits to uncover behavioural insights it can then sell to banks. MasterCard aims to feed the... read more

01 Oct 14 @ 10:15

Dwolla has raised $9.7 million in a further funding round. The highly rated startup set out to build a scalable, global payment network capable of taking on national automated clearing... read more

01 Oct 14 @ 09:56

Reddit, the self styled “front page of the internet”, has raised $50 million in Series B on a $500 million valuation with intentions to give back 10% of the round’s equity to... read more

30 Sep 14 @ 14:22

Non-cash payments volumes are expected to grow 9.4% to reach 366 billion transactions in 20131, fueled by strong growth in developing markets and the use of credit (up 9.9%) and... read more

25 Sep 14 @ 12:00

Ripple’s payments network, that allows institutions to facilitate low-cost international money transfers without the intermediation of large banks, has signed its first two US banks as customers. The two banks –... read more