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Research reveals little impact from mobile payments on cash use

17 Aug 15 @ 16:54

The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) has released a new research paper, “US Mobile Payments: Do They Disrupt Cash?” which examines the impact of mobile payments on the growth of cash. Despite... read more

European Issuers can thrive in a tokenisation enabled ecosystem

17 Aug 15 @ 16:41

TSYS has announced the publication of a new white paper titled “How European Issuers Can Thrive in an Ecosystem Defined by Tokenisation-Enabled NFC Payments.” The white paper explains that the recent... read more

Samsung Pay teams with card schemes and banks for launch

14 Aug 15 @ 15:41

Tech giant Samsung will launch its mobile payments service Samsung Pay in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and major banks lining up for a US launch in... read more

PayPal Here enables SMEs to take contactless payments

14 Aug 15 @ 15:38

PayPal is now selling NFC-enabled card readers on its website aimed at small businesses, enabling them to accept contactless payments. The PayPal Here card reader costs £79.95 and is followed... read more

EVO and Raiffeisenbank form card acceptance alliance

14 Aug 15 @ 15:35

Global acquirer and payment service provider EVO Payments International has formed a strategic alliance with pan-European banking group Raiffeisenbank for card acceptance in the Czech Republic. As a result of... read more

Coinify acquires digital currency rival Coinzone

13 Aug 15 @ 17:00

Danish digital currency processor Coinify has acquired Dutch rival processor Coinzone in order to create a pan-European provider of payment processing for online merchants and payment service providers. The deal... read more

CBA error double-charges transactions

13 Aug 15 @ 16:57

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has apologised to its customers following a system error that saw customers being double-charged for debit, credit and mobile payments over a six-day period. The... read more

BlackBerry and PayPal team up for P2P payments

13 Aug 15 @ 16:53

BlackBerry has teamed up with e-commerce giant PayPal for a trial that lets BBM users in Canada send and receive money through its messaging service. Upon connecting their PayPal account,... read more

Mobile catching up on branches in US

12 Aug 15 @ 17:31

The mobile channel is catching up with the internet and branch as the most popular banking channel for US consumers, according to an American Bankers Association (ABA) survey. The ABA... read more

Paym reaches £70 million mark

12 Aug 15 @ 17:28

UK person-to-person mobile payments service Paym has recorded more than three-quarters of a million transactions in the first half of 2015. Paym lets users make payments from within their banking... read more

MCX loses participating merchant Rite Aid

12 Aug 15 @ 17:23

US mobile payments consortium MCX has suffered a blow after US drugstore chain Rite Aid announced activation support for rival products from Google and Apple across its 4,600 outlets across... read more

American Express adds Apple Pay for US corporate cards

11 Aug 15 @ 16:48

American Express has announced that its corportate card portfolio will be activated for Apple Pay, allowing cardmembers to pay on the go with compatible Apple devices. The mobile payment option... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more