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Visa develops new mobile payment service

05 Aug 15 @ 16:54

Visa is preparing for the launch of a new mobile payment service for the Indian market. As part of the plans, Visa is establishing a technology centre in the Bangalore... read more

PayPoint launches Advanced Payment suite

04 Aug 15 @ 16:31

PayPoint, a global payment technology provider has launched its third generation “Advanced Payments” platform for mobile and online merchants. According to PayPoint, the new digital platform has been designed from... read more

Australian Senate: treat digital currency as regular currency

04 Aug 15 @ 16:28

The Australian Senate has stated that digital currency transactions should be treated in the same way as regular currency for the purposes of taxation. An earlier judgment from Australia’s Taxation... read more

Green Dot launches mobile cash processing tech

04 Aug 15 @ 16:25

US payment service provider Green Dot Corporation has launched a cash processing technology enabling customers to securely add cash to their accounts at participating retailers using their mobile device. This... read more

KPMG: mobile banking usage to double in 4 years

03 Aug 15 @ 14:37

The number of global mobile banking users is set to double to 1.8 billion over the next four years, according to research by KPMG, using primary survey data supplied by... read more

BACS reaches 100 million payments a day

03 Aug 15 @ 14:34

Over 103 million payments were processed in just one day at the end of July by BACS, the UK payment processing organisation. BACS has already achieved a number of transaction... read more

Fidelity and SunGard in acquisition talks

03 Aug 15 @ 14:30

Shares in US payment service provider Fidelity National Information Services have soared on speculation that it is in talks to buy financial technology conglomerate SunGard. Private equity-owned SunGard filed for... read more

Japan’s payment paradox

31 Jul 15 @ 16:20

A new report from payment consultancy Aite Group states that despite Japan being viewed as one of the most advanced payments nations in the world, it remains a cash-intensive society.... read more

Smart card IC shipments to reach 12.7 billion in 2019

31 Jul 15 @ 16:16

Shipments of smart card integrated circuits (ICs) are projected to increase from 9.6 billion in 2014 to 10.4 billion in 2015 and to 12.7 billion in 2019, according to research... read more

MasterCard and Samsung extend Samsung Pay in Europe

31 Jul 15 @ 16:12

MasterCard and Samsung Electronics have announced they are extending their global partnership leveraging the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) to deliver the mobile payment service Samsung Pay in Europe. Samsung... read more

NatWest online banking crashes again

31 Jul 15 @ 16:09

UK bank NatWest, part of the RBS group, has suffered another online banking crash which has affected thousands of users. The latest IT failure comes only six weeks after the... read more

MasterCard pays out $61 million to settle Tesco interchange suit

31 Jul 15 @ 16:06

MasterCard has paid out $61 million to UK supermarket retailer Tesco in what is expected to be the first of several settlements by card schemes over interchange fee lawsuits lodged... 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