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05 Mar 15 @ 10:14

Speaking at this morning’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) keynote on digital transactions and social interactions, Ryan Mclnerney, global president of Visa Inc, expressed the huge effort involved in helping Apple Pay get... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 15:16

The European Central Bank has published a new report on digital currencies, describing them as “inherently unstable” whilst remaining upbeat about the potentially transformative benefits they may offer in payments. The ECB study builds... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 12:34

The GSMA Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme has releases its 2014 State of the Industry Report on mobile financial services. Published annually, the report provides industry practitioners with insights... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 12:12

Celent has explored mobile technology and the breakthrough of mobile banking apps in the retail banking industry in Latin America, focusing on the top 10 institutions. The next logical move... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 11:54

Apple Pay has gained momentum quickly, in typical Apple fashion, with 2,000 financial institutions committed to support it, millions of cardholders actively enrolled, and two-thirds of all contactless transactions in... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 09:31

October 2015 marks a major milestone in the US payment industry’s migration to EMV as the liability shift comes into effect. After the liability shift, the party on a card... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 15:07

The Government of Egypt, represented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and MasterCard announced the details of a recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will aim to extend financial... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 10:35

PayPal has agreed to buy Paydiant. In an announcement on the PayPal website, Dan Schulman, PayPal President and CEO, said: “Today, I am excited to announce that we agreed to acquire... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 10:25

Ingenico has launched the RP170c, an audio jack-based mPOS dongle that can accept payments made by mobile phone. The RP170c offers support for both NFC/contactless and mag-stripe payments via a 3.5mm standard audio... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 11:49

Samsung has launched its latest flagship devices at Mobile World Congress, with its Galaxy S6 joined by Galaxy S6 edge – a smartphone with a curved display on both sides. While... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 10:22

The Board of SIA, meeting under the chairmanship of Giuliano Asperti, has approved the Financial Statement at 31 December 2014. The results achieved by SIA show a further improvement after... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 10:08

Accenture reported in ‘The Boom in Global Fintech Investment’ that London “has become the Fintech capital of Europe. Since 2004, the lion’s share of Europe’s Fintech deals and financing have... read more