Daily News

25 Feb 14 @ 07:32

Joining the fray, Accenture says it has launched a new mobile wallet platform that features integrated advanced analytics and big data capabilities, recommendation tools and security elements to provide a modular platform... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 12:27

Working with its partners, Visa says it has doubled the availability of mobile payments services across Europe in the past 12 months.  Mobile payments are now available nationwide in several... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 11:57

PayPal has partnered with Samsung to launch wearable tech payments. The Gear 2 is Samsung wearable device. The watches come packed with an embedded camera and run on Tizen OS, a... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 11:47

MasterCard announced MasterPass in-app payments, enabling consumers to make secure purchases within a mobile app as it attempts to grab a piece of the fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry. In-app payments... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 11:28

GS1 have announced that they will be demonstrating the power of barcode scanning in evolving mobile devices using the widely speculated Google Glass platform. This demonstration, the first of its... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 15:47

The card payment fees that banks charge retailers for processing shoppers’ payments should be capped, Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs decided in a vote on Thursday. The cap would apply... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 15:25

ACI Worldwide  an international provider of electronic payment and banking systems,  has announced strengthened support for UnionPay, the largest card network in the world. ACI’s clearing solution, ACI Interchange, opens... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 15:20

Amazon has announced that its digital currency – Coins – are now open for use outside of Kindle Fire tablets. More specifically, the e-commerce giant says that its virtual currency... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 15:09

Capital One says that it has joined clearXchange, providing a large number of new potential end users to the bank-led p2p payments initiative. Capital One will become an owner of... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 13:49

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing its secure software platform to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), to enable secure contactless payment transactions with the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. In... read more

20 Feb 14 @ 10:03

In an interesting turn of events, Visa and MasterCard have announced their support for Host Card Emulation, a cloud-based mechanism for hosting NFC applications outside the Secure Element that effectively... read more

20 Feb 14 @ 08:50

Having recently launched in France, Orange has launched of Orange Cash in Spain, a rechargeable prepaid card from MasterCard that can be used within smartphones or as a traditional payment card. With Orange... read more