18 Mar 16 @ 10:07

Chase Bank Kenya, an innovative and fast-growing bank with an ambitious strategy across Africa, has successfully migrated its full card portfolio to the OpenWay WAY4 payment software platform from Electra... read more

18 Mar 16 @ 09:46

ACI will partner with Verifone to deliver a comprehensive pan-European payments platform for Auchan Group, one of Europe’s largest food retailers. Auchan relies on ACI’s market-leading, omni-channel UP Retailer Payments solution... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 12:39

Credit cards dominate the Hong Kong payment cards market in terms of transaction volume and value during the review period (2010-2014) – a trend which is expected to continue up... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 11:57

Vodacom South Africa reportedly considering various options for its sluggish mobile money transfer service M-Pesa. In 2010, Vodacom launched M-Pesa in South Africa and the company set a target of... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 11:48

ICICI Bank is set to roll out an HCE mobile payment solution to enable its credit and debit card customers to make payments with their smartphones at NFC-enabled terminal. The mobile payment solution... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:56

Mobile Maestro (called Bankomatkarte Mobil), an NFC mobile payment app enabled by Payment Services Austria (PSA) and supported by Austria Card, has launched. Following a successful field trial in Linz (Upper... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:30

The results of new research in the UK have revealed that 88% of Britons see cybercrime as now being as big a threat as offline crime, whilst 76% of people... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:16

The UK FinTech report, commissioned by HM Treasury and published last month, confirmed something we’re pretty much all agreed upon: “The UK is a global capital for FinTech”. Within FinTech,... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 11:55

Splitting a bill with friends at a restaurant, paying back half of a household bill to your partner, urgently sending money to your child studying in another European country…These are... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 10:22

Visa has launched a new feature for its online payment service, allowing users to authenticate a transaction by swiping an image of the card on the system. This service is best applicable for mobile... read more

15 Mar 16 @ 10:23

Samsung Pay has reported a loss of $16.8m (£11.8m) until now. Samsung Electronics reports that it views the platform as an investment for the future that will strengthen the competitive edge for... read more

14 Mar 16 @ 12:39

Capital One customers can now check their balances and pay their bills, voice-powered payments, talking to Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. The Alexa assistant works with Amazon’s FireTV and Echo smart speaker... read more

11 Mar 16 @ 11:46

Rising card payments drive economic growth. Payment cards are not just convenient but also play a crucial role in stimulating economic growth in countries around the world – according to... read more

11 Mar 16 @ 11:14

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said that 2015 would be the year of Apple Pay. As it turned out, 2015 was the year of mobile payments initiatives generally as technology... read more

11 Mar 16 @ 10:30

Miura Systems launched POSzle – a modular tablet Point of Sale (POS) bundle that also supports integrated payments. “Point of Sale desperately needs a reboot, according to our recent research... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:15

Banks are starting to experiment with a new way of reducing credit-card fraud: tracking their customers’ mobile phones. The principle is straightforward enough. People are wedded to their phones, so if... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 22:05

NFC mobile payments continue to grab headlines, but to really drive uptake and ensure full market coverage, combining contactless cards with next-gen mobile banking apps is surely the right way... read more

09 Mar 16 @ 09:17

Two of the US’s biggest banks, US Bank and Bank of America are to offer real-time, mobile P2P money transfers to consumer mobile phones over the clearXchange network. ClearXchange, operated by... read more