20 Oct 14 @ 12:55

MasterCard and Zwipe announced their partnership for the launch of the world’s first biometric contactless payment card featuring an integrated fingerprint sensor. The launch of the card comes after a successful... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 12:07

The European Payments Council (EPC) is to set up a host of new bodies to manage the Single euro payments area (SEPA) scheme and are calling for independent candidates to... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 11:59

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has folded six different businesses into a single business unit and changed the name of its Alipay financial services affiliate to... read more

17 Oct 14 @ 09:00

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) says it will begin a new initiative to integrate payments seamlessly into the Open Web Platform and help tackle fraud. W3C calls upon all industry stakeholders... read more

16 Oct 14 @ 11:00

A recent GfK survey in China, Germany, South Korea, the UK and the US indicates that people in these countries see potential in using smartwatches to ‘carry’ tickets for passenger... read more

16 Oct 14 @ 10:52

Financial services association, BAI has released preliminary findings from a survey which suggests online and mobile platforms are the leading focus of technology investments for retail banks as they move... read more

16 Oct 14 @ 10:20

MasterCard and Visa has recently released the technical specifications for tokenization. Tokenization is the next generation security for mobile cloud based payments and other secure mobile services. “We started the... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:26

Italian payment processor SIA has launched a SEPA-compliant smartphone-based mobile money transfer service, enabling users to send and receive money in real time to and from their phone contacts. The... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:23

Indian bank Kotak Mahindra (KMB) has unveiled a mobile money transfer service enabling Facebook users to make funds transfers to each other. The KayPay application utilises India’s Immediate Payment Service... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:17

Japanese social media messaging network Line has entered the payments market with a service for both online and in-store transactions. Line, which has 560 million registered users worldwide, will enable... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:12

The UK government is planning to put supervision of MasterCard and Visa alongside the UK’s main interbank payment systems under the remit of the new Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), which... read more

14 Oct 14 @ 09:00

On September 9, 2014, Apple announced Apple Pay along with the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch. Apple Pay is first available in the US, with international launch expected later. The... read more

13 Oct 14 @ 17:42

New Zealand banks ASB and BNZ are to launch a live pilot of a domestic  mobile wallet developed by NFS NZ, a joint venture company established by the country’s leading... read more

13 Oct 14 @ 17:21

A total of 205 billion card payments were made worldwide in 2013, a rise of 13% on 2012, according “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts 2013-2019”, a new report from... read more

10 Oct 14 @ 15:30

The recent card scheme cross border acquiring (CBA) concessions have created a new model for cross-border acquiring. By default they have become the European Commission’s ‘Plan A’ as a result... read more

10 Oct 14 @ 13:57

E-commerce merchants based outside of the UK could be losing out on vital global sales from Generation Y by failing to convert browsers into buyers at the checkout. New research[1]... read more

10 Oct 14 @ 11:00

As mobile money transfer services like Pingit and Paym gain traction, how will mobile remittances help drive mobile commerce? With all the focus on mobile payments and wallets, and the... read more

09 Oct 14 @ 13:57

CaixaBank, Spain’s innovative financial services provider, is preparing for its commercial launch of contactless EMV payment wristbands. These wearable banking devices, certified by the international payment schemes, give CaixaBank customers... read more