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Isis mobile wallet gains rapid traction in US

15 May 14 @ 13:32

US, telco-backed, mobile wallet venture Isis is picking up steam, claiming 20,000 new wallet activations a day over the last month since launch. The Isis wallet – owned by AT&T... read more

TD Canada Trust adds NFC mobile payments to its app

15 May 14 @ 10:30

TD Canada Trust has added the capability to make small credit card purchases using NFC mobile payments for Rogers, Bell and TELUS customers in Canada. After the wide release of Rogers suretap... read more

Europe’s first biometric ATM shared network launched in Poland

14 May 14 @ 13:44

ITCARD a leading provider of banking services in Poland has launched the first biometric ATM shared network in Europe, called Planet Cash. By the end of this year the company... read more

Mobile application protection with industry first software secure element

14 May 14 @ 12:58

INSIDE Secure has announced at Cartes America the launch of MatrixSSE, a software secure element for mobile application protection including enterprise, entertainment and financial applications. The solution allows mobile applications... read more

Contactless payment card shipments continue to grow globally

13 May 14 @ 16:04

Contactless payment card shipments accelerated globally in 2013, according to figures released today by the Smart Payment Association (SPA) at an opening-day session at the CARTES America conference and exhibition in Las Vegas. In... read more

mPOS market continues to grow displacing traditional POS players

13 May 14 @ 13:58

The latest Smart Insights Report establishes that mPOS, the combination of smartphone convenience with the needs of the bank card acceptance at the point of sales, will account for 52... read more

India launches RuPay – national card payment network

13 May 14 @ 11:49

 who dedicated the payment network to the  taking on the global players like Visa and MasterCard. The new payment network developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a... read more

NFC Forum approves Clear2Pay test solutions

13 May 14 @ 09:58

Clear2Pay has announced that the NFC Forum, the non-profit industry association that advances NFC technology, approved its Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) and Simple NDEF Exchange Protocol (SNEP) Conformance Test... read more

Online shoppers fight back using alternative payment methods

12 May 14 @ 11:53

Frozen out and unable to benefit from exclusive online deals, 3.5 million shoppers1 are fighting back against credit refusal by finding alternative payment methods. An estimated 2.3 million shoppers were... read more

US EMV adoption faces hurdles

12 May 14 @ 11:46

The US may not complete the migration from magnetic-stripe cards to EMV chip cards until 2018 even though the EMV liability shift deadline for merchants and issuers arrives in 18... read more

Singapore ready for real-time payments

09 May 14 @ 15:00

Singapore is set to go live with its G3 Immediate Payments system, putting it in an elite club – alongside the UK, Sweden and Poland – of countries with a... read more

New York regulators heightened of banks’ cyber security

09 May 14 @ 09:30

US banking regulators have been warning banks for over a year to beef up their cyber security as attacks on financial institutions are becoming more frequent, sophisticated and widespread. According... read more

KDDI to offer au WALLET to 34 million users

08 May 14 @ 11:58

KDDI, a major Japanese mobile operator in partnership with MasterCard, announced the launch of the “au WALLET” prepaid card program for 34 million au-brand mobile network subscribers. This will be... read more

Visa and MasterCard to pay $4bn for continued Russian business

08 May 14 @ 10:11

As Russia begins to ramp up its own counter sanctions to the West, it has been revealed that Visa and MasterCard will have to pay nearly $4 billion in deposits... read more

Deutsche Telekom launches MyWallet smartphone wallet

08 May 14 @ 09:59

Deutsche Telekom customers can now make purchases with their smartphones with the launch of MyWallet which turns smartphones1 into digital wallets. The app, the digital payment card and an NFC... read more

EMVCo publishes latest EMV chip deployment figures

08 May 14 @ 09:42

EMVCo, owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay and Visa, facilitates worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions by managing and evolving the EMV chip Specifications and related... read more

Google to integrate Google Wallet into Google Glass

07 May 14 @ 09:09

Just days after FirstBank, a US regional bank from Boulder openly mocked Google Glass in a new video ad for its own mobile banking app, Google is working on a... read more

Amazon extends shopping cart to Twitter #AmazonCart

07 May 14 @ 08:57

In a new partnership, Amazon and Twitter have joined forces to offer a unique – but fairly specific-ability: If you see an Amazon product link on Twitter, you can now add... read more

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Visa tests the foundations of agentic payments in Europe

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial inte... more

Credit’s next competitive frontier beyond top of wallet

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. [caption id="attachment_52085" align="a... more

Visa and Fiserv partnership extends API-led acceptance platform

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more