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Orange Poland and mBank to launch mobile financial services

21 Mar 14 @ 12:04

The Polish arm of Orange will work with mBank to provide mobile financial services to smartphone and tablet users in Poland in H2 2014, according to several published reports. Germany-based... read more

American Express invests in Indian mPOS provider Ezetap

21 Mar 14 @ 11:52

American Express  has bought a minority stake in Indian mPOS provider Ezetap Mobile Solutions. Ezetap has deployed 12,000 devices across South East Asia and Africa, will use the funds to... read more

Visa, MasterCard stop providing payments services as US sanctions kick in

21 Mar 14 @ 11:12

As the Russian stock market collapses in the wake of US sanctions, closely followed by the EU,  Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc have stopped, without notification, providing services for payment... read more

MasterCard launches MasterPass in Italy

20 Mar 14 @ 15:48

MasterPass is now available in Italy. Following its success in the US, Australia, Canada and the UK, MasterPass is now debuting in Italy thanks to agreements with the country’s major... read more

Worldline enhances online payment platform

20 Mar 14 @ 11:51

Worldline, Atos subsidiary in e-payment services, has expanded its online payment platform with SOFORT Banking direct payment method. This will enable online merchants across Europe to benefit from a new... read more

Irish debit card usage quadruples while cheque usage halves

19 Mar 14 @ 11:00

Irish consumers continued to change their payment habits in 2013, switching to debit card usage and reducing the number of cheques used when paying for goods and services. Since 2005,... read more

MasterCard prepares for exponential African growth

19 Mar 14 @ 10:48

MasterCard is eyeing a slice of the expected exponential growth from the emerging African market in coming years, particularly as mobile payments surge, Aaron Oliver, the head of emerging payments... read more

A global move towards real–time payment systems

19 Mar 14 @ 09:29

The World Bank conducted a survey in 2010 to better understand the Outcomes of the global payment systems. 6 key factors were identified as having triggered the reform of payment... read more

Google Wallet stops NFC payment service

18 Mar 14 @ 17:40

Google has announced via email that it will kill off NFC payment service functionality in April for anything below Android 4.4 (device that don’t have Kit Kat – Android 4.4+). In other... read more

Bain and Advent in exclusive talks to buy card payment firm Nets

18 Mar 14 @ 15:21

Private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital have entered exclusive talks to buy Danish card payment services company Nets Holding for more than €2 billion ($2.8 billion), two people familiar... read more

EMV in the US… too little, too late?

18 Mar 14 @ 09:52

The Target, Neiman Marcus, Michael’s Stores breach trifecta may have finally galvanized the US card payment industry to consider strongly EMV in the US. Too bad consumers are poised to change... read more

iCard4 is the most powerful smartcard on the planet

18 Mar 14 @ 09:35

SmartDisplayer Technology , a leader in display card technology has announced the launch of its new generation smartcard iCard4 – the most powerful smartcard on the planet. iCard4, says the... read more

Contactless glitch charges wrong card – thousands ‘pay twice’

17 Mar 14 @ 15:54

The UK’s Transport for London say that us passengers have been wrongly charged thousands of pounds because of a contactless glitch in the payment system. Almost 1,800 commuters have been... read more

Google Wallet gets order tracking update

17 Mar 14 @ 12:44

Google says it has updated its Android and iOS Google Wallet apps to enable shoppers to automatically track their online orders. Once users activate ‘orders’ in Google Wallet they can... read more

52 million mPOS to be delivered in 2018

17 Mar 14 @ 12:37

According to a Smart Insights Report, mPOS shipments are expected to keep growing in the next years at a CAGR of 40% between 2013 and 2018, leading to 52.1 million... read more

UK fraud increases

14 Mar 14 @ 12:37

New figures released on UK fraud by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show that levels of card and online banking fraud rose during 2013. Improved fraud detection and prevention... read more

Digicash launches Beacon mobile payments using SEPA Credit Transfers

14 Mar 14 @ 11:01

Bank-led mobile payment scheme Digicash has launched a pilot-project using the Beacon model in Luxembourg –  the first mobile payments using SEPA Credit Transfers. Digicash Beacon devices at POS combine... read more

Mobile Payments and Fraud survey

13 Mar 14 @ 16:07

While the mobile channel grows in importance and revenue for merchants, so does their fear of fraudulent attacks and the realization that combating that risk requires specialized tools. Those are... 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