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China UnionPay to launch NFC mobile-payment

16 Jul 13 @ 02:28

Chinese bank card network China UnionPay has announced plans to introduce a mobile-payment service using an NFC-enabled Android phone from HTC. The phone, reported by Taiwan’s Central News Agency as the HTC... read more

BANAMEX in Mexico launch mPOS

16 Jul 13 @ 02:27

BANAMEX became the first bank from the American continent to launch iAcepta Móvil Banamex, an application developed by Stratus Technologies Mexico called S-Pay mobile POS, which is compatible with handheld... read more

MCX taps FIS to power mobile commerce network

16 Jul 13 @ 02:25

Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) says it has selected FIS to provide a suite of services that will help bring its much-anticipated mobile commerce solution to the marketplace. FIS will provide... read more

Riskskill Warns of a ‘Cocktail’ of risks

16 Jul 13 @ 02:24

Leading corporate risk prevention consultancy and analyst Riskskill, a division of UKFraud (www.ukfraud.co.uk), is warning that the expected rapid growth of the global mobile payments market will create a potential... read more

Government initiatives to bolster growth of cards and payments industry in Azerbaijan

16 Jul 13 @ 02:23

Government efforts to promote cashless transactions have contributed to the steady growth of the cards and payments industry in Azerbaijan up to 2012. According to Timetric, continued support from the... read more

Raiffeisen Bank International selects WAY4 for processing centre upgrade

16 Jul 13 @ 02:22

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) with presence in 17 markets, has chosen OpenWay’s WAY4 platform to upgrade and enhance the issuing and acquiring services offered by its European processing centre to... read more

DBS Partners with ACI Worldwide to deliver Online Banking Platform

16 Jul 13 @ 02:21

ACI Worldwide announced that it has partnered with DBS to deliver an online banking platform to corporates in Asia. DBS selected ACI Universal Online Banker and ACI Global Trade Manager... read more

Braintree collaborates with Simple

11 Jul 13 @ 02:34

Braintree announced it will offer Venmo Touch to card issuers and mobile banking providers, delivering one touch mobile payments to their customers. Braintree is collaborating with Simple, a leader in online and mobile banking,... read more

UK banks unveil Zapp mobile payments system

08 Jul 13 @ 02:38

VocaLink has today unveiled a new mobile payment service backed by the UK’s major high-street lenders, which provides the infrastructure behind Bacs, Direct Debit and Mobile Top-Up. VocaLink, owned by... read more

Australian banks and KPMG develop new Payments Platform

08 Jul 13 @ 02:38

The payments industry has begun a collaborative program to develop new, fast, flexible and data-rich payments infrastructure for Australia.  The program commenced with the first meeting of the New Payments... read more

EE bringing ‘Cash on Tap’ NFC to UK

08 Jul 13 @ 02:36

EE – currently the UK’s only 4G carrier, unveiled that it will be bringing NFC payment capability to its pay monthly customers with a service it’s calling ‘Cash on Tap’.... read more

TSYS provide debit payment services for KBC Bank Ireland

08 Jul 13 @ 02:35

TSYS announced that it has signed a multi-year payments agreement with KBC Bank Ireland (KBC) to launch its debit card portfolio in Ireland. The KBC portfolio will be processed on... read more

EE bringing ‘Cash on Tap’ NFC to UK

08 Jul 13 @ 00:00

EE – currently the UK’s only 4G carrier, unveiled that it will be bringing NFC payment capability to its pay monthly customers with a service it’s calling ‘Cash on Tap’.... read more

Alaric positioned in the Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection

03 Jul 13 @ 02:43

Alaric has been positioned by Gartner in the “Niche” quadrant of the Web Fraud Detection report.(1) The Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant is composed of vendors that provide software products or... read more

UK Government urged to allow mobile cheque deposit

03 Jul 13 @ 02:41

Three quarters of Brits (75%) want to deposit cheques by photographing them on their smartphones but are being denied by out of touch regulation, according to research by Intelligent Environments. ... read more

Barclays Kenya adopts Pingit App for mobile banking

03 Jul 13 @ 02:40

Barclays Bank of Kenya has launched a mobile banking App (BarclaysKenya) with similar functionality to its full online banking platform. The App is free to use and will be accessed... read more

Increase in fraud fails to stifle Bulgarian cards and payments market

02 Jul 13 @ 02:47

The cards and payments industry in Bulgaria is expected to expand over the next four years despite credit card fraud in the nation reaching its highest ever level last year.... read more

37% of European consumers use mobile banking

02 Jul 13 @ 02:46

More than a third (37%) of almost 12,000 internet users surveyed in 12 European countries are already using mobile banking – and many credit the technology with providing more control... read more

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Copilot Checkout signals Microsoft’s push into agentic commerce

12 Jan 26 @ 17:59

Microsoft has taken a decisive step towards embedding agentic commerce directly into generative AI, partnering with PayPal, Stripe and Shopify to launch Copilot... more

Trump proposes credit card rate cap

12 Jan 26 @ 22:01

President Donald Trump’s renewed push to impose a one-year cap of 10 per cent on US credit card interest rates has jolted financial markets and reopened a lon... more