26 Sep 13 @ 09:33

Facebook has rolled out “Autofill With Facebook” feature in partnership with PayPal, Stripe and Braintree to put an end to all typing required while filling in billing details. The social media giant tested this application... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 09:18

In an aggressive move, in the increasingly noisy mobile POS market, SumUp, has announced a significant reduction of its transaction fee. In the UK, SumUp will cut its fee to... read more

24 Sep 13 @ 14:46

UniCredit has selected First Data Corporation to assist in the execution of its mobile payments strategy. UniCredit’s agreement with First Data will see the bank bring to market a number... read more

24 Sep 13 @ 14:19

Visa and MasterCard have agreed to cut the fees to process credit card transactions in France by almost half. The French Competition Authority announced the agreement with Visa and MasterCard in the wake of... read more

24 Sep 13 @ 14:13

Research firm Gartner expects the mobile-payments market to grow by 31% this year to $235.4 billion — and to increase by more than three-fold by 2017. For this reason, PayPal... read more

24 Sep 13 @ 13:06

A new report from IHS Electronics & Media shows annual volumes of smart payment and banking cards shipped in China are forecast to increase to around 1.5 billion units in... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 14:42

Poste Italiane has signed an agreement with Payleven, a provider of mobile card payments, which makes the payleven mobile card payment product available for all clients of Banco Posta in Italy. The... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 12:09

SIX is underscoring its intention to push its international growth and become one of Europe’s leading providers for card-based payment services by acquiring PayLife GmbH, the Austrian market leader in the... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 12:02

In somewhat of a coup, Google Wallet has beaten Apple at its own game, launching Google Wallet for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch before the incumbent could launch its own wallet... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 11:41

Over the next five years, e-retail is set to grow by almost 50% and be worth over £50 billion in 2018, when one pound in every seven spent on retail... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 17:44

Mobile Wallet Initiative Austria has been launched by a group of financial, technology and telecoms companies. The new organisation aims to create an open nationwide standard for NFC mobile wallets.... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:46

As the number of mobile transactions made worldwide gathers increasing pace, the analysis and harmonisation of mobile payment standards by regulators should take precedence, said Phil Davies, managing director of... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:15

Fraud costs the UK economy £73 billion annually* and its impact on a business of any size potentially devastating. Therefore, Foregenix, is offering small to medium sized businesses its online... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:08

Visa Europe and Volkswagen Bank are offering a mobile payment platform as of September. 500 clients of Volkswagen Bank will trial mobile payments with their iPhone, in an initial testing... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 11:53

Spire Payments has a new product suite of POS devices from wireless and mobile, through fixed countertop to PIN pads for retail and other environments. Called the “SP” family of... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 11:31

France’s state-owned postal bank, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale are hoping to counter already dominant players such as eBay’s PayPal by teaming up to launch an electronic payments (e-payments) service. The... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:40

Nets, one of Europe’s leading companies in the area of digital money, digital information and digital identities and Europe’s second-largest card processor has selected Oberthur Technologies for its Trusted Service... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:26

High-tech acquirer for e-commerce and m-commerce merchants and PSPs, Credorax and ReD, a provider of fraud prevention services, have formed a strategic alliance offering integrated acquiring, payment processing and fraud... read more