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First Data Expands Relationship with SAV Credit

23 May 13 @ 00:00

First Data Corporation today announced that it has expanded its relationship with SAV Credit Limited, a leading specialist credit card provider in the United Kingdom. In addition to supporting all of... read more

German banks adopt Step2 for domestic payments

22 May 13 @ 00:00

EBA Clearing reveals seven German banks will use the Step2 payments system to process and clear their domestic payments, converting in the second half of 2013. A group of seven... read more

Telecom Italia and SIA testing mobile ticketing service via NFC

17 May 13 @ 00:00

Public transport companies TPER (Transport Passenger Emilia-Romagna), ANM Napoli, START Romagna, Telecom Italy and SIA Group have signed an agreement to develop and test a “mobile ticketing” platform enabling all... read more

BNP launches full-service mobile bank

17 May 13 @ 00:00

BNP Paribas is to tap rising demand for banking services by mobile phone users with the launch of a full-service dedicated mobile bank across four European countries. Hello Bank starts with zero customers... read more

Square reinvents the register with Square Stand

15 May 13 @ 00:00

Square has announced Square Stand, a beautiful new hardware for brick and mortar businesses that turns an iPad into a complete POS. With local businesses increasingly tearing out their old... read more

Eftpos announces contract to enable mobile payments

15 May 13 @ 00:00

Eftpos Australia says it will begin mobile payments trials with selected Australian retailers in the next few months. Eftpos – which is owned by 14 of country’s largest banks and retailers – accounts... read more

EU Commission says Visa Europe offers to cut inter-bank fees

14 May 13 @ 00:00

Visa Europe has offered to cap its inter-bank credit card fees at 0.3% of transaction value for four years, the same level as the rival MasterCard  network, to end a... read more

Survey reveals industry expectations for contactless are overambitious

14 May 13 @ 00:00

A survey conducted by Compass Plus has revealed that the reality of the mass adoption of contactless payments is much further behind industry expectations. The survey, in which UK residents... read more

Monitise mPOS payment service

14 May 13 @ 00:00

Monitise has launched Monitise mPOS a white-labelled mobile payment service for banks, mobile operators and acquirers to offer their business customers the ability to accept card payments on a mobile... read more

30% of online shoppers prefer to pay with cash

14 May 13 @ 00:00

According to the latest research from Ukash, the online cash payment provider, a third of online shoppers would prefer to be able to use cash when buying from websites. Interestingly,... read more

First Data merchant solutions launches merchant cash advance in the UK

13 May 13 @ 00:00

First Data Merchant Solutions, First Data’s direct-to-market merchant acquiring business, today announced the availability of its Merchant Cash Advance programme in the UK, which allows small and medium sized businesses... read more

MasterCard to Power Nigerian Identity Card Program

09 May 13 @ 00:00

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and MasterCard have announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment... read more

Branch closures result in customer losses

09 May 13 @ 00:00

Branch closures result in customer losses according to a recent survey by SYNERGISTICS Research entitled, Branches in a Digital Age.  In response to branch closures during the past year, three... read more

China set to overtake the USA as the world’s largest ATM market

09 May 13 @ 00:00

The Chinese ATM market is already huge, but that did not stop it expanding by 76,000 ATMs in 2012 to reach 415,000 – two and a half times its size... read more

UK’s Sainsbury’s Bank selects FIS as retail banking technology partner

08 May 13 @ 00:00

FIS has been selected by Sainsbury’s Bank as the bank’s technology partner for all its retail banking operations. Under the terms of this strategic multi-year arrangement, FIS will provide real-time core... read more

VocaLink celebrates five years of Faster Payments

08 May 13 @ 00:00

VocaLink, the international payments provider, is celebrating the five year anniversary of the Faster Payments Service in the UK, with 2.5 billion transactions securely processed since its launch in 2008.... read more

Chase enhances Jot mobile application

07 May 13 @ 00:00

Today, Ink from Chase, the business card portfolio from Chase Card Services, announced a new receipt capture capability exclusively for Jot, a free mobile application and online tool designed to... read more

eMerchantPay extends its Fraud capabilities with IRIS

07 May 13 @ 00:00

eMerchantPay, the trusted global leader in international payment processing for e-commerce, recurring payments, virtual terminals and more announced today its partnership with IRIS Analytics, a provider of fraud prevention solutions... read more

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Copilot Checkout signals Microsoft’s push into agentic commerce

12 Jan 26 @ 17:59

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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