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Mobile payments regulation must be a priority

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

Fraud Threat Alert for free

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

Visa Europe launches NFC payments with Volkswagen Bank

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

Spire payments launch “sp” line of POS terminals

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

French banks team up for e-payments fight

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

Nets selects Oberthur to deploy mobile contactless solutions

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

Credorax and ReD partner on fraud prevention services

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

Portugal Telecom enters digital wallet market

20 Sep 13 @ 10:17

Portugal Telecom has selected CardMobili, a provider of advanced digital wallet solutions, to enable the mobile network operator’s digital wallet service. CardMobili will take a primary role in the implementation... read more

Google expands wallet service

18 Sep 13 @ 11:42

Google was one of the earliest big-name companies to move in the developing mobile payments market, but Wallet – its flagship payments solution – had more or less disappeared from... read more

Mobile money transfer users approach 400 million

18 Sep 13 @ 10:49

Nearly 400 million mobile phone users worldwide are expected to use their handsets for mobile money transfer by 2018, up from just under 150 million this year, according to a... read more

Financial Inclusion Study spotlights Europe’s financially excluded

17 Sep 13 @ 10:03

MasterCard today launched the Road to Inclusion, a report which shows preconceptions of the financially excluded are wide of the mark, based on a new financial inclusion study that is the... read more

State Bank of India launches Xpress Money Visa Card

17 Sep 13 @ 09:25

State Bank of India has chosen global payments solutions provider, Yalamanchili, to provide the payment processing platform behind its recently launched State Bank Xpress Money Card, which enables customers to... read more

Sepa direct debit exception handling guidance

17 Sep 13 @ 09:18

A Sepa migration forum facilitated by the Euro Banking Association has set out its best practice guidelines on direct debit exception handling. The Sepa migration action round table (Smart) presented... read more

Central Bank live with Fundtech’s compliance filtering solution

17 Sep 13 @ 09:13

Fundtech, a market leader in global transaction banking solutions, today announced that Swiss National Bank is live with Fundtech’s compliance filtering solution, Global Compliance Plus. Global Compliance Plus leverages Fundtech’s... read more

Global Non-Cash Payments Expected to Top 333 Billion – World Payments Report 2013

16 Sep 13 @ 17:30

Global non-cash payments volumes are expected to top 333 billion transactions in 2012 after transactions grew by 8.8% in 2011, according to the latest available data from the World Payments... read more

NSA spied on Visa and SWIFT transactions

16 Sep 13 @ 16:56

The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT... read more

Visa Europe selects SunTec’s advanced revenue management and billing solution

16 Sep 13 @ 15:56

SunTec announced today that Visa Europe will deploy its new Xelerate Card Services suite. Visa Europe, a payments technology business owned and operated by member banks and other payment service... read more

Barclays makes big mobile payment push

16 Sep 13 @ 11:58

Barclays has launched two new features within its mobile app, Barclays Pingit; ‘mobile checkout’, a payment feature for quick and easy purchases from a mobile web or app checkout page;... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more