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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 Sep 13 @ 11:38

Mobile Money, a mobile banking initiative by mobile operator MTN that uses Pick n Pay and Boxer stores as branches, has reached a million customers and processed more than R1... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 11:06

Australian-listed mobile payments and transactions processing company, Mint Wireless, has sealed a deal to deliver its PayClip mobile payments solution to the Bank of New Zealand. Under the agreement with... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 10:52

Estimote has been showing off its Beacon technology, which allows retailers to communicate and interact with customers in-store. Apple, as part of the iOS 7 launch, unveiled iBeacon, enabling Bluetooth-enabled... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 10:34

Zapp and WorldPay announced a strategic partnership that will plan to make Zapp’s mobile payment solution available to WorldPay’s thousands of merchants. Getting more customers through the checkout process securely... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 10:20

Ecobank Nigeria and the Ekiti State government have commenced the disbursement of funds to over 2,250 residents earmarked in the State as the first set of beneficiaries of the Federal... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 10:08

Yalamanchili, has launched a white label mobile wallet application for global banking and financial institutions operating on its next generation payments platform. The wallet provides clients with a fully customisable... read more

11 Sep 13 @ 12:49

PayPal announced PayPal Beacon, a low-powered Bluetooth device that will allow consumers to automatically check-in at local stores. The company descibes it as a “complete hands free experience” that will... read more

11 Sep 13 @ 12:14

Making purchases with a smartphone is gaining a foothold in Hong Kong, and it has changed the habits of Sunny Cheung Yiu-tong, a die-hard fan of smart cards. Octopus Cards,... read more

11 Sep 13 @ 11:54

The Tribunal de Bobigny has awarded BancTec, a global leader in document management solutions and outsourcing services, the payment contracts and associated assets of Safig, a leading French document processing... read more