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China’s Sina plans to launch online banking services

22 Jul 13 @ 01:49

Sina, the Chinese tech giant behind microblogging platform Sina Weibo, announced that it will roll out an online banking platform in September. According to the Beijing News (h/t via Tech in Asia) the new... read more

U.S. Bank adds Square to its digital wallet options

22 Jul 13 @ 01:46

U.S. Bank announced that it has added Square to its digital wallet options available to customers via their iOS and Android smartphones. The announcement comes during a time when many in... read more

Société Générale launches its contactless payment service in Strasbourg

22 Jul 13 @ 01:45

Société Générale, one of the largest European financial services groups, announced that they launched the bank’s first NFC Visa payment service in Strasbourg, France relying on Oberthur Technologies’ Trusted Service... read more

Alaric selected by Heartland Payment Systems for fraud detection

22 Jul 13 @ 01:44

Alaric announced that one of the world’s largest payment processors, Heartland Payment Systems, has selected Alaric’s Fractals fraud prevention and detection product to monitor more than 300 million card transactions that it processes... read more

Government needs to embrace payments technologies

19 Jul 13 @ 02:19

UK citizens are being denied swift access to financial support and emergency payments because the Government has failed to grasp the opportunities now offered through emerging payments technologies from SMEs... read more

Cellum leverages mobile payment success to challenge paypal

16 Jul 13 @ 02:31

Cellum, a developer of mobile payment applications, laid down the gauntlet, announcing that they have achieved a game changing 84% conversion rate- far higher than incumbent solutions.  The company now... read more

Uniqul launch face recognition payment system

16 Jul 13 @ 02:30

“Imagine going in to a kiosk, picking up a newspaper at the cashier, clicking “Ok” on a Uniqul tablet and walking away. Imagine a day at the beach when you... read more

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

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Wero expands merchant payments in France with Orange

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill paymen... more

ECB and Brazil explore cross-border link between TIPS and Pix

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hu... more

US Bank tests its own Stablecoin for Cross-Border Payments

10 Sep 26 @ 15:44

US Bank has completed a live cross-border transaction using its own dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming one of the latest major lenders to test whether blockchai... more