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Visa Europe, RBS and NatWest launch contactless payments

05 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Visa Europe announced that contactless cards will be rolled out to RBS and NatWest cardholders in the UK. Over 2 million eligible RBS and NatWest customers will receive a contactless... read more

mPowa signs up Portugal Telecom

05 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Competition and activity continues to heat up in the mobile payments market. mPowahas signed a white-label deal with Portugal Telecom for the carrier to resell mPowa’s services as the centerpiece of its own... read more

Bank of Ireland make big P2P play

05 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Bank of Ireland has stolen a march on its local and UK counterparts by going live with a new service that lets its banking customers transfer cash in a way... read more

Virgin Holidays offers customers 24-hour access to accounts

05 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Virgin Holidays, the UK’s market-leading long-haul holiday company, has deployed interactive voice response (IVR) technology from Encoded to offer customers an automated payment option when booking holidays, adding excursions and... read more

G2 Web Services and Sysnet announce their PCI DSS partnership

05 Feb 13 @ 00:00

The partnership will enable G2 Web Services to integrate Sysnet’s PCI DSS compliance solutions into the full suite of services it currently offers to more than 200 acquiring clients globally... read more

Visa expands US roadmap for EMV chip adoption

04 Feb 13 @ 00:00

 Visa Inc. announced its support for a common U.S. debit solution and an expansion of Visa’s previously announced roadmap for EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa) chip card adoption in the United States to include a migration... read more

Trends in Transaction Banking: A Global Survey

04 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Transaction banking has outperformed investment and commercial banking in terms of revenue growth in the post-financial crisis period. To better position themselves for success, 82% of banks surveyed have reorganized... read more

Euro Commerce: The time is right for a European Retail Action Plan

01 Feb 13 @ 00:00

The Commission has published a package consisting of a communication on a European Retail Action Plan and a Green Paper on unfair trading practices in the supply chains for food... read more

Western Union extends its money transfer receive card

01 Feb 13 @ 00:00

The Western Union Company announced that it has extended its prepaid receive card program to Costa Rica and Guatemala. The card, launched in El Salvador last year, strategically leverages the... read more

Combining credit card and debit card rewards a hit with consumers

31 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Consumers respond positively to a combined rewards program for credit and debit cards.  According to a recent survey by  SYNERGISTICS Research entitled, Re-Engineering Credit Card Programs, three-quarters (75%) of Internet... read more

Russia’s universal electronic card goes live

31 Jan 13 @ 00:00

BPC Banking Technologies announces the completion of the processing center implementation for Russia’s Universal Electronic Card (UEC) – one of the key components of the e-government project. As per the... read more

Mobile Commerce – essential for retailers as consumer confidence soars

31 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Mobile commerce is driving more and more sales for British e-businesses, according to an industry-leading survey by payment processor, Sage Pay. The third annual Sage Pay e-Business Benchmark Report of... read more

Consumer confidence in mobile commerce at all time high

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group a management and technology consulting firm serving the financial services industry, has released its mobile wallet review. CG assessed a representative group of 20 mobile... read more

Neomobile bring one-click payments to Opera Mini

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

BuzzCity has issues its latest quarterly report on the current trends dominating the global mobile advertising industry. The report reveals the appetite for mobile commerce is at an all-time high,... read more

Mobile commerce breathes life into UK business growth

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Opera Software and Neomobile will work together to bring mobile payments to users of Neomobile services and the Opera Mini mobile browser. As part of the agreement with Opera Commerce,... read more

Retail industry believes Google most likely to win mobile wallet war

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

A recent survey released by ACI Worldwide reveals that the retail industry is bracing for transition as mobile payments, EMV migration deadlines and questions over PCI data security standards dominate... read more

Mobile Banking trends in China

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

The number of mobile banking users in China reached 150 million in 2012, accounting for more than 40% of mobile banking users worldwide. Major commercial banks saw more than 100%... read more

WorldPay and Vindicia partnership targets international payment acceptance for digital merchants

30 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Vindicia and WorldPay announced a partnership to deliver enhanced payment acceptance capability to Vindicia’s digital eCommerce merchants. The alliance integrates WorldPay’s payment processing capabilities into Vindicia’s billing platform, CashBox, which is specifically... read more

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Visa launches Intelligence Commerce Connect tool

14 Apr 26 @ 20:03

Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven s... more

American Express launches agentic commerce developer kit

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend produ... more

Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more