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payleven and Apple launch Chip & PIN card reader

30 May 13 @ 00:00

payleven says it is making its Chip & PIN card reader available for anyone to buy off the shelf in Apple retail stores and on the Apple online store across... read more

Trust: barrier to mobile retail and payment services

29 May 13 @ 00:00

MPayMe a Hong Kong-based mobile specialist and First Data announced a strategic alliance to offer mobile payment solutions in key markets in Asia Pacific. MPayMe and First Data will work... read more

100 thousand users – largest Hungarian mobile payment system

29 May 13 @ 00:00

As retailers endeavour to adopt multichannel customer interaction strategies, new research into British consumer behaviour and attitudes towards mobile interactions reveals that “trust” is the biggest barrier to the adoption... read more

MTS Russia deploys NFC SIM for mobile transport

29 May 13 @ 00:00

 Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest network operator with over 70 million subscribers is to deploy Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing solution in the... read more

Visa, MasterCard take gloves off in Interchange-Fee settlement quarrel

28 May 13 @ 00:00

Visa Inc and MasterCard  sued trade groups and retailers that rejected a $7.25 billion settlement in a price-fixing suit and asked a court to rule that the card companies’ fee practices weren’t... read more

Cautious UK spenders reach two-year low in overlimit cards

28 May 13 @ 00:00

FICO today released its quarterly UK cards data showing that the percentage of cards that are overlimit hit a two-year low. The latest data from the FICO Benchmark Reporting Service showed that... read more

Samport rolls out Ingenico payment solutions to the Nordics

28 May 13 @ 00:00

Ingenico announces that Samport, one of the fastest growing Payment Systems Providers (PSP) in the Nordic region has certified Ingenico’s full range of NFC-enabled mobile and countertop payment devices and... read more

DataCash and Redecard partner for e-commerce in Brazil

28 May 13 @ 00:00

Global payments provider, DataCash has announced that it is partnering with Redecard to provide the most complete e-commerce solution in Brazil, E-commerce Redecard. The partnership will result in a state of... read more

MasterCard select Kalixa for acquirer test cards globally

28 May 13 @ 00:00

Kalixa Group announced that it has been selected by MasterCard to issue a version of its award winning Kalixa Pay prepaid card to every newly accredited acquirer for testing. The card... read more

Société Générale Bank & Trust moves core banking systems to Cloud

24 May 13 @ 00:00

Luxembourg private bank Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT), subsidiary of Société Générale Group, has completed the migration of its mission-critical banking systems to a cloud computing architecture. The migration... read more

Top 10 Checks’ Guide to choosing the ideal Payment Service Provider

23 May 13 @ 00:00

According to Anderson Zaks organisations should actively take time out to review their approach to handling the growing number of consumer credit and debit card payments.  In a guide published today,... read more

MPayMe and First Data form strategic alliance

23 May 13 @ 00:00

Visa Europe announced two significant additions to its Visa Personal Payments mobile service: Multi-Currency and Immediate Payments. The new functions will enable consumers to make instant transactions from their mobile... read more

Square expands into Asia with Japan launch

23 May 13 @ 00:00

Square, the digital payments company, is launching in Japan, the company announced on Thursday. Japanese merchants can get a Square Reader for free and start accepting payments with it for 3.25%... read more

MPOS not just for micro merchants

23 May 13 @ 00:00

Handpoint launched its new Chip and PIN mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) system for small, medium and enterprise merchants. “Mobile Point-Of-Sale is not just for micro merchants,” says David Gudjonsson, CEO and... read more

WorldPay launches Bankout

23 May 13 @ 00:00

WorldPay has launched Bankout, a service that gives merchants the ability to make cost-effective, low-value cross-border payments with guaranteed amounts delivered to recipients and no receiving bank charges. Matched with WorldPay’s... read more

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

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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

UK Moves to Open iPhone Contactless Payments to Apple Pay Rivals

22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more