21 Mar 14 @ 11:52

American Express  has bought a minority stake in Indian mPOS provider Ezetap Mobile Solutions. Ezetap has deployed 12,000 devices across South East Asia and Africa, will use the funds to... read more

21 Mar 14 @ 11:12

As the Russian stock market collapses in the wake of US sanctions, closely followed by the EU,  Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc have stopped, without notification, providing services for payment... read more

20 Mar 14 @ 15:48

MasterPass is now available in Italy. Following its success in the US, Australia, Canada and the UK, MasterPass is now debuting in Italy thanks to agreements with the country’s major... read more

20 Mar 14 @ 11:51

Worldline, Atos subsidiary in e-payment services, has expanded its online payment platform with SOFORT Banking direct payment method. This will enable online merchants across Europe to benefit from a new... read more

19 Mar 14 @ 11:00

Irish consumers continued to change their payment habits in 2013, switching to debit card usage and reducing the number of cheques used when paying for goods and services. Since 2005,... read more

19 Mar 14 @ 10:48

MasterCard is eyeing a slice of the expected exponential growth from the emerging African market in coming years, particularly as mobile payments surge, Aaron Oliver, the head of emerging payments... read more

18 Mar 14 @ 17:40

Google has announced via email that it will kill off NFC payment service functionality in April for anything below Android 4.4 (device that don’t have Kit Kat – Android 4.4+). In other... read more

18 Mar 14 @ 09:52

The Target, Neiman Marcus, Michael’s Stores breach trifecta may have finally galvanized the US card payment industry to consider strongly EMV in the US. Too bad consumers are poised to change... read more

18 Mar 14 @ 09:35

SmartDisplayer Technology , a leader in display card technology has announced the launch of its new generation smartcard iCard4 – the most powerful smartcard on the planet. iCard4, says the... read more

17 Mar 14 @ 15:54

The UK’s Transport for London say that us passengers have been wrongly charged thousands of pounds because of a contactless glitch in the payment system. Almost 1,800 commuters have been... read more

17 Mar 14 @ 12:44

Google says it has updated its Android and iOS Google Wallet apps to enable shoppers to automatically track their online orders. Once users activate ‘orders’ in Google Wallet they can... read more

14 Mar 14 @ 12:37

New figures released on UK fraud by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show that levels of card and online banking fraud rose during 2013. Improved fraud detection and prevention... read more

14 Mar 14 @ 11:01

Bank-led mobile payment scheme Digicash has launched a pilot-project using the Beacon model in Luxembourg –  the first mobile payments using SEPA Credit Transfers. Digicash Beacon devices at POS combine... read more

13 Mar 14 @ 16:07

While the mobile channel grows in importance and revenue for merchants, so does their fear of fraudulent attacks and the realization that combating that risk requires specialized tools. Those are... read more

13 Mar 14 @ 12:53

The latest figures from Visa Europe show that throughout 2013 Visa cardholders used their contactless cards to make more than 94.3 million purchases in the UK compared to just under... read more

13 Mar 14 @ 11:30

New York’s financial regulator has said firms can submit proposals to set up “regulated”  digital currency exchanges like Bitcoin. The state’s Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said it wanted to... read more

13 Mar 14 @ 09:20

FICO released its quarterly UK cards data showing that average spend on “classic,” non-premium credit cards hit a 10-year high in December 2013. In addition, the proportion of classic UK credit... read more

12 Mar 14 @ 16:13

In its latest Threats Report security specialists McAfee Labs say they have identified 200 new malware samples per minute, or more than three new threats every second, during 2013, which... read more

12 Mar 14 @ 15:57

Hang Seng Bank is to join forces with mobile operators including HKT to strengthen the mobile payment ecosystem and offer customers the convenience of NFC to tap and pay for small... read more

12 Mar 14 @ 15:22

Visa and MasterCard have been in court to fight the EMV patent litigation they face from SmartMetric, Inc. SmartMetric is the owner of an issued United States Patent & Trademark Office patent... read more