24 Sep 13 @ 13:06

A new report from IHS Electronics & Media shows annual volumes of smart payment and banking cards shipped in China are forecast to increase to around 1.5 billion units in... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 14:42

Poste Italiane has signed an agreement with Payleven, a provider of mobile card payments, which makes the payleven mobile card payment product available for all clients of Banco Posta in Italy. The... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 12:09

SIX is underscoring its intention to push its international growth and become one of Europe’s leading providers for card-based payment services by acquiring PayLife GmbH, the Austrian market leader in the... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 12:02

In somewhat of a coup, Google Wallet has beaten Apple at its own game, launching Google Wallet for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch before the incumbent could launch its own wallet... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 11:41

Over the next five years, e-retail is set to grow by almost 50% and be worth over £50 billion in 2018, when one pound in every seven spent on retail... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 17:44

Mobile Wallet Initiative Austria has been launched by a group of financial, technology and telecoms companies. The new organisation aims to create an open nationwide standard for NFC mobile wallets.... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:46

As the number of mobile transactions made worldwide gathers increasing pace, the analysis and harmonisation of mobile payment standards by regulators should take precedence, said Phil Davies, managing director of... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:15

Fraud costs the UK economy £73 billion annually* and its impact on a business of any size potentially devastating. Therefore, Foregenix, is offering small to medium sized businesses its online... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:08

Visa Europe and Volkswagen Bank are offering a mobile payment platform as of September. 500 clients of Volkswagen Bank will trial mobile payments with their iPhone, in an initial testing... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 11:53

Spire Payments has a new product suite of POS devices from wireless and mobile, through fixed countertop to PIN pads for retail and other environments. Called the “SP” family of... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 11:31

France’s state-owned postal bank, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale are hoping to counter already dominant players such as eBay’s PayPal by teaming up to launch an electronic payments (e-payments) service. The... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:40

Nets, one of Europe’s leading companies in the area of digital money, digital information and digital identities and Europe’s second-largest card processor has selected Oberthur Technologies for its Trusted Service... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:26

High-tech acquirer for e-commerce and m-commerce merchants and PSPs, Credorax and ReD, a provider of fraud prevention services, have formed a strategic alliance offering integrated acquiring, payment processing and fraud... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:17

Portugal Telecom has selected CardMobili, a provider of advanced digital wallet solutions, to enable the mobile network operator’s digital wallet service. CardMobili will take a primary role in the implementation... read more

18 Sep 13 @ 11:42

Google was one of the earliest big-name companies to move in the developing mobile payments market, but Wallet – its flagship payments solution – had more or less disappeared from... read more

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