27 Mar 14 @ 23:40

Barclaycard is jumping onto the mPOS bandwagon with its launch of an app and card reader. Aimed at smaller merchants and large firms with mobile sales forces, Barclaycard Anywhere will... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:37

Kalixa Group has expanded into the North and Latin American markets, with new offices in New York, US, and Sao Paolo, Brazil. The company will lead its charge into North... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:36

Handelsbanken is entering the mPOS fray by offering VeriFone-built chip and PIN card readers to Sweden’s micro merchants. Under a deal with VeriFone-owned Point, Handelsbanken will offer a branded chip... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:35

Roam, an Ingenico company and mobile commerce platform provider, has expanded its mPOS solutions to include chip and PIN acceptance with the RP750x mobile card reader. This new cloud-based solution... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:33

The major US card issuers have undertaken a wave of mass credit and debit card reissuance following the Target data breach in late 2013 which affected around 40 million credit... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:29

UK consumers are concerned that draft legislation currently being discussed by the EU over interchange will make it more expensive to pay by card, impacting upon the growing trend for... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:26

The 7th annual Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) event, held in Berlin between 18th-20th February, attracted over 520 participants, 94 presenters, 29 sponsors and 24 exhibitors. The main theme of this... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:21

Competition among banks to gain new customers, and campaigns to replace low-value cash transactions with card payments, have driven significant levels of card issuance and rising card usage in Europe,... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:17

Global shipments of mobile phones equipped with NFC technology will surge by more than a factor of four from 2013 to 2018, reaching 1.2 billion units, according to IHS Technology.... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:13

Throughout 2013 Visa cardholders used their contactless cards to make more than 94.3 million purchases in the UK compared to just under 25 million contactless purchases in 2012.  Contactless purchases... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:09

Four Asian telcos have formed an NFC alliance to ensure cross-border compatibility of mobile payment systems and branding. Japan’s KDDI, Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), Hong Kong Telecommunication and Korea’s SK Planet... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:08

French telco Orange and Visa Europe have announced the commercial launch of Orange Cash in Caen and Strasbourg, two of the cities with the highest use of contactless payments in... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:07

MasterCard has announced a collaboration between German telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland, Vodafone and TREVICA to create a new mobile platform and accelerate the development of mobile payments in Germany.... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:06

Bus users in central London will no longer be able to pay for their fares with notes and coins from the summer of 2014, as UK transit body Transport for... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:05

The bank-led mobile payment scheme Digicash has launched a pilot project using the Beacon model in Luxembourg.  Digicash devices at POS combine Bluetooth, NFC and QR codes. For customers, this... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:04

Google Wallet is speeding up the migration to host card emulation (HCE) by announcing that from 14 April, devices with Android versions older than the KitKat OS will no longer... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:02

The global community for mobile content and commerce (MEF) has released the first report in its Global Consumer Insights Series on Mobile Money. The report analyses data from 10,000 respondents... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:01

MasterCard and cloud-based solution provider Syniverse have joined forces to deliver a number of mobile and payment services to mobile users when they are travelling abroad. The two companies are... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 23:00

Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), the merchant-led US mobile payment platform, will add Paydiant’s cloud-based, white label platform to its custom developed mobile commerce infrastructure. MCX merchants represent more than 70... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 22:59

Apple is preparing to take on the likes of Google and PayPal by launching a mobile wallet service for iPhone, iPad and iTunes users, according to the Wall Street Journal... read more