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M-Pesa mobile money transfer goes global with MoneyGram deal

03 Mar 14 @ 10:41

Safaricom’s push to take its mobile money transfer business global has received another boost with the signing of a deal that will see users of MoneyGram send cash directly to... read more

G&D enables contactless payment in Australia

21 Feb 14 @ 13:49

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing its secure software platform to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), to enable secure contactless payment transactions with the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. In... read more

P2P Transfer of Bitcoins via payment card

16 Jan 14 @ 11:28

SmartMetric, a developer of patented payment card technology and in-card biometric products, announced that its soon-to-launch SmartMetric Biometric Bitcoin Card, the world’s first biometric, fingerprint secured, off-line storage platform for... read more

£3.2m equity finance investment for secure chip provider Thames Card Technology

08 Jan 14 @ 09:51

Thames Card Technology (TCT), one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of secure chip credit, debit, prepaid, gift and loyalty cards, announced growth capital investment of £3.2 million from independent UK... read more

Disruption to payments systems as SEPA deadline looms

25 Oct 13 @ 11:01

The European Central Bank has warned companies that are stalling on updating their systems that the SEPA deadline is fast approaching and that big-bang upgrades will cause significant problems to... read more

Apple add fingerprint reader to iPhone 5s

11 Sep 13 @ 09:30

Apple has built a fingerprint reader into its new flagship smartphone, the iPhone 5s, calling the technology Touch ID. There are a few different fingerprint-sensor technologies out there, with optical and capacitance readers... read more

First Data and Raiffeisen Polbank extend processing agreement in Poland

26 Jul 13 @ 01:34

First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, has today announced the extension of its contract with Raiffeisen Polbank, one of its five largest customers in... read more

China’s Sina plans to launch online banking services

22 Jul 13 @ 01:49

Sina, the Chinese tech giant behind microblogging platform Sina Weibo, announced that it will roll out an online banking platform in September. According to the Beijing News (h/t via Tech in Asia) the new... read more

Riskskill Warns of a ‘Cocktail’ of risks

16 Jul 13 @ 02:24

Leading corporate risk prevention consultancy and analyst Riskskill, a division of UKFraud (www.ukfraud.co.uk), is warning that the expected rapid growth of the global mobile payments market will create a potential... read more

African banking expansion shows no signs of abating

27 Jun 13 @ 00:00

Retail banks in Sub-Saharan Africa have expanded their activities on the continents as never before over the past six years, with the crisis barely slowing them down. Whilst this mass... read more

Payments Council posts blueprint for UK’s payments infrastructure

17 Jun 13 @ 00:00

The publication of the first ever Payments Roadmap – An Initial Report today (17 June 2013), spells out the Payments Council’s revolutionary approach towards assessing the options for building on the world... read more

Datacard Group Announces the ultimate platform for Intelligent Card Issuance

26 Mar 13 @ 00:00

Datacard Group, the world leader in secure ID and card personalization solutions, today announced the enhancement of its Datacard MX Series Platform  for central card issuance programs worldwide with the introduction... read more

China Unicom selects Gemalto in China’s first NFC payment service

27 Feb 13 @ 00:00

Gemalto announced that its UpTeq NFC SIM card has been selected by China Unicom to secure its mobile wallet program. China Unicom is the nation’s second-largest wireless operator, with more than 220... read more

New European cybercrime centre (ec3) to tackle rising trend in payment card fraud

08 Jan 13 @ 00:00

Europol today publishes its Situation Report on Payment Card Fraud in the European Union, based on the analysis of intelligence provided by law enforcement agencies and other key operational partners. Although... read more

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Wero expands merchant payments in France with Orange

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill paymen... more

ECB and Brazil explore cross-border link between TIPS and Pix

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hu... more

US Bank tests its own Stablecoin for Cross-Border Payments

10 Sep 26 @ 15:44

US Bank has completed a live cross-border transaction using its own dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming one of the latest major lenders to test whether blockchai... more