26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

Kalixa Group, DeviceFidelity and MasterCard have announced the UK launch of the moneto prepaid wallet. The wallet enables NFC functionality on an iPhone, allowing users to tap and pay for... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 13:20

Oberthur Technologies has been selected by Movistar Chile, a major mobile operator in Latin America, and Banco Santander Chile, one of the largest retail and commercial banks in Latin America,... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 12:14

Proposed caps on debit and credit interchange across the EU have drawn strong responses from players on all sides of the industry. Has the Commission fully understood what it is... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 10:13

The number of payment cards worldwide increased by 12% in 2012 to reach a landmark 10 billion, according to a new report from research and consulting firm Retail Banking Research... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 09:18

In an aggressive move, in the increasingly noisy mobile POS market, SumUp, has announced a significant reduction of its transaction fee. In the UK, SumUp will cut its fee to... 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

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

03 Sep 13 @ 15:50

Movistar Chile, a major mobile operator in Latin America and Banco Santander Chile, one of the largest retail and commercial banks in Latin America, have selected Oberthur to be their... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 14:53

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) offers a new SIM platform that allows several different NFC applications to be executed securely and simultaneously on a single SIM card. The SkySIM CX SIM-card... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 12:44

MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP announced the coming launch of a white-label near-field communication (NFC) mobile wallet service in Japan that enterprises will use to offer their customers more rewarding experiences... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 12:35

Telefonica Czech Republic is set to launch a trial of mobile point-of-sale devices aimed at small firms and entrepreneurs who previously were unable to accept credit cards. The new device... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 12:00

Kalixa Group has been selected by Invapay, a procurement and electronic payment solution provider, as its global acquiring partner. Invapay will use Kalixa Accept’s acquiring and payment gateway services to... read more

20 Aug 13 @ 17:35

American payments start-up Stripe has officially launched in the UK and is now setting its sights on mainland Europe. Stripe provides merchants with an API that they can embed into... read more

20 Aug 13 @ 15:31

According to the a new report by Timetric, rising competition from domestic payment card networks is set to significantly alter the current operational model of international card networks.  The ability... read more

05 Aug 13 @ 11:27

Telcos France Telecom-Orange, SFR, along with Bouygues Telecom, and banks BNP Paribas and Crédit Mutuel-CIC plan to move their NFC projects from a few local deployments to the national stage... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 20:39

Ixaris has launched Ixaris Payments Server, a cloud-based platform that enables banks to quickly and cost-effectively develop their own corporate prepaid programmes.  Ixaris Payments Server is an out-of-the box package... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 20:38

Prepaid Financial Services (PFS), a global provider of prepaid solutions and a MasterCard prepaid partner, has announced the launch of its new “Pocket to Pocket” mobile app for the Apple... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 20:38

FIME Korea, a mobile device consulting and testing specialist, has achieved test bench qualification for EMVCo Contactless Card Level 1 in Korea, authorising the company to offer contactless card level... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 20:36

Vietnam’s Vietin Bank has chosen global payments solutions provider Yalamanchili to provide the payment processing software behind its recently launched prepaid card, which enables consumers and businesses in Vietnam to... read more

01 Aug 13 @ 18:07

UK payment solution specialist Savantor has announced its involvement in the successful launch of a new contactless payment method offered by Elisa, the Finnish mobile network operator. The new service... read more