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

30 Jul 13 @ 01:28

British consumers will be the first in Europe to experience MasterPass by MasterCard. Major high street and online brands, including, Argos, Boots, House of Fraser and The Hut Group, join thousands of... read more

24 Jul 13 @ 01:39

The European Union’s executive body proposed a strict cap on credit and debit card fees on Wednesday, in a move it said could save consumers billions of euros. The proposal,... read more

24 Jul 13 @ 01:36

Wind and BNL BNP Paribas Group, in collaboration with SIA and MasterCard, have started an NFC technology (Near Field Communication), which allows users to make purchases in contactless mode via... read more

23 Jul 13 @ 01:43

Kalixa Group, DeviceFidelity and MasterCard announced the UK launch of the moneto prepaid wallet. The wallet enables near field communications (NFC) functionality on an iPhone, allowing users to tap and pay for goods at thousands of... read more

16 Jul 13 @ 02:31

Cellum, a developer of mobile payment applications, laid down the gauntlet, announcing that they have achieved a game changing 84% conversion rate- far higher than incumbent solutions.  The company now... read more

16 Jul 13 @ 02:27

BANAMEX became the first bank from the American continent to launch iAcepta Móvil Banamex, an application developed by Stratus Technologies Mexico called S-Pay mobile POS, which is compatible with handheld... read more

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

16 Jul 13 @ 02:23

Government efforts to promote cashless transactions have contributed to the steady growth of the cards and payments industry in Azerbaijan up to 2012. According to Timetric, continued support from the... read more

02 Jul 13 @ 02:45

As part of the world’s ‘first ever interoperable’ Arabic mobile money programme, MasterCard, the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and telecoms provider Etisalat have launched a mobile payment wallet in... read more