20 May 14 @ 12:01

In a surprising move, Google Wallet users can now choose to pay with PayPal when shopping in the Google Play store. Google Wallet and PayPal have been competing with each... read more

20 May 14 @ 11:52

Tech companies have invested millions in trying to persuade people to make mobile payments, but the closure of a high-profile app launched by Twitter’s co-founder suggests too few are willing... read more

15 May 14 @ 15:38

HID Global and Proxama, the global platform provider of mobile proximity marketing, mobile wallet and payment solutions, announced that they have partnered to create a solution enabling rapid deployment of... read more

15 May 14 @ 13:32

US, telco-backed, mobile wallet venture Isis is picking up steam, claiming 20,000 new wallet activations a day over the last month since launch. The Isis wallet – owned by AT&T... read more

24 Apr 14 @ 11:01

Card Payments in Europe – Cards and payments at the POS and on the internet continued to drive significant growth in many European countries. The roll-out of contactless cards has started... read more

09 Apr 14 @ 11:33

According to a report from IHS, contactless payments could be about to receive a significant boost, with global Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled handset shipments set to soar four-fold in the... read more

11 Mar 14 @ 09:21

New fronts in the war on cash are being opened up worldwide through a range of innovative services and payments products. Is the dream of a cashless society far-fetched? While we... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 12:27

Working with its partners, Visa says it has doubled the availability of mobile payments services across Europe in the past 12 months.  Mobile payments are now available nationwide in several... read more

20 Feb 14 @ 08:50

Having recently launched in France, Orange has launched of Orange Cash in Spain, a rechargeable prepaid card from MasterCard that can be used within smartphones or as a traditional payment card. With Orange... read more

14 Feb 14 @ 10:45

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

29 Jan 14 @ 17:07

Canada has become a leader in the adoption of mobile payments by merchants and consumers. PCM looks at the factors driving the country’s m-payments success story and how a collaborative... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 16:29

El Corte Inglés has received Visa Europe’s certification to implement contactless payments in all its shopping centres. From now on, and for all contactless payments, cardholders won’t have to hand... read more

21 Nov 13 @ 09:35

Rogers Communications, Canada’s largest provider of wireless voice and data services, has chosen Sequent’s open Wallet Management Platform to power its suretap wallet, the first mobile wallet from a carrier... read more

11 Nov 13 @ 16:14

Rabobank, one of the largest financial institutions in the Netherlands, has teamed up with Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) in the launch of a commercial contactless mobile payment solution. The cooperation between... read more

08 Oct 13 @ 15:33

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released the U.S. Mobile Payments Landscape – Two Years Later, which examines changes in the evolution of mobile POS retail payments... 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

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

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

22 Jul 13 @ 02:18

Responding to increasing demand for mobile payments, Cryptomathic has upgraded its EMV flagship issuing solution, CardInk, to enable customers to issue payment applications to smartphones and other mobile devices. The... read more

22 Jul 13 @ 01:45

Société Générale, one of the largest European financial services groups, announced that they launched the bank’s first NFC Visa payment service in Strasbourg, France relying on Oberthur Technologies’ Trusted Service... read more