Global UnionPay Card Issuance Breaks Five Billion
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
The cumulative number of UnionPay cards issued globally has exceeded 5 billion and UnionPay has become Chinese residents' preferred payment brand, Ge Huayong, Chairman of China UnionPay, said at the opening ceremony of 2015 Shanghai City Campaign in Milano on June 10.
Judo Payments Will Support Apple Pay UK launch
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Judo Payments, Europe’s only mobile-first payments platform, today confirms its announcement as one of the payments platform providers selected to support Apple Pay when it launches in the UK in July.
Singapore's Largest Online Marketplace To Accept DBS Mobile Wallet
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
For the first time, the largest local online marketplace Qoo10.sg has signed on a mobile wallet as a payment option for its customers.
Creditcall Joins EMVCo
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Creditcall, the payment gateway provider and EMV Migration specialist, today announced it joined EMVCo, the global technical body overseeing EMV chip card standards, as both an EMVCo Business and Technical Associate.
MasterCard and Buy Way bring MasterPass to Belgium
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
From now on, Belgians can put the entire content of their wallet in MasterPass, a digital platform launched today by MasterCard and implemented by Buy Way.
Apriva Provides Chip And Pin Cards For mPOS with Miura
- 8 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Apriva, the leading provider of secure end-to-end wireless transaction and information solutions, and Miura Systems, the market leading UK-based mPOS platform provider, today announced their partnership and product integration.
Optimal Payments Partners With RentMoola
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Optimal Payments (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, has partnered with RentMoola, a Vancouver-based service that transforms conventional rent and condo fee payments of cash and cheques to virtual currency for tenants, property managers and owners. Through this exclusive partnership, RentMoola is able to offer fully automated, real-time payment and onboarding services for merchants and customers via Optimal... more
Connective Opens Office in Netherlands
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Connective, a leading provider of e-signatures, e-transactions and e-mandates solutions announces today that is has opened its Dutch office in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Vodafone Turkey Adds Eye Verification Tech To Mobile Wallet App
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Vodafone's Turkish arm is using technology from EyeVerify to enable customers to open its mobile wallet simply by looking at their handsets. Vodafone Cep Cüzdan mobile wallet users with iPhones can now register their 'eyeprint' by snapping a photo. From then on, to access the app they will be prompted to take a selfie. The feature uses EyeVerify's Eyeprint ID technology, which maps the unique veins in eyes and creates a digital key equal to a... more
Compass Plus survey reveals industry expectations for mobile technology are immobile
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has revealed the results of their recent research shows industry professionals believe mobile payments, NFC and contactless technology will reach mass adoption within five years despite previous results indicating they should already be mainstream.
Visa and FireEye Join Forces to Help Merchants
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ:FEYE) today announced their intention to co-develop tools and services to help merchants and issuers protect against advanced cyber attacks targeting payment data.
Visa Europe claims mobile payments will go mainstream within the next year
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Smart devices are on track to replace cash and cards as UK mobile payments are projected to hit over £1.2bn a week by 2020, according to research by Visa Europe.
£2.3bn wasted by UK companies on non-EU international payments in 2014
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
UK companies wasted more than £2.3bn on non-EU international payments in 2014, according to a report from FXcompared Intelligence, the independent research division of FXcompared. A lack of awareness of better bank rates or non-bank foreign exchange and international money transfer services is revealed to unnecessarily add billions of pounds to the cost of exporting and importing, with SMEs suffering disproportionally.
MasterCard Announced Its Partnership With Premier Bank
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
At the World Economic Forum on Africa today, MasterCard announced its partnership with Premier Bank, becoming the first international payments network to enter Somalia. As a result of the partnership, Premier Bank will now issue and accept the first MasterCard-branded payment cards in Somalia, a country which hasn't had any form of formal banking service since the collapse of the government and financial services system in 1991.
ING and Equens introduce efficient alternative to existing mandates : Launch of first digital direct debit mandate
- 8 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 June 2015 – Starting the 1st of June, customers of businesses and government agencies can pay for products and services using secure digital direct debit mandates (e-Mandates). ING is the first bank in the Netherlands to provide the e-Mandate service for its corporate customers. The e-Mandate service enables organisations to offer payment by direct debit through their websites. Equens, one of Europe’s largest payment... more
