Gateway+ Partners with TCH to Offer Real-time Payment Services in the U.S.
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
AccessGateway, the UK-based international real-time payments systems gateway solutions provider, has announced that they will work with The Clearing House (TCH) to link U.S. banks to a new national real-time payments system under development. The announcement comes several weeks' after TCH revealed that work had commenced on building the industrial-strength payments system, which once completed will be the most comprehensive real-time payments... more
Tuxedo Money Solutions Launches Escape Travel Money Prepaid MasterCard® Cards
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Tuxedo Money Solutions, a leading payment technology provider has launched a new instant-issue line of Escape Travel Money Prepaid MasterCard® Cards, allowing travel agents to sell currency cards, which are immediately activated for use the same day. Escape is a prepaid travel card programme, which integrates with travel agents’ internal sales software to offer customers a simple, safe and cost-effective way to manage overseas spending, and... more
Juniper Research Predicts Contactless Payments Growth by 148 million This Year
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumers making contactless payments via their mobile handsets will reach 148 million this year, with Apple and Samsung together accounting for nearly 70% of new customers.
Ethoca and Pegasystems Team Up to Fight Against Fraud
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments, Security, Fraud Detection
Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that help card issuers and online merchants increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, today announced a partnership with Pegasystems Inc., (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering the world’s leading enterprises with strategic business applications.
Computop Recognised for Processing Secure Payments in Europe
Payment service provider Computop will attend RBTE in London to discuss the security benefits of its recent Payment Card Industry Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) certification. An industry security developed by MasterCard and Visa to curb increasing theft and misuse of credit card data, the P2PE certification enables Computop’s Paygate solution to offer UK and EU omnichannel retailers a certified point of sale (POS) solution based on P2PE... more
Earthport Selected by FX4BIZ to Enhance Global Expansion
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Earthport (AIM: EPO.L), the leading payment network for cross-border transactions, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with FX4BIZ, a corporate FX provider with a fast growing European presence. The partnership will help with FX4BIZ’s global expansion and enhance its offering as an efficient, secure facilitator of cross-border payments for SMEs. Earthport's technology has become part of its unique market positioning as... more
JCB Cards to be Accepted by International Bank of Azerbaijan
JCB cards will be accepted at all of IBA's acceptance locations throughout the country by the end of February 2016.
China UnionPay and Visa Commit to the Philosophy of Openness
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments, Security, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
China UnionPay (CUP) and Visa Inc. today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Shanghai with both parties agreeing to collaborate on payments security, innovation and financial inclusion. The MOU was signed between Shi Wenchao, President of CUP, and Charlie Scharf, Chief Executive Officer of Visa Inc.
BlackBerry and Barclays Bank Team Up to Offer P2P Money Transfers
BlackBerry and Barclays Bank announce partnership to enable P2P money transfers via the UK bank's Pingit application over the BBM messaging service.
Japanese EMV Migration is Gaining Momentum with FIME
- 9 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure
FIME announces today that its Japanese laboratory is the first in the country to be accredited by JCB to perform functional testing on contactless payment terminal kernels, in line with its Book C-5 specification which relates to the JCB’spayment scheme. Global manufacturers of contactless payment terminals and mobile point of sale (mPOS) devices, in addition to kernel developers, can now validate the compliance of their products in FIME’s... more
Vodafone and TransferTo Join Forces to Enhance Mobile Money Growth Worldwide
- 9 years 4 weeks ago
- Payments
TransferTo, a leading global Mobile Money hub, has partnered under a framework agreement with Vodafone Group to enable real-time international money transfers to M-Pesa Mobile Money accounts worldwide. Powered by TransferTo’s cross-border Mobile Money network, the global partnership will make it faster and easier for consumers and organizations to send money to multiple M-Pesa accounts, in real time.
Bell ID Token Service Provider Integrated with Android Pay
- 9 years 4 weeks ago
- Payments
Bell ID, the mobile payments specialist recently acquired by Rambus Cryptography Research, today announces it will support international issuing banks, payment schemes and processors to integrate with Android Pay. Bell ID customers can utilize its Token Service Provider (TSP) software to enable and secure near field communication (NFC) payments functionality on Android phones.
Visa Europe to Launch Tokenisation Service
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Tokenisation replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments. Trumpeted by Visa as a key new tool in the fight against fraud, it arrived in Europe a year ago, having already been introduced in the States for the launch of Apple Pay.
Amadeus to Release Virtual Wallets for B2B Travel Agency Payments
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Payments
Amadeus to release digital wallet to target market for €332 billion of B2B travel agency payments.
Yorkshire Building Society Selects NoteMachine as their Cash Machine Provider
- 9 years 1 month ago
- ATMs
Yorkshire Building Society is the second largest building society in the UK. It has a national network of branches and agencies, assets of £38.5 billion, employs approximately 4,600 people and has 3.3 million customers. In addition to replacing their existing estate with brand new NCR ATMs, NoteMachine will be providing additional services such as automated deposits, mini-statements and voice guidance for visually impaired customers.
