Juniper Predicts Mobile & Wearable Contactless Payments to Reach $95billion by 2018
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global value of mobile and wearable contactless payments is expected to reach $95 billion annually by 2018, up from less than $35 billion last year.
FIME Starts EMVCo Mobile Payments Performance Testing
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
FIME’s Greenlight test tool has been qualified by technical body EMVCo to deliver Level 1 mobile performance testing. The fully automated tool measures the payment transaction time between a smartphone and acceptance terminal. The tool is available to purchase for in-house testing and is used by FIME’s laboratories.
Compass Plus' Payment Platform Celebrates 5th Anniversary
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to payment processors and financial institutions, has announced the fifth birthday of TranzAxis, the Open Development Payment Platform. Since its launch into production, TranzAxis has been implemented in a number of countries across the globe, including Antigua, Sweden, Russia and Jordan, and has risen to fulfil the technology requirements of companies... more
Small and Medium-sized Businesses are for Bitcoin. What are the Benefits?
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Blockchain, Payments
Bitcoin is still an attractive sphere for investment, despite the fact that financiers and developers switched their attention to the blockchain. In the last year alone, venture capital investments in cryptocurrency start-ups reached a record level.
Adyen Launches 'RevenueAccelerate' a Data-driven Suite at Money 20/20
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Today at Money 20/20 in Copenhagen, Adyen, the payments technology company, launched RevenueAccelerate, a data-driven suite of automated tools that is designed to significantly increase credit card approval rates globally. This is another step forward for Adyen in outperforming legacy payments systems, and unlocking new growth opportunities for its merchants.
GoldMoney Unveils BitGold Business Accounts and Merchant Processing at Money 20/20 Europe
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
GoldMoney launches BitGold Business Accounts and merchant processing at Money 20/20 Europe, the world's largest FinTech event. BitGold, the only gold-based payments and savings platform, is transforming the global cross-border payment experience by enabling business owners, freelancers, and sole proprietors to request and accept business and consumer payments in vaulted-gold bullion, enabling instant cross-border value settlement and reducing... more
Pivotal Payments Upgrades Processing Environment with Lusis Payments’ TANGO
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Pivotal Payments, a provider of technology-driven global payment processing solutions, has licensed Lusis Payments’ TANGO platform to process point-of-sale (POS) payments. Pivotal Payments has been providing innovative merchant services for over a decade, and delivers efficiency and profitability to over 90,000 clients across a wide range of business verticals.
Gemalto and Worldline Team Up to Offer Enhanced Mobile Payments for Card Holders
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Worldline [ and Gemalto are working together to enable seamless onboarding of banks and card issuers to mobile payment wallets provided by device manufacturers.
Unwire Connect Mobile Payment Solution Works Across all Devices
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Unwire Connect is a revolutionary product that connects the consumer with the merchant at point of sale by using a tap-and-pay system. Unwire Connect is unique as it is the first offering of its kind and the only one that is white label and available on all platforms.
Ixaris Enhances its Payment Offering
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Ixaris is separating its payments technology arm, Ixaris Technologies, to create a fully dedicated tech subsidiary to support its open payments platform offering. Following this move, Ixaris Technologies will operate as a separate company, delivering distinct services to its B2B customers, while its sister company EntroPay will continue to focus on its profitable self-service consumer and small-business virtual card business.
Pay4Later Breakes a Record in Consumer Finance Applications
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Financial technology company, Pay4Later, has reached a significant milestone this month by processing its millionth consumer finance application. Exponential growth in point-of-sale loans reflects the increase in merchants providing a financing option at checkout and demand from consumers for fast, accessible credit.
TNS Launches Message Translation Solution to Enhance Payments Industry
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Merchants, ISOs, payment gateways and terminal providers around the world are set to gain efficiencies and make substantial savings thanks to the launch of TNSConnect2All, a new global message translation conversion service, from Transaction Network Services (TNS).
Money 20/20: Azimo to Run Money Transfers in Scandinavia
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Today at the inaugural European Money 20/20 in Copenhagen, Azimo, the digital money transfer company, announced the launch of its service in Denmark and Sweden, increasing the countries it serves to 22. Through a strategic partnership with European online payments service provider Trustly, hard-working migrants can now send Danish Krone (DKK) and Swedish Krona (SEK) from their mobile or desktops to family and friends in over 190 countries... more
PayU Operates its Business Under New CEO
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
PayU, the leading payment service provider within fast-growing countries, analyses the transaction trends and potential of the 16 growth markets in which it physically operates in order to further shape the company’s business strategy under new CEO, Laurent Le Moal. ‘’Ecommerce growth within emerging countries is two times bigger than in most established regions’’, states Laurent Le Moal, CEO of PayU. ‘’These evolving markets make way for many... more
21 Banks Testing SWIFT's Global Payments Innovation Initiative
SWIFT announces today that 21 banks have started the pilot for its global payments innovation initiative, intended to improve the customer experience in correspondent banking by increasing the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.
