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Visa’s contactless payments soar by 250pc in the UK, as firm reports record revenues in Europe
January 26th, 2016
Cash is no longer king in the UK, where Visa Europe‘s contactless payments soared by 250 per cent last year. The electronic payments business said that people purchasing items by waving their Visa credit or debit cards over payment terminals ...
Contactless payments set to soar across Europe
December 10th, 2015
Spectacular growth in the volume and value of contactless payments across the European Union during 2014 has set the scene for a mass-market breakthrough over the coming years as resolutions by Visa and MasterCard accelerate the roll out of ...
Swatch partners with Visa for pay-by-the-wrist contactless payments
December 1st, 2015
Swatch SA and Visa Inc. together with Visa Europe have signed an agreement giving eligible Visa cardholders in the U.S., Switzerland and Brazil the ability to tap and pay with Swatch’s new «pay-by-the-wrist» watch, Swatch Bellamy. Slated to launch ...
MasterCard cardholders can now use Vodafone Wallet to pay contactlessly
November 17th, 2015
Vodafone Wallet users will be able to pay for goods and services contactlessly using their MasterCard cards, with the service scheduled to launch to consumers in European markets within weeks. Contactless card payments using Vodafone Wallet require a Vodafone ...
Four in ten say they won’t need cash in ten years time as contactless proves popular for many
August 31st, 2015
43% of people look to contactless payments as the payment method of the future. Within the next five years, one in three (34%) expect to be using a mobile device on a day-to-day basis to make payments. By 2025, ...
Mastercard and Visa lose legal round in Europe over swipe fees
June 18th, 2020
Wednesday, the highest court in the U.K. upheld a 2018 ruling by a lower court, the Court of Appeal, that payments firms Visa and Mastercard had restricted competition for retailers by levying fees on transactions, known as multilateral interchange ...
2.6 billion to use biometrics for payments by 2023; Report
October 23rd, 2018
Goode Intelligence forecasts 2.6 billion to use biometrics for payments by 2023. By 2023, nearly 579 million biometric payment cards will be used globally to enable frictionless customer authentication for higher-value contactless transactions, according to new research from Goode ...
Apple Pay and other mobile payments will count for 1 in 3 in-store transactions by 2020
August 3rd, 2018
The future of shopping transactions may look a lot like Apple Pay. In-store contactless payments are predicted to reach $2 trillion by 2020, making up one-third of total transactions, according to a Monday Juniper Research report. Contactless payments will ...
Why Americans are warming to mobile payments
June 29th, 2018
Americans have long been laggards when it comes to paying for goods and services with a smartphone. Plenty still prefer to sign credit-card slips or even cheques. But there are signs that they are warming to more modern methods. ...
Massive VISA outage shows the fragility of global payments
June 6th, 2018
On Friday, VISA’s payment network suffered outages across Europe, limiting transactions for both businesses and individuals. Banks and commerce groups began advising customers to use cash or other payment cards if possible, and reports indicated that online and contactless ...
