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MasterCard bids to make everything a payment device
October 27th, 2015
MasterCard is looking beyond cards and mobile phones, launching a programme that will let partner firms turn anything from purses to keyfobs to jewellery in contactless payments devices. Designer to the stars Adam Selman, automaker General Motors, wearable technology ...
Swatch presented pay-by-wrist watch
October 15th, 2015
Swatch has joined forces with China UnionPay and Bank of Communications to introduce contactless payment “by-the-wrist” to China SWATCH BELLAMY: THE NEW PAY-BY-THE-WRIST SWATCH WATCH Pioneering Swiss watchmaker Swatch presented SWATCH BELLAMY, the new “pay-by-the-wrist” watch, at the landmark ...
Biometrics payment startup Zwipe raises $5m to accelerate global growth
October 14th, 2015
Biometrics pioneer zwipe raises $5m from high-tech innovation group kuang-chi to accelerate global growth Zwipe, which launched the world’s first fingerprint authenticated payment card on 17 October last year, today announced that it has raised $5 million in equity ...
Lloyds Banking Group launches Apple Pay to Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers
September 14th, 2015
From today, 14th September 2015, Lloyds Banking Group will offer its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers access to Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay. As Britain’s ...
MasterCard Delivers Android Pay to Cardholders in the U.S
September 14th, 2015
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) will power safe and secure payments with Android Pay Millions of MasterCard cardholders will soon have even more ways to make safe and convenient mobile payments. Today, Google announced that they are beginning to ...
New global retail study reveals consumer demand for new ways to pay
September 7th, 2015
MasterCard has issued a press release to report on its global retail study findings. The world’s first retail focussed social listening study by MasterCard, highlights consumers’ desire for retailers to adopt new payment technologies. Shoppers around the world are ...
Samsung Pay lines up card schemes and banks for launch
August 14th, 2015
Samsung will introduce its mobile payments service in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and several major banks onboard for a US launch in September. The handset manufacturer confirmed at an event to unveil the Galaxy S6 ...
Bnp Paribas: PAYING WITH A SELFIE
August 6th, 2015
MasterCard caused a stir a few weeks ago by announcing a September 2015 trial release of its new online payment method: the selfie. An initial group of 500 customers will test the system this autumn, in yet another show of creativity from the banking ...
Mobile payments trend is getting bigger: MasterCard to connect Europe to Samsung Pay
July 30th, 2015
Samsung has struck a deal with MasterCard to connect European card issuers to the handset manufacturer’s forthcoming mobile payments service. Under the agreement, European banks will be able to connect to the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service platform and activate ...
Africa Mobile Money Market Worth $14.27 Billion by 2020
July 15th, 2015
According to a new market research report, “Africa Mobile Money Market by Transaction mode (NFC/Smart Cards, Direct Mobile Billing, Mobile Web/WAP Payments, SMS, STK/USSD, and others), by Nature of Payment, by Location, by Type of Purchase, and by Country ...