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Visa/MasterCard EU dominance adds impetus to calls for bank-backed competitor

02/12/2015(0)
MasterCard and Visa now account for 86% of all payment cards in Europe, as domestic and private label schemes continue their decline, according to data from RBR. RBR’s figures ... Read More
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Swatch partners with Visa for pay-by-the-wrist contactless payments

01/12/2015(0)
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 ... Read More
HMRC

HMRC collects £3.5bn from investigations into big businesses’ underpaid corporation tax

23/11/2015(0)
HMRC collected an extra £3.5bn in corporate tax from challenging businesses on their payments in the last tax year, according to figures from Pinsent Masons. The £3.5bn came from investigations ... Read More
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MasterCard cardholders can now use Vodafone Wallet to pay contactlessly

17/11/2015(0)
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 ... Read More
BNP Paribas

Well of History: A brief history of the means of payment

11/11/2015(0)
How to buy, sell and pay your debts? Almost as old as humanity itself, the means of payment has seen an acceleration in its history with the development of ... Read More
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1Pay expands payment coverage through partnership with Fortumo

29/09/2015(0)
The payment service provider 1Pay and the mobile payments company Fortumo are today announcing a partnership for direct carrier billing in South-East Asia. Merchants using 1Pay are now able to collect payments from ... Read More
mobile-wallet

Google and Samsung sign up for MasterCard express tokenisation programme

09/09/2015(0)
Google and Samsung are among the first mobile wallet providers to join up to MasterCard‘s newly launched Digital Enablement Express programme, which aims to speed up the process of ... Read More
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PayPal Announces Launch of PayPal.Me Peer-to-peer Payments Similar to Square Cash or Bitcoin Wallets

04/09/2015(0)
Receiving money from a friend, client or anyone else on PayPal just got a little bit easier. Today, the company announced the launch of PayPal.Me, a personal, vanity PayPal ... Read More
RBS

RBS suffers another IT meltdown as customer payments go astray

17/06/2015(0)
Royal Bank of Scotland is scrambling to fix an IT glitch that caused over 600,000 transactions and hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments to go missing overnight. The ... Read More
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