Payments News & Media
Visa promises cashless (but not ATM-less) experience at FIFA event
June 14, 2017
Visa will deploy 1,600 point-of-sale terminals and 120 mobile concessionaires throughout the stadium concourses for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 to be held…
read nowConsumers expect ease of use, security from bank's mobile app
June 13, 2017
Retail bank and credit card customers now prefer mobile to all other channels, but rate ease of use as a differentiator among top-performing mobile apps.
read nowBanks make major P2P push as FIs start adding Zelle
June 12, 2017
Financial Institutions behind the Zelle person-to-person payments network from Early Warning Services will begin in earnest to add the feature to their mobile…
read nowStudy: Consumers find payments more mobile, and personal
June 8, 2017
Consumers are paying more bills from mobile devices and making more person-to-person payments while starting to venture into digital wallets, according to a…
read nowContactless retail payments to top $1T worldwide by 2019
May 23, 2017
New data from fintech analysts at Juniper Research forecasts that the global value of contactless transactions made via payment cards, mobile devices and…
read nowStandardized mobile QR codes streamline Thailand's quest to go cashless
May 12, 2017
MasterCard, UnionPay International and Visa have introduced a standardized quick response code for payments in Thailand, accelerating the country's transition…
read nowFirst Data, Alipay strike mobile payments deal
May 9, 2017
Hot on the heels of last week's announcement by ACI Worldwide, First Data has announced that it, too, is expanding its relationship with Alipay. According to a…
read nowVocaLink Pay By Bank adds another FI
April 25, 2017
Pay by Bank, a service powered by VocaLink and supported by U.K. banks and acquirers, has announced a partnership with Starling Bank that will launch the…
read nowPayToo gets into the selfie game
April 25, 2017
PayToo Merchant Services Corp., a division of PayToo, has unveiled its new payment technology, PayToo SmileandPay. The service uses facial recognition and…
read nowWhy mess with cash? Masterpass those snack crackers!
April 20, 2017
MasterCard has vowed to end the plight of shivering, swimsuit-clad hotel guests who pass a vending machine on their way in from the pool only to find…
read nowPartnership to let Wells Fargo customers make mobile payments via PayPal
April 20, 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. has announced that its retail customers soon will be able to use PayPal to make purchases with their NFC-enabled Android device at…
read nowMajor 'Pays' expected to attract 500M users by 2021
April 14, 2017
New data from fintech analysts at Juniper Research projects that the number of OEM-Pay contactless users — including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay …
read nowFSS supports India's cashless payment initiative with card-free solution
April 10, 2017
FSS, a Chennai, India-based provider of ATM and payments services, has launched FSS Aadhaar Pay to support the digital payment initiatives of the Indian…
read nowCIBC rated best in Canada for mobile banking
April 4, 2017
Surviscor, a firm that provides analysis and ranking for Canadian digital customer experiences provided by service firms, has released its 2017 Canadian mobile…
read nowCourt puts kibosh on Australian banks' boycott of Apple Pay
April 4, 2017
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a determination denying authorization to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking…
read nowHSBC joins major UK FIs in adopting VocaLink Pay by Bank app
March 30, 2017
U.K. payment systems provider VocaLink has announced that Pay by Bank app, the company's mobile payments service, will soon be available to customers of HSBC…
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For mobile payments adoption, it's the same old story
by Will Hernandez — Editor, NetWorld Media Group
Mobile transactions have a long way to go before they overtake cash use in the US. A recent field test by the payments strategies group of the Boston Fed…
read nowPaytm launches mobile bill-payment service in Canada
March 17, 2017
New Delhi-based Paytm, has launched its bill-payment service in Canada, making it the first Indian company to debut such a service in the Great White North.
read nowIndustry bodies align to standardize on-device NFC service management
March 15, 2017
ETSI, GlobalPlatform and the NFC Forum have detailed a standardized approach to implementing and managing NFC services across all technologies and platforms…
read nowChase agrees to purchase MCX technology
March 13, 2017
JPMorgan Chase intends to acquire MCX payments technology to help expand Chase Pay, the FI's mobile and digital wallet, according to a press release.
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