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UniCredit is to issue contactless stickers in Russia, turning consumer mobile handsets into cardless payment devices.
20 November 2013
Index, a retail software company set up by former Google Wallet executives, has secured $7 million in a Series A round led by Innovation Endeavors, Khosla Ventures, AIMCo and 819 Capital.
19 November 2013
Uber, the US start-up behind an app that connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire, has added PayPal as a payment option.
US authorities have arrested five men for their part in a massive ATM cyberheist that siphoned off $45 million in a matter of hours.
Visa has poached Rajat Taneja from video games outfit Electronic Arts as its new executive vice president of technology.
India's first public sector bank for women opens its doors today, powered by technology from US fintech vendor FIS.
San Francisco-based start-up Coin is bidding to slim wallets with a new payment card-sized device which can store all the details of users' credit, debit, gift and membership cards within its memory and be used in their place.
15 November 2013
Irish banks AIB and Permanent TSB say that they suspect that some of their customers have fallen victim to card fraud after a massive data breach at loyalty points outfit Loyaltybuild.
Israeli vendor On Track Innovations (OTI) says a consortium of banks in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao has signed for its Wave device, which plugs into the audio-jacks of smartphones, enabling them to make NFC payments.
13 November 2013
Finextra and Level39, in association with Innotribe, are to host a two-day conference exploring the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.
12 November 2013
Opus Global, the new $500 million fintech investment fund set up by former VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron and private equity house GTCR, has poached Goldman Sachs veteran Julio Quinteros.
11 November 2013
Barclays is set to open branches within Asda stores, shutting down existing sites and shifting staff to the supermarket.
08 November 2013
US payment processor EVO Payments is to acquire a 66% stake in PKO Bank Polski's merchant acquiring business, eServices, for a minimum $113.5 million.
07 November 2013
Investment activity in fintech companies for financially underserved consumers in the United States totaled more than $5.2 billion between July 2012 and June 2013, according to a report by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) and Core Innovation Capital.
Mobile point-of-sale outfit Square has reputedly held discussions with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley about a 2014 IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal.
PC Financial and TD Bank are to join their Canadian compatriots with the launch of a mobile wallet combining payment and loyalty programmes, dubbed Ugo, in 2014.
Fico has developed fraud protection technology which checks a person's location, via their mobile phone, against the location of the ATM or point-of-sale terminal where their card is being used.
05 November 2013
UK mobile commerce outfit Zapp is targeting 20 million users by 2017, promising to rival traditional payments giants such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the decade.
04 November 2013
Merseyrail will this week become the first UK rail operator to roll out contactless payments across its network, although travellers will still need a paper ticket.
A technical snafu at Barclays shut down the bank's Internet, ATM, and card payments network for more than two hours on Thursday night, fuelling a wave of customer anger on Twitter.
01 November 2013
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