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The Girl Scouts of America have a new weapon in their cookie-selling armoury this year thanks to technology from Sage which enables them to accept card payments through mobile phones.
06 March 2012
Barclaycard US has unveiled a crowdsourced 'social credit card' that will have its features shaped by an online community of users.
Banco Santander and Orange are trialling a contactless mobile payments service that works with both Visa and MasterCard accounts.
05 March 2012
UK-based payment technology vendor CreditCall has completed a management buy-out with the backing of FF&P Private Equity and Bestport Ventures. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Bank Machine and Ukash have struck a deal that will enable Brits to withdraw cash at ATMs without their cards.
02 March 2012
A group of American retailers, including Wal-Mart and Target, is developing its own mobile payments system, joining an already crowded field of banks, card companies, technology vendors and telcos, according to the Wall Street Journal.
American Express has launched a Facebook app for its Serve digital wallet platform, enabling customers to send, receive and request money from directly within the social network.
01 March 2012
US retailer Home depot is to roll out Paypal's in-store payment system nationwide following a six-week trial at five pilot stores.
29 February 2012
Telco Orange has signed a deal that enables it to incorporate Visa pre-paid accounts within its mobile money service for customers in Africa and the Middle East.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has suffered a major crash of its eftpos and ATM systems, marking a continuation of the IT problems that have blighted the country's top banks over the past eighteen months.
Blaming a "difficult market environment", Swiss financial services company SIX Group says it will axe 150 jobs as part of a SFr30 million cost-cutting programme.
28 February 2012
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into card payment terminals, is preparing to move into the UK market, hiring former Barclaycard innovation chief Stewart Roberts to lead its operations in the country.
27 February 2012
Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, has snagged deals with Chase, Capital One and Barclaycard to load their credit, debit and pre-paid cards onto the telco-controlled mobile wallet.
Mobile network operator Vodafone has formed a global partnership with Visa to bring contactless mobile payments to customers in more than 30 countries around the world.
Registration has opened for EBAday 2012, the pre-eminent annual event for the European payments industry, which will run for two full days from 15-16 May at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland.
24 February 2012
Boku has unveiled a platform that lets customers make online and contactless in-store point-of-sale payments through their mobile network operator.
23 February 2012
MasterCard has launched a mobile money partnership programme designed to bring financial services to underbanked people in developing markets.
Banks that let customers pick their own PINs and fail to 'blacklist' the most common variations are putting them at risk, according to a paper from Cambridge University researchers.
Visa and Monitise have turned their attentions to the Indian market, signing a deal with the country's second largest private bank, HDFC, to introduce mobile money services nationwide.
22 February 2012
The UK Payments Council has commissioned VocaLink to build a central database that will allow bank customers to link their mobile phone number to their account for person-to-person mobile payments.
21 February 2012
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