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News/Eftpos
Japanese telco NTT Docomo has teamed up with Sony and NXP Semiconductors to trial technology that lets shoppers make NFC payments without having to take their phones out of their pockets.
08 January 2020
Intesa Sanpaolo is to sell its merchant acquiring business at 380,000 points of sale across Italy to local payments processor Nexi for €1000.
19 December 2019
With the tagline ‘Hungry? Face it’, Nets has launched a pilot programme testing facial recognition at a cafeteria in Denamrk.
09 December 2019
FinAccel, a Singapore-headquartered financial technology company that enables Indonesian consumers to buy online and pay later under the brand Kredivo, has raised $90 million in a Series C equity funding round.
03 December 2019
Swedish mPOS vendor iZettle has launched a recycled card reader made from fishing ropes and nets collected from the North and Baltic seas.
20 November 2019
A Nestle grocery store in Spain has implemented a face payment system developed by CaixaBank and the bank's Payment Innovation Hub alliance, comprising partner institutions Global Payments, Visa, Samsung and Arval.
15 November 2019
News/payments
Visa has made a strategic investment in Lisnr, an ultrasonic data transmission specialist offering an alternative to NFC and QR code-based mobile payments. The size of the investment has not been disclosed.
05 November 2019
Ant Financial and TenCent have launched versions of their mobile payments apps for foreign visitors to China, making it easier for travellers to make purchases in the increasingly cash-averse country.
US supermarket giant Kroger is accepting Visa credit cards at all of its stores again, ending a ban begun more than a year ago in protest at "excessive" interchange fees.
30 October 2019
American users of Samsung Pay can now send money overseas and sign up for a virtual Mastercard debit card.
04 October 2019
Mizuho Bank's J-Coin digital currency platform is coming to more than 18,000 retail locations thanks to an agreement between the Japanese lender and payments technology firm InComm.
30 September 2019
The UK's Competition watchdog has slapped a £250,000 fine on PayPal for a breach of rules following its $2.2 billion acquisition of Swedish mPOS vendor iZettle.
24 September 2019
Japanese caffeine hounds can now pay for their salted caramel mocha frappuccinos with a Starbucks-branded NFC-enabled pen.
20 September 2019
Romans can now pay for their railway and subway journeys with their contactless cards and NFC-enabled mobile phones, thanks to technology from SIA.
19 September 2019
US Bank has acquired talech, a supplier of point-of-sale software to small and medium-sized businesses.
10 September 2019
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has added a manned till and two self-checkout kiosks to its first mobile scan-and-go outlet after a three-month pilot trial failed to win over the general public.
09 September 2019
Three of Australia's biggest banks have contributed to a $4 million investment round in smart receipt start-up, Slyp.
Samsung, Visa and Fiserv unit First Data have teamed up to make the mPOS dongle a thing of the past, replacing it with a software-based system that lets merchants accept contactless payments of any amount on their handsets without the need for any additional hardware.
ING has teamed up with Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn and US tech startup AiFi to pilot a cashierless store where customers tap their bank card as they enter, pick up their groceries, and walk out.
06 September 2019
Amazon is testing biometric technology that will let Whole Foods shoppers pay for their groceries by waving their hands, according to the New York Post.
05 September 2019
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