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News/payments
While the use of digital payments continues to rise in the euro area, cash is still responsible for more than half of all point-of-sale transactions, according to a European Central Bank study.
06 January 2025
Norway's Vipps is claiming first place in the race to take on Apple Pay, enabling its users to tap their iPhones for instore payments.
10 December 2024
Visa has joined forces with Affirm to bring its 'flexible credential' technology to the US via a card that can toggle between debit and BNPL payment options.
13 November 2024
News/security
Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent has teamed up with Visa to take its palm recognition technology for digital payments international, beginning with Singapore.
11 November 2024
Tappy Technologies has launched a combined fitness and contactless payments ring.
29 October 2024
Revolut is rolling out a POS terminal device for larger businesses in the UK and Ireland in advance of Black Friday and the busy festive shopping season.
14 October 2024
BNPL giant Klarna is stepping up its assault on bricks-and-mortar shopping, landing on Adyen in-store terminals across Europe, North America and Australia.
26 September 2024
The number of contactless payments in Canada increased by 17% in 2023 to reach 63% of all in-store transactions.
19 September 2024
The Church of England has completed a three-year project to roll out contactless giving devices to more than 2200 churches, which have raised almost £4 million in donation so far.
12 September 2024
Shift4 Payments is to acquire Canadian gift card company Givex for C$200 million in an all-cash transaction.
28 August 2024
Apple is opening up the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make contactless payments to third-party providers in a host of countries - including the US and UK - but will charge associated fees.
14 August 2024
JP Morgan is teaming up with vendor PopID to trial pay-by-face biometric payments with merchants across the US.
07 August 2024
News/crypto
Australian stablecoin payment startup Stables has launched in Europe with a Mastercard virtual card.
23 July 2024
News/regulation
Apple has staved off massive European Commission fines by agreeing to open up the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make contactless payments to third-party providers.
11 July 2024
Germany's Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has unveiled a token-based system for secure offline payments.
04 July 2024
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has launched its mobile-first wallet and instant account-to-account payments system in Germany, with other counties set to follow in the coming months.
03 July 2024
A US district court judge has rejected an agreed $30 billion settlement over swipe fees between the two major card schemes and US merchants partially on the grounds that Visa and Mastercard have the financial armoury to pay "substantially" more.
01 July 2024
EU payment gateway Computop is calling on merchants to join pilot trials of the bank-backed European Payments Initiative's wero wallet scheme.
26 June 2024
Wearable paytech provider MuchBetter has launched a contactless payments ring in Italy that is free - as long as users load it with €100 through the associated app.
Mexican payments and commerce firm Clip has raised $100 million in a financing round joined by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and an unnamed fund manager.
19 June 2024
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