Apple Pay now has a 0.25% share of payments on the top 10,000 websites, analytics firm SimilarTech reveals, ranking in fifth place behind PayPal with a 2.36% lead, followed by the PayPal Subscribe Button (0.98%), Stripe (0.35%) and Braintree (0.32%)... More
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Bank al Etihad takes bill payments to ATMs
Customers of Jordan-based Bank al Etihad can now pay bills and top up their airtime at the bank’s ATMs... More
Half of European cards contactless by 2021
Half of all European cards will be contactless by 2021 and the volume of contactless payments will rise more than six-fold between 2015 and 2021 to almost 25bn — equivalent to 22% of all payments on European cards — RBR reveals... More
PayPal launches Siri payment requests in 30 countries
PayPal has enabled money transfers via Apple’s Siri voice command function, enabling users with iOS10 devices to make payments by speaking requests... More
One million MTN Rwanda customers to get NFC mobile payments service
One million subscribers of mobile network operator MTN Rwanda’s MTN Mobile Money service will be able to make in-store payments at thousands of retail outlets within six months using their NFC mobile phones through MTN Tap&Pay, unveiled in collaboration with Verifone Mobile Money and NFC technology provider Youtap... More
US consumers’ use of in-store mobile payments set to soar
The value of mobile payment transactions made in the US is expected to rise 183.3% this year to US$27.67bn, more than doubling next year and reaching US$314.13bn by the year 2020, research released by eMarketer reveals... More
Smartphone maker offers mVisa QR code payments in India
Smartphone maker Micromax is to offer the mVisa QR code-based mobile payments service through its Udio mobile app across India, in collaboration with Visa and payments solution provider TranServ... More
Apple Pay adds 31 Australian banks after Cuscal deal
Thirty-one Australian banks and credit unions will support Apple Pay after a deal between Apple and banking services provider Cuscal... More
Apple Pay promotes web payments with holiday deals
Apple is promoting the use of Apple Pay for web payments with a string of holiday offers from US retailers including Adidas, Casper, Grubhub and Instacart... More
Nordic bank to use blockchain for money transfers
Nordic bank SEB has signed an agreement with distributed financial technology provider Ripple to use the company’s blockchain technology solution as a basis for payment transactions... More
PKO Bank Polski customers get Trusted Profiles to access government services using banking ID
Some 35,000 customers of Polish bank PKO Bank Polski have created Trusted Profiles which allow them to log in to government services, file an application for an ID card or driving licence, obtain a criminal record certificate and sign documents electronically using only their banking IDs... More
McDonald’s to launch mobile order and pay next year
McDonald’s is planning to launch a mobile order and pay service in up to 25,000 restaurants worldwide by the end of 2018, starting in the US next year, the fast food giant has told NFC World... More
Poppy Appeal gets contactless donations
UK consumers can make a donation to The Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal by tapping their contactless card or NFC device against contactless donation tins in 13 branches of UK bank Natwest... More
Samsung Pay gets Sberbank support in Russia
Customers of Russian bank Sberbank can now add their cards and make payments through Samsung Pay... More
Cartes Bancaires certifies OT’s dynamic code cards
French bank card association Cartes Bancaires has issued certification for a dynamic security code payment card developed by Oberthur Technologies... More
Mobile payments account for 25% of all US Starbucks transactions
Mobile payments now account for a quarter (25%) of all transactions processed in Starbucks stores across the US, with Mobile Order and Pay transactions representing 6% of the total, reaching 7% in September 2016... More
Walmart Pay to add more payment options
US supermarket giant Walmart is in talks with “several mobile wallet companies” to offer more payment options within its Walmart Pay QR code-based mobile payment service, the retailer tells Reuters... More
Tatra Banka launches HCE and tokenization mobile payments in Slovakia
Customers of Slovakian bank Tatra Banka can now make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments using their Android handsets... More
CIBC to be Samsung Pay’s Canada launch partner?
A screenshot taken by a Reddit user of the Samsung Pay app suggests Canadian bank CIBC will be the launch partner for the mobile payment service when it becomes available in the country some time this year... More
Apple says Australian banks are ‘not interested’ in promoting mobile payments competition
Apple is claiming the group of Australian banks pushing for the company to open up access to the NFC technology within its handsets is “not interested in promoting competition in mobile payments” within the country... More