Apple Pay will be expanding to Visa and MasterCard in Canada by May 10, “barring any unforeseen circumstances,” iPhone in Canada reports... More
Archive: News in brief
SumUp and Payleven merge
UK mobile payment companies SumUp and Payleven have announced that they are to merge and operate as one company under the SumUp name... More
Payback to add NFC payments to mobile app
German loyalty program Payback is to launch a new app in May that will include loyalty points, coupons and NFC mobile payments... More
Deutsche Bank to launch NFC payments in Q3
Customers of Deutsche Bank will be able to make NFC mobile payments using the version of its mobile banking app that will become available for Android in the third quarter of this year... More
Gemalto named as leading mobile ticketing vendor
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto has been awarded the “leading position among mobile ticketing vendors” by Juniper Research for the second consecutive year... More
MasterCard to reduce EMV checkout time
MasterCard has unveiled M/Chip Fast, a technology advancement designed to help speed up EMV transactions at the checkout... More
Samsung Pay goes live at Woori Bank ATMs
Samsung Pay has enabled ATM withdrawals for customers of Woori Bank in South Korea, the company confirmed at the Samsung Developer Conference 2016... More
Tangerine adds biometrics to mobile banking app
Customers of Canada’s Tangerine Bank can now log into its mobile banking app for iOS by authenticating themselves with their iris or voice... More
Samsung Pay to launch in Australia “very soon”
American Express is gearing up to support the launch of Samsung Pay in Australia “very soon”, American Express Australia’s director of digital commerce Rob Bourne has revealed... More
More than half of payment cards shipped in 2015 were contactless
Contactless technology was built into 56% of all smart cards shipped globally excluding the Americas in 2015, up from 42% in 2014, the Smart Payment Association reports... More
Apple Pay gets 1m new users every week
Apple Pay is now signing up 1m new users per week, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed during the company’s second quarter earnings call... More
IoT security spending to reach $348m this year
Worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach US$348m in 2016, a 23.7% increase from 2015 spending of $281.5m, Gartner predicts... More
European spend on payments technology to rise
Nearly three quarters of European retailers and financial institutions (71%) plan to increase their spending on payments technology in the next 18 to 24 months due to increasing competition and a feeling of being “under siege”, research from ACI Worldwide and Ovum shows... More
Emirates Islamic takes banking to Twitter
Customers of Emirates Islamic Bank can now request account information through social media site Twitter... More
Vodafone Wallet wins PX Award
PARTNER NEWS: Transaction technology provider Carta Worldwide, PayPal and Vodafone have won the ‘International Program of the Year’ award for Vodafone Wallet at the PX Payments Awards in Canada... More
Visa amends financial details of Visa Europe acquisition
Visa has reached a preliminary agreement to amend the transaction details of its Visa Europe acquisition in response to feedback from the European Commission... More
42% of UK mobile users don’t trust NFC mobile payments
More than four in ten mobile users in the UK (42%) feel that NFC mobile payments are not secure, research from Ofcom reveals... More
Xiaomi to launch Xiaomi Pay in China
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is to launch an NFC based Xiaomi Pay mobile payment service in partnership with China UnionPay... More
Walmart Pay goes live for iPhone users
US retail giant Walmart has begun rolling out its Walmart Pay QR code-based mobile payment service for iOS devices... More
Joey Restaurants launches mobile payments
Customers at Joey Restaurants across the US and Canada can now pay with their iPhones using a new Joey Pay mobile app... More