Financial services provider Orix is to promote Ant Financial’s Alipay mobile payment platform in Japan and encourage more stores to accept the service... More
Archive: News in brief
Apple Pay adds 32 banks in the US
Apple has added a further 32 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US, 9to5mac reports... More
Nationwide explores behavioural biometrics
Customers of Nationwide Building Society in the UK may soon be able to access their mobile banking accounts using behavioural biometrics that recognise how they interact with their smartphone, from the way they hold their device to how they type... More
61% of US Apple Watch owners use Apple Pay
Nearly two thirds of Americans with an Apple Watch (61%) use the device to make payments with Apple Pay, research from Fluent reveals... More
Tourists in Japan to get fingerprint payments by 2020
The Government of Japan is to pilot a system that would let tourists verify their identity and make in-store payments using their fingerprint... More
Mobile wallet transactions to increase 61% by 2021
The number of mobile wallet transactions across Europe will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 61.8% from 2016 to 2021, Smart Insights predicts... More
Adobe prototype store uses RFID shopping bags
Shoppers at Adobe’s prototype “store of the future” in Las Vegas are being given RFID chip-enabled shopping bags that allow them to purchase items simply by putting the bags on a checkout counter... More
Ingenico buys Think&Go
POS terminal maker Ingenico has acquired NFC specialist Think&Go... More
38% of payments in Europe will be digital by 2020
More than a third (38%) of all payments made across Europe will be digital by 2020, MasterCard predicts... More
One in three UK consumers don’t trust contactless payments
Nearly one third (31%) of UK consumer never pay by contactless because “they don’t trust it”, research from Future Thinking reveals... More
Australian banks gearing up to support Apple Pay?
Australia’s ANZ Bank, Suncorp Bank and Bank Australia may soon begin supporting Apple Pay, with iPhone In Canada reporting that a reader successfully registered an ANZ Visa card for use on the mobile payment service... More
NFC payments to reach $95bn by 2018
The global value of NFC mobile and wearable payments is expected to reach US$95bn annually by 2018, up from less than $35bn last year, according to Juniper Research... More
Priorbank launches HCE payments in Belarus
Customers of Priorbank in Belarus can now make mobile payments using a new HCE service that supports MasterCard and will be extended to include Visa cards later this year... More
Samsung Pay looks to “next generation” biometric security
Samsung is developing new biometric sensors for mobile phones with the aim of adding additional security to Samsung Pay... More
Amazon expands its payments business
Amazon has launched the Amazon Payments Partner Program, a new service designed to enable ecommerce platform providers and developers to offer merchants Amazon Payments, which allows customers to log in and pay using their account with the online retail giant... More
Tesco rolls out PayQwiq mobile payments to 524 stores
UK supermarket giant Tesco’s PayQwiq mobile payments service, which lets customers pay using an Android or Apple phone by snapping an image of a QR code located at each checkout, is now live in 524 of the retailer’s stores in London and Edinburgh... More
MasterCard reports on tokenization in Europe
MasterCard is working on more than 60 projects involving its MDES tokenization platform in Europe, the payments network has revealed... More
MasterCard reports on ‘selfie pay’ popularity
MasterCard’s Identity Check service, which lets consumers authenticate payments by taking a picture of themselves using their smartphone, has “gone like wildfire in the trials that we’ve done in the Netherlands and the US”, Ann Cairns, the payments network’s president for international markets, has revealed during a keynote at Money20/20 Europe in Copenhagen... More
Google confirms Wallet Card termination
Google has confirmed that it is to terminate its Wallet Card on June 30... More
Federal Reserve reports on US mobile payment adoption
Nearly a quarter of US adults with a mobile phone (24%) and 28% of those with a smartphone made a mobile payment in the 12 months prior to November 2015, a survey by the Federal Reserve reveals... More