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Archive: News in brief
Apple Pay adds almost 60 more US banks
Apple has added 58 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Mike Tyson puts weight behind Bitcoin
Boxing hero Mike Tyson has teamed up with Bitcoin Direct and BitPay to launch the Mike Tyson Digital Wallet... More
Samsung Pay to add online payments
Samsung is to expand Samsung Pay to both online payments and down-range smartphones in the US this year, according to Reuters... More
One in ten UK card payments now contactless
Contactless card transactions now account for one in ten card payments made in the UK, research from The UK Cards Association shows... More
Gemalto recognised for mobile ticketing solutions
PARTNER NEWS: Three market research companies have named digital security giant Gemalto as the world’s number one supplier of contactless and mobile solutions for public transportation... More
More than 10m consumers sign up for PayPal One Touch
More than 10m consumers have now opted in to PayPal’s One Touch mobile payments solution... More
US shoppers back mobile gift cards
More than half of US online shoppers (56%) are interested in storing gift cards on their mobile phone, according to research from CashStar... More
Westpac launches money transfers via mobile
Customers of Australian bank Westpac can now transfer money to others using only their mobile phone number... More
One in three card transactions now EMV
One in three of all card-present transactions made globally between July 2014 and June 2015 used EMV chip technology, research from EMVCo shows... More
Target to launch its own mobile payment service?
US retail giant Target is in the early stages of developing its own mobile payment service... More
Facebook Messenger to launch in-app taxi booking and payments
Facebook Messenger users across the US will soon be able to order and pay for an Uber taxi from within the chat app... More
Atom Bank to add face and voice authentication to mobile app
Customers of Atom Bank will be able to access their mobile banking app using face and voice recognition when the online banking startup launches in 2016... More
Wirecard expands Boon to Spain and Ireland
Consumers in Spain and Ireland can now make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments using Wirecard’s Boon service... More
Bell ID highlights benefits of becoming a token service provider
A 12-page white paper that identifies the benefits of becoming a token service provider (TSP) is now available to download from the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre... More
NFC stickers enable in-store mobile payments in Zimbabwe
Customers of mobile network operator Econet Wireless in Zimbabwe can now make in-store purchases by tapping NFC stickers affixed to their mobile devices at the point of sale, with funds automatically deducted from their EcoCash mobile money account... More
Apple Pay adds 66 US banks
Apple has added another 66 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Samsung Pay adds 19 issuers
Samsung Pay has added 19 new issuers including support for eligible PNC Visa and KeyBank MasterCard credit and debit cards... More
Half of consumers expect to be making mobile and wearable payments by 2018
Half of consumers in mature markets including North America, Japan and parts of Western Europe expect to be using smartphones or wearables to make payments by 2018, research from Gartner shows... More