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Crédit Mutuel Arkéa to launch HCE in France
French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is to begin offering its customers a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments service... More
Dutch commuters to get Bluetooth offers
Dutch public transport operator Syntus is to send out offers and promotions to commuters using a national network of 3,000 Bluetooth beacons that work in conjunction with a mobile ticketing app provided by Corethree... More
Blik signs up 1.3m Poles for mobile payments
Some 1.3m Polish consumers are now using Blik, the mobile payments service backed by six of the country’s banks that lets customers make in-store and online payments, withdraw cash from ATMs and send P2P transfers with their mobile phones... More
Visa to acquire Visa Europe
Visa has confirmed it is to acquire Visa Europe for an upfront consideration of €16.5bn with a potential additional earn-out of up to €4.7bn... More
US consumers vote for banks to keep payments safe
An “overwhelming majority” of US consumers (75%) say they most trust banks to keep their payments safe, an American Bankers Association survey has found... More
Alipay to offer QR payments in Taiwan
Alipay is to work with E... More
MCX expands CurrentC pilot
US retailer-led mobile wallet consortium MCX, which announced a deal earlier this week to support JP Morgan Chase’s new Chase Pay service, is expanding its Columbus, Ohio pilot to include 200 stores operated by “12 large retailers”... More
One million Koreans sign up for Samsung Pay
The number of Koreans using Samsung Pay has doubled in the last month to one million and 100,000 payments are now being made using the service every day, Business Korea reports... More
Poynt raises $28m for smart POS terminal
Poynt, the POS maker founded by former Google Wallet lead Osama Bedier, has raised US$28m in a Series B funding round and announced that it has gained PCI PTS, PCI DSS and EMV certification for its device... More
Ugo reports 100,000 NFC wallet users
Canadian open NFC mobile wallet provider Ugo Wallet has signed up more than 100,000 users since its launch in November 2014, up from 50,000 in August 2015... More
Payworks to enable chip and PIN for Stripe in UK
POS payment platform provider Payworks is to enable Stripe users to accept payments via chip and PIN card readers in the UK... More
MobiPay launches in the Ukraine
Customers in the Ukraine can now use their mobile phones to make in-store and online purchases and P2P transfers using the MobiPay mobile wallet... More
SumUp expands to US
European mPos provider SumUp has launched in the US and has started taking pre-orders for a new EMV contactless card terminal for US$99... More
Verizon goes live with Samsung Pay
Samsung Pay is now available to Verizon Wireless customers with a Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ or Note 5... More
Mobile to account for 20% of US POS payments by 2020
US consumers will use their smartphones to make mobile payments at the point of sale five times a week by 2018 and, by 2020, 20% of POS transaction volume will be conducted via mobile devices, research from Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group reveals... More
Apple Pay now offered by more than 600 US banks
Apple has added more than 70 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US, taking the total number to more than 600... More
Microsoft to launch mobile payments?
Microsoft is looking to relaunch Windows Wallet, a mobile payments app that stores credit cards and coupons for in-store and online payments through Windows devices, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore has told The Verge... More
Dubai commuters to replace travel cards with watches
Commuters in Dubai may soon be able to pay for travel using contactless watches from Watch2Pay... More
Irish make over 2m contactless payments every month
People in Ireland are now making over two million contactless transactions with Visa debit cards every month, Visa Europe has revealed, representing a rate of one contactless payment per second... More