Search Results for: Mobile Payments
Four in ten say they won’t need cash in ten years time as contactless proves popular for many
August 31st, 2015
43% of people look to contactless payments as the payment method of the future. Within the next five years, one in three (34%) expect to be using a mobile device on a day-to-day basis to make payments. By 2025, ...
Samsung Pay lines up card schemes and banks for launch
August 14th, 2015
Samsung will introduce its mobile payments service in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and several major banks onboard for a US launch in September. The handset manufacturer confirmed at an event to unveil the Galaxy S6 ...
China Curbs Online Payment in Fresh Blow to Internet Finance
August 3rd, 2015
China plans to tighten regulations governing the nation’s 270 online-payment firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance arm, dealing another blow to the booming business of Internet finance. Under draft rules published on July 31, the central bank will limit the ...
Square reportedly files for IPO
July 27th, 2015
Mobile payments startup Square has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg sources. People with “knowledge of the matter” have told newswire Bloomberg that Jack Dorsey’s firm has taken advantage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which ...
Singapore pledges S$225m to fintech
July 2nd, 2015
Singapore has committed S$225 million over the next five years to a scheme designed to build a vibrant ecosystem for innovation in fintech. Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director Ravi Menon revealed the investment (around US$167 million) in ...
Swissquote first Swiss bank to launch Apple Watch app
June 26th, 2015
Swissquote Bank, Switzerland’s leading online bank, today announced the launch of the first mobile banking and trading application developed by a Swiss bank for the much anticipated Apple Watch, ahead of its official Swiss release date, the 26th of ...
SafeCharge: Strategic partnership and investment
June 3rd, 2015
SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the global provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, announces that it has agreed to enter into a strategic partnership with German based FinTech Group AG (“FinTech”) which is ...
Coinzone Opens for Business in Czech Republic
April 22nd, 2015
Fully localised Bitcoin payment gateway solution for the Czech market makes it easy for merchants and individuals to participate in the country’s flourishing Bitcoin ecosystem Coinzone, a leading Bitcoin payment solution provider dedicated to making it easy for European ...
Visa Europe: Payment tokenisation service launched
February 24th, 2015
Service protects customer data to enable secure and convenient payments across a variety of technologies Visa Europe today announces its plan to launch a tokenisation service customized for the needs of the European market. Tokenisation technology will be at ...
French bank turns to Twitter for money transfers
October 14th, 2014
One of France’s largest banks,Groupe BPCE, launched a service on Tuesday to allow its customers to transfer money to other people via tweets on social network Twitter Inc. (TWTR.N). Groupe BPCE , France’s second largest bank by customers, is an ...
