Search Results for: digital payments
Worldline to join forces with Equens to strengthen its pan-European leadership in payment services
November 4th, 2015
A transformational deal for Worldline, providing the enlarged Worldline Group a highly comprehensive pan-European footprint, with leading positions and offerings in key geographies (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the Nordics). A transaction structured in two components: An asset/share deal in Financial Processing, by merging the processing ...
Visa Inc. to Acquire Visa Europe
November 2nd, 2015
Further to the released published today: Visa To Keep UK Presence After BoE Steps In, the company has just announced a definitive agreement for Visa Inc. to acquire Visa Europe. Strategic Acquisition to Create One Global Company That Further Extends Visa’s ...
MasterCard bids to make everything a payment device
October 27th, 2015
MasterCard is looking beyond cards and mobile phones, launching a programme that will let partner firms turn anything from purses to keyfobs to jewellery in contactless payments devices. Designer to the stars Adam Selman, automaker General Motors, wearable technology ...
Fintech Innovation Lab 2016 invites Applicants
October 21st, 2015
Accenture, Partnership Fund for NYC and Leading Banks Call for Applicants for New York FinTech Innovation Lab 2016 Program helps leading financial technology entrepreneurs accelerate product and business development Applications are now being accepted for New York’s sixth annual ...
Bitcoin flounders in Australia as regulatory worries bite
October 5th, 2015
Australian businesses are turning their backs on bitcoin, as signs grow that the cryptocurrency‘s mainstream appeal is fading. Concerns about bitcoin’s potential crime links mean many businesses have stopped accepting it, a trend accelerated by Australian banks’ move last ...
Europol: Bitcoin May Become Sole Currency for EU Cybercriminals
October 2nd, 2015
Europol has said in a new report that it believes bitcoin could become the go-to currency for digital criminals in the region. The European Union’s top law enforcement agency released its Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment for 2015 on 30th September, ...
“Bitcoin’s PayPal” : Why the Cryptocurrency Is Not a Good Payment Mechanism
September 30th, 2015
Leading Bitcoin startup BitPay is cutting costs, suggesting that the currency won’t be catching on soon. In 2014, a Bitcoin startup called BitPay raised $30 million from investors and was dubbed the “PayPal of Bitcoin” for helping companies such as Microsoft ...
Modernising VAT for cross-border e-commerce: Commission launches public consultation
September 29th, 2015
The European Commission has launched a public consultation to help identify ways to simplify the Value-Added Tax (VAT) payments on cross-border e-commerce transactions in the EU. The Commission is seeking to receive a wide range of views from business owners and ...
Algorithmic markets would save us from another financial crisis
September 21st, 2015
As the world recovers from yet another international stock-market roller-coaster — an outright crash probably only prevented by safety algorithms installed after the Singapore flash crash of 2013 — it might be helpful for us to remember a couple ...
MasterCard Delivers Android Pay to Cardholders in the U.S
September 14th, 2015
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) will power safe and secure payments with Android Pay Millions of MasterCard cardholders will soon have even more ways to make safe and convenient mobile payments. Today, Google announced that they are beginning to ...
