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Barclays pushes out Pingit phone-based payment app

...number. Image credit: Barclays The Pingit app can be used to make payments to anyone who has a current account with any British bank or... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Ben Woods

MasterCard aims to stuff rival cards into its digital wallet

...MasterCard Initially, the service will pop up in the form of a payment icon at merchant websites, the second-largest payments processor said in announcing... Read more

8 May, 2012 by Roger Cheng

Barclaycard's PayTag aims to sidestep NFC handsets

...Barclaycard has introduced PayTag, a small contactless payment card that can be stuck to a phone or any other object... Read more

19 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

Orange and Barclays unveil Quick Tap mobile wallet

...Barclaycard have introduced the Samsung Tocco Quick Tap, which can make contactless payments via an NFC chip. Photo credit: Orange The Quick Tap scheme, announced... Read more

20 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Chip-and-PIN crack code released as open source

...transaction when Choudary alerted it to the test, he added. The UK Payments Association, which represents the interests of payment cards companies, said that an... Read more

25 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

EU launches antitrust probe into e-payments scheme

...an antitrust investigation into the development by banks of a standardised online payments system for the whole of Europe. The European Commission is looking into... Read more

27 September, 2011 by David Meyer
Google Wallet hits the town: In pictures

Google Wallet hits the town: In pictures

...happened. I held it there for a few seconds and still no payment registered. Finally, the people behind me in line were getting antsy, so... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

TfL promises '100-percent safe' contactless payments

...Transport for London executive has told a London Assembly committee that contactless payments for tickets on the network will be secure from fraud. Photo credit... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Sade Laja
Mobile-<endeca_term>payments</endeca_term> trial kicks off in Spain

Mobile-payments trial kicks off in Spain

...an NFC (near-field communications) antenna, which allows it to make contactless payments. Unlike in a 2008 London mobile-wallet pilot, the handsets are not... Read more

27 September, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

PayPal jumps into mobile payments game with Here

...PayPal announced on Thursday the launch of Here, a mobile payments system that will allow small businesses to accept payments through a smartphone... Read more

16 March, 2012 by Andrew Nusca

PayPal demos mobile NFC payments

...PayPal announced on Wednesday that it will begin supporting peer-to-peer payments to allow its customers to pay each other directly via their mobile... Read more

14 July, 2011 by Andrew Nusca

Wikileaks able to process MasterCard and Visa payments

...lifted, at least temporarily, as it is once again able to process payments via Visa and MasterCard. The two companies cut off payments to the... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Zoosh tech promises mobile payments by sound waves

...as fast as NFC (near-field communication), which is used in mobile-payments systems such as Google Wallet, although it is slower than Wi-Fi... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Rafe Needleman

Paypal sues Google over mobile payment trade secrets

...claims the technology giant has misappropriated trade secrets related to its mobile payments technology. PayPal has sued Google over claims the web giant misappropriated trade... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Starbucks serves up contactless payments

Coffee shop chain signs contactless payment deal with Barclaycard... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Shelley Portet

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