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Mastercard piloting turning smartphones into payment terminals
Mastercard unveiled a pilot project in Poland, turning smartphones into payment terminals for accepting contactless payments. The solution is aimed at...
Samsung Pay hits $9 billion of transactions in South Korea
Samsung Pay has driven its home advantage and processed 10 trillion won ($8.8 billion) in accumulated transaction volume in South...
UK contactless spend tops £370 million in H1 2017
Mobile contactless transactions topped £370 million in the first six months of 2017, a 336% year on year rise in...
Cash still king in UK but consumers are turning to contactless
The number of cash payments decreased by 11% between 2015 and 2016, but it still remains the most frequently used...
ICC Solutions releases ICCSimCTC: Visa HCE validated by Visa
ICC Solutions has released its Visa HCE test suite, hosted on the industry leading ICCSimCTC card test tool platform, which...
Tokenization: What is a smart token?
Before we get into the smart token bit, let’s recap. Tokenization is the security process that most recently unlocked the...
Market Overview: Payments in Russia
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, we examine payments in the world’s largest country. How do Russians pay today?...
Apple Pay’s first large-scale promotion in China intensifies its competition with Alipay and WeChat Pay
The size of Apple Pay’s share in the mobile payments market in China will depend on how well Apple Pay...