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Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne (BPCE) has partnered with Twitter to let customers tweet money to each other via a P2P payments service. From October 2014, everyone with a bank card and a Twitter account in France will be able to use the P2P payment service through BPCE’s S-Money unit. Details on how the system will [...]

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Regulators in the Asia-pacific region are looking at rolling out a SEPA-style single payment area, but what will be the challenges of such a project in one of the most fragmented payments markets in the world? Increased trade flow between Asia-Pacific and Europe is driving payment activities between financial institutions within these two regions. But [...]

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The global payments and transaction-banking businesses continue to represent vital elements of the banking industry and the global financial-services landscape. The importance of these businesses both as critical sources of stable revenues and as the foundation of customer relationships and loyalty has grown steadily in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down. The [...]

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Yaap, the joint-venture between CaixaBank, Banco Santander and Telefónica, has releases Yaap money – a mobile app that facilitates the secure transfer of P2P payments instantaneously between users’ mobile phones. In order to send and receive money, users of the app will not need to know bank details – just the mobile number, Facebook username [...]

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The Point of Sale systems in use in many retail businesses nowadays are not only some sort of fancy cash register. Gone are the days of manual encoding and punching of items purchased. In comes faster service as shopping habits of customers have drastically changed since. Customers are into quick services as many individuals are [...]

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