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MasterCard and Zwipe announce world’s first biometric contactless payment card
MasterCard and Zwipe announced their partnership for the launch of the world’s first biometric contactless payment card featuring an integrated fingerprint...
Alibaba make new financial services push
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has folded six different businesses into a single business unit and...
SIA launches mobile money service
Italian payment processor SIA has launched a SEPA-compliant smartphone-based mobile money transfer service, enabling users to send and receive money...
Kotak Mahindra offers Facebook mobile money transfers
Indian bank Kotak Mahindra (KMB) has unveiled a mobile money transfer service enabling Facebook users to make funds transfers to...
Japanese social media network Line moves into payments
Japanese social media messaging network Line has entered the payments market with a service for both online and in-store transactions....
New UK regulator will supervise Visa and MasterCard
The UK government is planning to put supervision of MasterCard and Visa alongside the UK’s main interbank payment systems under...
200 billion card payments worldwide in 2013
A total of 205 billion card payments were made worldwide in 2013, a rise of 13% on 2012, according “Global...
UK card transactions top 1 billion a month for the first time
The number of UK card transactions, made by either debit and credit, in a single month passed 1 billion for the first time...