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For the past five years, mobile payments have been trumpeted as ‘this year’s big thing’ – but finally, this year, the claim is being substantiated. For me 2014 marked a watershed, when the idea of using a mobile phone to pay for actual goods in a shop became truly mainstream. But why is now the [...]

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Momentum for Amazon’s payments service Login and Pay With Amazon appears to be building after a sluggish start. In January, Amazon reported strong growth in the service among mobile users last year, with more than a quarter of such payments made with a mobile device while orders processed by businesses using Login and Pay With [...]

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Banque Populaire says that will now be using the HPS’s PowerCARD solution to process electronic payment transactions of all of its subsidiaries in Africa. The partnership between Banque Populaire and HPS dates back to 2001 when the PowerCARD solution was implemented to manage all Moroccan electronic payment activities of the Group that offers today a [...]

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UATP has teamed up with Bitnet as a payment processing partner. This relationship will allow UATP to offer its Network of 260+ airlines the ability to accept bitcoin payments in a simplified manner. “We are very happy to be partnering with Bitnet to add bitcoin to our payment platform. We are always looking for skilled [...]

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A clear majority of banks believe that they will have to overhaul their core banking infrastructure over the next three to five years if they are to face off the threat from more agile competitors, according to research conducted by Finextra. The study, ‘Invigorating Banking’, conducted on behalf of next-gen banking vendor Five Degrees, calibrated [...]

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