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The number of ATMs installed worldwide increased by more than 180,000 during 2012 so the global ATM market reached 2.6 million at the end of the year. This is one of the main findings from “Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2018” by London-based strategic research and consulting firm RBR. At 8%, the global market [...]

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SmartMetric, a developer of patented payment card technology and in-card biometric products, announced that its soon-to-launch SmartMetric Biometric Bitcoin Card, the world’s first biometric, fingerprint secured, off-line storage platform for bitcoins, will enable in-person P2P transfer of bitcoins through its payment card. “We believe our card will be the world’s first to enable in-person, P2P [...]

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With the holiday retail season now over, Jumio has released its December 2013 mobile commerce analysis, finding that retailers celebrated the most successful mobile holiday shopping season to date, yet still missed out on over £1.5 billion in mobile commerce sales due to the prevalence of outdated mobile payment experiences. While shoppers increasingly took to [...]

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ACI Worldwide announced that major payment device vendors including VeriFone, Ingenico and Equinox support its Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) solutions. P2PE is an emerging encryption technique in the payments industry that protects sensitive cardholder data in transit – as it is transmitted from a merchant’s store to its acquiring bank. ACI’s Point to Point Encryption solutions are used with the company’s leading retailer payments solution, [...]

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The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority has awarded a $184 million contract to upgrade its fare payment system to include mobile and contactless payments. The new system will widen payment options from Metro’s existing contactless SmartTrip cards to include EMV chip-enabled credit cards, federal government ID cards, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. However, the system will not [...]

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