Transport for London to overhaul Oyster technology
With many users of London’s tubes, trains and buses embracing contactless card payments, TfL is exploring new options for its Oyster card system.
With many users of London’s tubes, trains and buses embracing contactless card payments, TfL is exploring new options for its Oyster card system.
Those friendly emails asking for your help in securing access to a long-lost diamond mine may finally be at end, as Nigeria takes a bold new step in the fight against identity theft.
Troubled payday lender Wonga will close its Dublin and Tel Aviv offices and let a total of 325 employees go as its profits continue to fall.
Myanmar’s move to open up its economy to outside investment has seen the formerly cash-based country hurtle towards alternative payment adoption.
Nearly a third of phishing attacks last year focussed on gaining access to payment systems and e-commerce sites, according to a study by security experts Kapersky.
Whistleblowers, blackmailers, hackers and anyone with a grudge will soon be able to sell confidential information of all kinds through Darkleaks in return for bitcoin payments.
Building on the shop online, pick-up local model rolled out by companies like Walmart and Amazon, Curbside now offers customers the option of drive-by pickups for internet orders.
Card giant Visa is to give its online and mobile payments a serious safety boost by rolling out the Visa Token Service (VTS) to a far wider audience.
Scottish customers are more likely to use digital payments than the rest of the UK, with mobile prospects particularly strong over the next two years.
China’s conventional banking sector is battling it out with the e-commerce industry by launching a rival version of the popular “red letter” promotion.