Samsung has developed a new way for consumers to pay for entertainment media directly through their TV sets. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal as well as other mobile billing options.

Flint Mobile, a smartphone application that allows SMEs and freelancers to get paid digitally, has updated its application by leveraging Apple’s Passbook technology.

Square has added Ruth Simmons, former Goldman Sachs board member and president of Brown University, to its board of directors.

TransferWise, the international money transfer platform, has been named as one of the World Economic Forum’s ‘technology pioneers’, a selection of the world’s most innovative companies.

This infographic looks into how the mobile payments landscape will change in the next few years, including forecasting the amount of transactions that are made on mobiles by 2017, and which smartphone brand will dominate in the next year.

On 31st July over 103m payments were processed in the UK, the equivalent of 111,000 every single minute according to Bacs, the non-profit debit card processor.