The American tech giant has launched its mobile payment service, Apple Pay, in Spain, partnering with Mastercard, Carrefour and American Express.
ING has announced that it is scrapping Twyp, its peer-to-peer payments app, in the Netherlands following negative feedback from its customers.
Expansion into rural areas is they key driver of the impressive card acceptance growth happening in developing markets, finds new research from RBR.
Barclays is set to jump on to the contactless cash trend by allowing customers to withdraw up to £100 by tapping their smartphones or contactless cards at the ATM.
Cash and other paper-based transactions are still the most popular way of paying Canada, a new Canadian Payment Methods and Trends (CPMT) report has found. But for how long?
With Black Friday approaching, it's time to take a quick look at how the modern day Brit likes to shop, and it looks like the behaviour is in the midst of a noticeable evolution.
If there is one metric that can be used to most clearly present the rising success of contactless payments, it would be monthly spend. New research from the UK Card Association shows that monthly contactless card spending has passed the £2 billion mark in July.
The contactless technology momentum doesn't only apply to the ever increasing spending as new research from analyst firm Berg Insight predicts that nearly 80% of the world's POS terminals will be contactless within the next four years.
NatWest, Worldpay and Thyngs have partnered with the Royal British Legion to introduce contactless and mobile donations to Poppy Appeal.
The e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has said its sales for this year's Singles Day, an event held every year on 11/11, hit $18 billion, an increase of 32% on last year's total of $14.3 billion.
By Shari Krikorian, senior vice president, Mastercard
