Nationwide celebrates contactless technology by sending it into space (VIDEO)
Nationwide has carried out a contactless payment transaction 100,000 feet above the earth in extremely cold conditions.
Zapper becomes Alipay’s first UK mobile partner
Alipay, the mobile payment platform run by Ant Financial Services Group, has partnered with Zapper, the consumer insights and marketing platform which is enabled by mobile payments.
Mobile payments on the rise in Europe
The number of consumers using a mobile device, including a smartphone and a tablet, to make payments has tripled in the last year, according to a new study from Visa.
Vodafone and PayPal partner on contactless payments
Barclays got in on the act, as did Orange, not to mention Apple, Samsung and Google - now Vodafone's UK customers can make contactless payments after the telco company partnered with PayPal.
British people are ready to stop using cash
Cash in the UK is in quite the precarious position as new research shows that 44% of British people are prepared to ditch notes if card payments were universally accepted.
Go Cashless launches crowdfunding appeal
This week GoCashless, the not-for-profit organisation that aims to promote the end of cash by December 31st 2020, has launched a crowdfunding appeal.
Apple Pay launches in Russia with Sberbank and Mastercard
Apple Pay has launched in the Russian market allowing Sberbank clients and holders of Mastercard carrots use the American tech giant's contactless payment service.
PayPal-owned Braintree’s payment transactions have increased 25-fold
Three years on from being acquired by PayPal, Braintree, a company which allows merchants to process a range of different payments, has revealed the number of its payment transactions has increased by 25 times.
Cash decline in retail caused by contactless and lower fees, says new survey
Cash was used in under 50% of all retail transactions across the UK in 2015, according to the British Retail Consortium's annual Payments Survey.
British people trust banks to provide biometric payments
It's banks, not government agencies, that the British people trust to deliver biometric authentication payment services, says a new Visa study.
