Samsung Pay expands to Russia and goes online
Samsung Pay is expanding into three new countries including Russia, and has partnered with Mastercard to introduce online payments.
General Motors, IBM and Mastercard partner on in-car payments
General Motors and IBM have partnered to create OnStar Go, a cognitive mobility platform for the automotive industry.
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.
Nets partners with Spire for Dankort mobile payments
Fresh from its $4.5bn IPO, Nordic payments processor Nets has picked Spire as its partner to help with the physical roll out of mobile payments for Dankort customers.
PayPal, Intel and Lenovo partner to bring biometric authentication to laptops
It seems laptops are about to catch the biometric fever as PayPal, Intel, Lenovo and Synaptics are collaborating to introduce FIDO-enabled embedded fingerprint solution to PCs.
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.
Stripe partners with Mastercard to speed up payments in today’s sharing economy
Mastercard is working with Stripe to expedite the payment process for American sellers on the latter's marketplaces using the instant payouts feature from Stripe.
Barclaycard’s new partnership sees smartphone cases go contactless
Barclaycard has partnered with Case Station, a company that makes personalised phone cases, to embed contactless technology in the latter's smartphone cases.
“Send 10 Euros to Sam” – N26 Bank lets users send money with Apple’s Siri
Digital challenger bank, N26, which has been live for one and a half years and has more than 200,000 customers, rolled out a new feature that allows its customers to transfer money using Siri. All they have to do is talk to it.
Cashless transactions a hit at festivals, says Barclaycard
Cashless transactions at this year's British Summer Time festival increased sharply as more small and micro-businesses started to accept card, mobile and contactless transactions, says Barclaycard.
