Mastercard has launched a pilot program with the American Red Cross to use Mastercard Send to distribute funds to families in Indonesia via their mobile phones to buy water and other items during the drought season... More
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PayPal tops US digital payment preference
More than half of US consumers (60%) are currently using a method of digital payment with the most popular proving to be PayPal, used by 51%, a study conducted by Thales in conjunction with Wakefield Research reveals... More
Swiss railway to sell Bitcoin at 1,000 ticket machines
Swiss commuters will soon be able to buy Bitcoin at more than 1,000 ticket machines belonging to the country’s national railway service SBB from November 11, under a deal between SBB and payment and distribution services provider SweePay... More
Google Maps update enables food ordering from app
An update to Google Maps on iOS allows users to order food from their favourite restaurants directly from the app... More
US consumers trust banks most for payments
More than eight in 10 US consumers (82%) trust banks most to keep their payments safe, research from the American Bankers Association (ABA) reveals... More
TD Bank adds support for Microsoft Wallet
TD Bank in the US has begun supporting Microsoft Wallet... More
Android Pay adds 30 US banks and credit unions
Google has added an additional 30 banks and credit unions to its list of Android Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Businesses missing customers’ move to mobile payments
A third of global consumers expect mobile money to dominate payments within a decade, NTT Data predicts, while 31% of executives think mobile money “does not apply” to their business... More
US smartphone owners switch to mobile payments
More than half of smartphone owners in the US have used their mobile phone to pay for goods and services in-store and online, Mercator Advisory Group says... More
Amazon expands Amazon Dash to 60 new brands
Amazon has added more than 60 brands to its Amazon Dash Button program that allows consumers to reorder consumables around their home with a press of a button... More
Alipay heads to Australia with Commonwealth Bank
Alipay has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Commonwealth Bank of Australia to enable in-store and online payments for Chinese tourists in Australia... More
Brits using mobile payments abroad
One in 20 British millennial holidaymakers used a mobile payment abroad via Apple Pay or Android Pay this year, research released by the DCC Forum reveals, and one in 10 made a contactless card payment when on holiday... More
London taxis go contactless
All black cabs across London are now enabled to accept contactless payments, Transport for London (TfL) has announced... More
ING to extend Twyp to 3,500 retail locations
ING wants to enable Spanish consumers “to collect cash with their mobile” in 3,500 retail locations using Twyp, the bank’s P2P mobile payments app launched in December 2015... More
PBoC reports on China mobile payments market
The number of mobile payments made in China have grown 10% year on year since 2013, according to the People’s Bank of China (PBoC)... More
Blockchain NFC start-up focuses on expansion after $10m funding
Canadian payments start-up NanoPay has completed a US$10m Series A funding round... More
Contactless festival payments up 33%
Some 7m contactless payments were made at festivals this year using Hungarian company Festipay’s cashless payment service, an increase of a third on the previous year... More
One in four use mobile wallets in Singapore
More than a quarter (26%) of cardholders in Singapore now use a mobile digital wallet, with Apple Pay the most popular ahead of Android Pay and then Samsung Pay, Singapore Business Review reports... More