Digital payments
Digital payments
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Swatch Group AG plans to start selling a timepiece that can make contactless payments in the U.S., Switzerland and Brazil early next year through an agreement with Visa Inc.
November 30 -
While consumers hunt for deals during the holiday online shopping frenzy, fraudsters are doing the same using the credentials they've hoarded from any number of data breaches the past year.
November 30 -
The holidays are approaching, and mobile is going to play a bigger role in e-commerce than ever before. Last year, mobile holiday shopping traffic surpassed desktop for the first time and retailers are expecting even higher mobile traffic this year.
November 27 -
Amazon.com is big enough to try things that other retailers would find too risky. Over the years it has developed many groundbreaking payment technologies and revolutionized e-commerce, but not all of its ideas have done well.
November 26 -
WorldRemit app users can now send funds to any bank account in Vietnam, as the money transfer provider expands into Southeast Asia.
November 25 -
The U.S. is a long way from widespread adoption of EMV, but security analysts say the boom in online shoppingplus a surge in consumers' use of mobile devices for holiday purchaseswill make it easier for fraudsters to hide their moves as they redirect their efforts from retail to online channels.
November 25 -
Mobile payment users are still in short supply, and the growing range of options may be seen as too chaotic for consumers who haven't yet used a mobile wallet.
November 25 -
Apple Pay has reportedly made plans to launch in China by early February.
November 24 -
To counter the rising rate of e-commerce fraud, U.K.-based myPINpad plans to provide a virtual PIN pad for mobile-generated online transactions through the VocaLink network for the next five years.
November 24 -
ShopKeep's most recent survey of its 20,000 merchant clients shows two mobile payment trends at odds with one another.
November 24 -
The volume of payment apps is reaching critical mass. From retailers to coffee shops to airlines, companies across virtually every industry have developed a mobile app to make the payments experience simpler and faster for their customers and to gather more data on who they are and how they spend their money.
November 24 -
Diebold and Wincor Nixdorf which plan to merge under the name "Diebold Nixdorf" were already in the midst of major projects to digitize bank branches and retail stores before the pressure from mobile devices led them to join forces to keep pace with innovation.
November 23 -
Chase Visa cards are now compatible with Samsung Pay, the smartphone maker's mobile payment system that combines magnetic secure transmission and Near Field Communication.
November 23 -
Small business professionals using the New Zealand cloud accounting software Xero can be alerted on their finances through Apple Watch.
November 23 -
Mobeewave combined two Canadian staples hockey and contactless payments to test a technology that allows smartphones to pay 'each other,' and is now taking the concept on the road to other markets.
November 23 -
As shopping gets more digital, so does fraud. The rise in technology at shoppers' fingertips provides many new channels for scammers to exploit.
November 20 -
Black Friday will mark a new milestone this year, when mobile devices for the first time will account for about half of all online purchases during the first weekend of the holiday shopping frenzy, according to a new study.
November 20 -
There's no shortage of upstarts trying to cut cost, time and risk out of global money transfers. To maintain its position, Western Union is investing in the technologies it finds the most promising while keeping others at arm's length.
November 20 -
The market for international e-commerce in China is growing much faster, and working much more smoothly, than attempts by Western companies to launch within the country.
November 19 -
Apple Pay has gone Down Under, reaching its fourth country since its 2014 launch in the U.S.
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