Apple Pay has launched in France and Hong Kong, bringing the total number of supported markets to nine. In France – the third European country where Apple’s mobile payment service is available, following the UK and Switzerland – Apple Pay will support ...
Visa has made its NFC payment ring, which debuted at the Rio 2016 Games on the fingers of Visa-sponsored athletes, available for public pre-order. The rings, using a design by McLear & Co including a secure microchip made by Gemalto and an embedded NFC antenna, can ...
Samsung Pay has launched in Australia, the fifth market where the mobile payment solution is available. It first launched in Samsung’s home territory of South Korea last August, and has since rolled out in the US, China, and Spain. It has processed the equivalent of more ...
Google has launched its mobile payment service Android Pay in the UK. Building on Android Pay’s US launch last September, the UK has the benefit of a much wider adoption of the contactless payment system Android Pay relies on, which covers most ...
Dimoco has acquired Onebip, an Italian mobile payments firm specialising in direct carrier billing services, from former shareholder Neomobile. The acquisition is intended to expand the German-based company’s presence across the European carrier billing market. “The combination of Onebip’s position in the Italian market with our ...
UK-based mobile payments service Droplet has been closed down, five years after it launched, due to failing to reach ‘the scale to make Droplet viable as a profit-making business’. That quote is taken from a statement posted on the company’s website on Friday 15 July, which ...
CurrentC, the mobile payment service developed by US merchant alliance MCX, is ending its beta test and postponing future releases, seemingly folding in the face of competition from the likes of Apple Pay. The beta – which has been taking place in Columbus, Ohio, since last ...
Mobile payment companies SumUp and Payleven have signed a deal to merge into a single company. Both companies’ products will continue to operate, under the SumUp name, bringing together SumUp’s end-to-end hardware and payment platform with Payleven’s merchant acquisition capabilities. The merged company expects ...