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Will You Be Paying With Cash, Credit, or Your Face?

July 30, 2024 by

In something straight out of CSI, Uniqul is creating a new payment method based on facial biometric technology that will allow any subscriber to pay with their beautiful faces.

India’s ICICI Bank Curries NextGen Consumers For Mobile Payments

July 23, 2024 by

India’s ICICI Bank launches a mobile payments service built by Movida, the Indian joint venture between Visa and mobile money specialist firm Monetise.

500 Million Cell Phones Vulnerable To Exploit

July 22, 2024 by

Your trusty SIM card could be a potential backdoor for hackers. Hackers may be able to open up access to the phone, including recording calls, sending and receiving messages and calls that can lead to charges, and worst of all, payment fraud.

Mobile Shopping: Pain Free With Simple and Braintree

July 11, 2024 by

In a move that may shake up the competitive mobile payment marketplace, Chicago-based payment platform, Braintree, is partnering with Simple, a leading online mobile banking service.

Bank Like An Egyptian

June 25, 2024 by

MasterCard has partnered with Egyptian Banks Company (EBC), Etisalat, and the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) to launch Flous.

Seamless Launches SEQR Mobile Payments Solution in Kuwait

June 20, 2024 by

Kuwait International Bank and McDonald’s are partnering up with Seemless, the Swedish mobile payments solution, to introduce the SEQR mobile payments platform into the state of Kuwait in the Middle East. Through this partnership, Kuwait International Bank became the first financial institution in the Middle East to use SEQR as a mobile payments platform. The […]

Mobile Payments the Next Avenue for Money Laundering?

June 17, 2024 by

It is estimated that 1 in 5 of the world’s population have access to banks and financial services. This is mainly due to the cost of creating and maintaining the infrastructure necessary that most countries just can’t support. To fill this void for the unbanked and the underbanked, mobile payment providers have turned cell-phones and […]

E-Commerce Giant Amazon to Launch in India

June 6, 2024 by

Amazon has launched its Amazon Marketplace in India. Amazon India will begin to offer only books, movies, TV shows, and video products, but more product categories will be introduced soon.

Myanmar Poised to Ramp Up Mobile Phone Payments

June 4, 2024 by

The number of mobile payments is expected to dramatically increase in Myanmar as the government is set to “grant two new telecommunications licenses at the end of this month,” Business Week reports.

China UnionPay and China Mobile Introduce NFC Payment Service

June 1, 2024 by

China UnionPay, the national bankcard association in China, and China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network, have implemented their Near Field Communications (NFC) payment service and mobile wallet in over 14 major Chinese cities including Beijing and Shanghai with support from eight banks.

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