Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores. The company is developing systems that track what shoppers add to their carts and has held talks with Walmart concerning a potential collaboration, according to Reuters...
MF head, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the development of bitcoin and other digital currencies could make the global financial system safer, despite the ‘inevitable’ accidents PayPal has combined PayPal Here with ebizmarts’ iPad-based point-of-sale solution,...
ClearBank has partnered with Allpay to offer its ‘banking-lite’ services for the prepaid card market, enabling Allpay to provide a virtual account platform to its clients and customers, with access to Bacs, Chaps and Faster Payments. Sainsbury’s is planning to...
Ant Financial is planning to raise around $5bn in a funding round expected to value the Alibaba payments affiliate at more than $100bn Coinbase, which has blamed recent changes to the coding of cryptocurrency purchases for a recent spate of erroneous charges against...
Banco Santander has set a Q1 2018 launch date for the introduction of same day mobile international payments for personal customers using Ripple’s distributed ledger technology. Plans for the live roll out of the technology, which the bank has been piloting with staff...
Apple has announced that Discover and Wells Fargo are among the businesses supporting the roll-out of a new business chat application in iMessage, which allows users to have a text conversation with merchants and process payments from the same screen. Business Chat is...
