ECB has announced its plans for a new instant payments and settlement system that will enable businesses and consumers to send money in real-time across 19 countries. The TARGET Instant Payments Settlement Service (TIPS) will go live in November 2018 and take...
Barclaycard staffs are trialling a new Grab+Go app, which allows users to scan the items they want to buy and then complete their purchase with a single click Square has launched its Virtual Terminal service, which enables sellers to take payments directly on their...
Paytm, India’s largest digital payments startup, raised $1.4 billion from SoftBank Group in the largest funding round from a single investor for the country’s technology sector. The funding into One97 Communications, which operates the Paytm brand, will help the...
American Express has announced that cardholders can now use Amazon Alexa to check their account balance, review recent charges, make a payment and find out about new offers Monzo has announced that customers visiting a Monzo.me page on a phone or tablet that has...
Starling Bank is to launch a service that will allow companies to gain instant access to Britain’s payments systems so they can offer their customers real-time payments online or through mobile phones Square has started to take orders for its first debit card, a...
Apple is expected to launch its own mobile person-to-person payment service in 2017. According to a report in Recode, Apple has had discussions with Visa about creating its own prepaid cards which would run on the Visa debit network and would be tied to the new...
