MasterCard Survey Reveals Americans Anxious about Personal Security but Optimistic About New Ways to Pay

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Every day it seems information security is ruling the headlines; Americans are (perhaps understandably) feeling insecure about the security of their financial information. In fact, according to a new survey from MasterCard, a majority (77 percent) are anxious about their financial information and social security numbers being stolen or compromised. This fear runs so deep

Four Pillars of the Payments Future

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With Greece sinking and the global economy slowing, attention is shifting to new emerging consumer markets of the future, says Mike Lee, ATMIA’s CEO and a futurist. ATMIA’s 2015 Conference and Expo, “Customer experience and channel usage in Africa’s emerging payment and consumer markets”, will look into four pillars of the payments future in the region, namely: Innovation Consumption

Avalara integrates with Stripe to Help Web and Mobile Businesses Stay Compliant with Sales Tax

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Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based software delivering compliance solutions related to sales tax, VAT, and other transactional taxes, announced an integration with Stripe to provide calculation and compliance services to companies using Stripe, a payment platform for web and mobile merchants. Avalara’s cloud-based solutions are now fully integrated with Stripe’s subscription billing service,

Nok Nok Labs and IDEX Combine Best in Class Security and Fingerprint Sensor Technologies for Convenient Online Security

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IDEX ASA, a leader in the development and commercialisation of high performance fingerprint sensors, has entered into a partnership with Nok Nok Labs, an innovator in modern authentication and a founding member of the FIDO Alliance, an industry consortium launched in 2013 to revolutionize online security with open standards for simpler, stronger authentication. IDEX and

Bank M Targets 25bn/- Profit

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Bank M said it is on the right track of realising its profit target of 25bn/- from its operations this year, after good performance during the first half, reflecting a bright future for the institution. The bank registered a pretax profit rise of more than 25 per cent to 11.51bn/-in first half of the year

Digital River Teams up with Global Mass Payments Provider Payoneer

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Digital River, Inc., a leading global provider of Commerce-as-a-Service solutions, announced it has teamed up with Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments. Designed to provide quick, simple and cost-effective mass payouts and fund transfers to professionals and businesses worldwide, Payoneer’s technology complements the Digital River

New Zealand’s First Mobile Wallet Expands with Public Transport

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Kiwis can enjoy the convenience of using public transport with only their smartphone, thanks to the addition of Snapper to the Semble mobile wallet app. Launched in March this year, Semble now boasts two service categories including payments and public transport. Thousands of customers who are already using Semble to make everyday payments with their

OT Equips Brand-New ZTE nubia Z9 Family to Enable Secure NFC Applications

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Oberthur Technologies (OT), a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space announces that the new nubia Z9 and Z9 Max are equipped with PEARL by OT, its state-of-the-art NFC embedded Secure Element (eSE) to enable more NFC applications. OT’s advanced eSE opens the door for nubia to deploy convenient payment and transport

CRDB Bank Mobile Branch Useful at Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair

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CRDB Bank mobile branch has proved efficient in providing banking services to foreign and domestic companies participating at the ongoing Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF). CRDB bank In charge of the mobile branch Ms Rose Daniel said in Dar es Salaam at the ongoing DITF that the presence of the mobile branch has

IDEX Enters into a Strategic Worldwide Biometric Card Partnership with a Global Payments Company

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IDEX ASA , a leader in high performance fingerprint sensors, announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with an undisclosed global payments company for the development of a worldwide biometric payment card program. Mass adoption of fingerprint sensors in the mobile market and recent developments of mobile payment applications are changing the paradigm for