Concert- and theatre-goers, tourists and music fans in South Africa can now purchase their tickets to various festivals, events and tourist sites online or via their mobile and simply load their tickets onto their Webtickets card. ‘The Card’, as it is formally known, means you no longer need a printer to print off tickets. And
Orange and Visa Europe have announced the commercial launch of Orange Cash in Caen and Strasbourg, two of the cities with the highest use of contactless payments in France. With the launch Orange becomes the first mobile network operator in France to offer mobile contactless payments to its customers. The Orange Cash application acts as
U.S. Bank employees are piloting software that lets customers speak a simple passphrase, such as “my voice is my password” to access a credit card account on a mobile device. The feature – called voice biometrics – allows select credit card customers to use their voice to login with a spoken passphrase so they can
Online banking and mobile operating system (OS) malware saw a marked increase during 2013, according to a TrendLabs study. The fourth quarter of 2013 saw a 200 per cent increase in the number of banking-related malware incidents. “Online banking malware took center stage in terms of volume increase. Our number of online banking malware detections
Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) Namibia, a network and Telecommunications Company, has partnered with Mobicash Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd, trading as MobiPay to offer mobile payment solutions in Namibia. MTC Money is a payment solutions that allows you to use your cellphone to transfer/withdraw/deposit money, buy airtime, electricity, pay bills and make Point of Sale (POS)
AfrAsia Bank has introduced a rewards program offering real time booking on over 450 airlines and at 200,000 hotels to its World and Titanium MasterCard cardholders. In collaboration with Infinia Services & Solutions and MasterCard, this rewards program enables cardholders to earn XtraMiles whenever they swipe their World or Titanium MasterCard credit cards. XtraMiles is
European consumers are concerned that draft EU legislation currently under discussion would make paying with cards more expensive and more complicated. According to a recent poll in 13 European countries, 2 in 3 consumers believe that proposals to cap interchange fees would make it worse for them to use their bank cards and 8 in
FIS a provider of banking and payments technology, has announced its selection by Microsoft as a partner in the fight against cybercrime. The global companies signed a partnership agreement today at Microsoft’s Cybercrime Enforcement Summit in Redmond, Wash. Under the agreement, FIS representatives will work hand-in-hand with forensic analysts, software developers and researchers at the
First Data Corporation, a provider of in payments processing and electronic commerce solutions, has released its First Data SpendTrend analysis for Jan 2014, compared to Jan 2013. SpendTrend tracks same-store point-of-sale data by credit, signature debit, PIN debit, EBT, closed-loop prepaid cards and checks from nearly four million U.S. merchant locations serviced by First Data.
2013 marked an important mobile payment’s “first,” with tablet payments comprising almost half of all mobile commerce. Javelin Strategy & Research have released Mobile Payments Market: Tablet Payments Surge as Overall Mobile Retail Sales Top $60 Billion which provides an in-depth study of the mobile shopping market, including market sizing of online, app and proximity
