Smart Payment Association (SPA) considers that the new Payment Service Directive (PSD 2) draft represents a significant restructuring of financial regulation applicable to retail payments. Its chief goals are to increase competition in the retail payments market, and to give European citizens the confidence of a reinforced legal system that works for, and protects, them. It
Wargaming.net has announced that they will begin to accept Karma Koin, a prepaid card solution developed by Nexon America, for in-game purchases in their highly successful massively multiplayer online (MMO) war titles. Available in denominations ranging from $10 – $500, Karma Koin can be purchased at more than 75,000 stores in the United States, Canada,
Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, announced that it has been ranked number one in ABI Research’s competitive assessment of companies providing contactless solutions (NFC) to Mobile Network Operators, device manufacturers and service partners. ABI Research’s vendor matrix analysed competitors’ strengths
NCR Corporation the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, announced that Boston Market Corporation has started deployment of the NCR RealPOS™ 72XRT in all of its over 460 locations. The powerful, scalable and reliable high-performance point-of-sale (POS) technology allows Boston Market long-term reliability, due to its rugged construction and processing power. RealPOS 72XRT continues NCR’s leadership
As the public voting closes on this the eighth annual South African eCommerce Awards, uAfrica.com is pleased to announce the finalists (in alphabetical order) in the 2013 eCommerce Awards: • Style36.co.za • 5rooms.com • bidorbuy • Citymob • Groupon – South Africa • HomeChoice • Hot Online Fashion • kalahari.com • Loot.co.za • Mr Price
ROAM an Ingenico company and the leading mobile commerce platform provider, announced that Cynergy Data, a leading US payment services provider (with over 100,000 merchants), has chosen ROAM’s white-label solution to power its new Vwalaa! Mobile Pay offering. Now, merchants, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) and Financial Institutions (FIs) can take advantage of the massive mobile payment
Identive Group, Inc. a provider of solutions and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, announced that its board of directors has appointed Jason Hart as chief executive officer and director, effective immediately. Hart replaces Ayman S. Ashour, who has resigned his executive role but will remain on the board of directors as non-executive
The GSMA recently released data showing that there are over 23 million mobile money subscribers in Kenya which is about 74% of the country’s adult population. Mobile money has rapidly grown from a money transfer system to a payment platform supporting many financial products. The launch of M-PESA in 2007 was a critical breakthrough that
NCR now offers its NCR Cloud Services via two highly secure, category Tier 3 data centres in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands to meet the rising demand for cloud computing. According to market forecasts presented by the Experton Group, German companies will be investing around 17 percent of their IT budget in cloud computing by 2017. NCR’s hosting services help NCR
Jaiz Bank Plc, the first full-fledged non-interest bank in Nigeria has entered into a partnership with Teasy Mobile Money (a CBN-licensed Mobile Payment Operator) to provide financial services to Nigerians, through Mobile Phone. This is part of their efforts to implement financial services inclusion of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to everyone in the
