Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) announced the credit union has joined the Allpoint Network, which means PenFed members now have access to America’s largest surcharge-free ATM network, with some 55,000 surcharge-free ATMs worldwide. “This is wonderful news for PenFed members. As a best-in-class financial service provider, it is important that our members have convenient and
MasterCard announced Priceless Surprises is among the highest social media engagement generating initiatives live today, beating U.S. Twitter benchmarks within financial services and Facebook benchmarks across consumer industries. When compared against other MasterCard programs, Priceless Surprises engagement rate is three times higher.Over the past 12 months, unsuspecting MasterCard cardholders from around the world laughed, cried
Ingenico Group, global leader in seamless payment, announces a strong acceleration in the deployment of its mPOS solution in Italy, notably in response to a new legislative framework that requires all merchants to accept card payment for all transactions over €30. Over 45,000 merchants adopted Ingenico’s mPOS solution with over 1M transactions carried out in
Cardtronics, Inc., the world’s largest retail ATM owner / operator, has launched ATMpass, a membership program that gives consumers surcharge-free cash access at thousands of participating ATM locations. ATMpass was developed to give consumers the freedom to choose convenient ATM cash access, independent of their financial institution’s ATM network. With an ATMpass membership, users can
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading global technology company, has unveiled Samsung Pay, a mobile payment service that will enable MasterCard cardholders to use their Samsung Galaxy S6 for everyday in-store purchases.As consumers increasingly trade cash to use their cards through connected devices, Samsung is enabling a wider audience to take advantage of digital commerce.
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, and STS PayOne, a leading regional provider of ePayment solutions and services in Middle East and Africa, have announced a high-value, integrated solution that combines the market-leading ACI ReD Shield fraud prevention solution with the ePayment Gateway services offered by STS PayOne. The
Fujitsu delivers on its new Connected Retail strategy in enabling major international retailers and their customers to go mobile with a range of omni-channel services for the modern retail environment. By extending its revolutionary FUJITSU Market Place omni-channel Point of Service (PoS) application to mobile, Fujitsu offers PoS and clienteling solutions to measure customer engagement
The mobile payments company Fortumo is revealing its Emerging Markets Payment Index. Fortumo’s Index is intended to be used by web, game and app developers for benchmarking their revenue in markets with high smartphone growth and low credit card penetration. The Emerging Markets Payment Index focuses on markets highlighted by GfK in its global forecast
Visa Inc.announced that it has partnered with several leading financial institutions around the world to offer new mobile payment services. BBVA and Cuscal launched new issuer-branded mobile payment applications for mobile devices running on the Android operating system. Additionally Banco do Brazil, PNC Bank, N.A., and U.S. Bank intend to launch similar capabilities in the
Boku, the global leader in carrier billing-based mobile payments, has released Phone-on-File, a new cross-platform solution that allows a consumer to store their mobile phone number as their preferred payment method to enable a streamlined checkout experience for one-time and subscription purchases. While one tap purchases using carrier billing have existed exclusively on mobile for
