Consumers globally are increasingly using alternative payment methods to purchase video games instead of credit or debit card, according to research findings unveiled by WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments. Video Games Payment Preferences, a whitepaper exploring the payment landscape and purchasing frustrations in the video game industry based on
Fiserv, Inc. a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced the availability of Predictive ScoresSM, a new predictive modelling solution for customer behaviour. Predictive Scores leverages insights from multiple, complex data sets (so-called “Big Data”) to provide timely, actionable information that enhance the success of marketing and performance management strategies within financial institutions. Predictive
Discover Financial Services has become the latest payment network to join the growing membership of EMVCo, the EMV® standards body. Discover will work alongside EMVCo’s existing members to manage and evolve the contact and contactless EMV industry specifications to facilitate worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure chip payment instruments. Discover has acquired a one-sixth share
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) offers a new SIM platform that allows several different NFC applications to be executed securely and simultaneously on a single SIM card. The SkySIM CX SIM-card family provides protected areas that can be used for electronic payment and ticketing applications and for customer loyalty programs. Network operators will thus be able
NCR Corporation announced that it has won a volume order from Agricultural Bank of China (“ABC”) for more than 1,500 NCR SelfServTM automated teller machines (ATMs), which includes NCR SelfServ 22 and SelfServ 25 models. NCR has out-competed other providers in this bid, securing the largest share of order from ABC and further consolidating its
Javelin Group and Paythru announced the launch of Ignite, a next generation contextual mobile marketing and payments proposition for the global retail sector. Javelin Group, a European omni-channel retail consultancy, and Paythru, a m-commerce payments provider, have combined retail and technology expertise to develop Ignite, which delivers the right message to the right customers, in
FreedomPay, the creator of the world’s most innovative commerce platform, joins Microsoft at SIBOS 2013 to introduce payments platform as a service. This cloud-based payments and incentives solution takes advantage of the FreedomPay Commerce Platform to deliver mobile payments, offers, digital wallet and commerce solutions with banking-grade security through an alliance with Microsoft. “Our banks
According to the Gulf Cooperation Council ecommerce is booming globally, with MENA ecommerce sales set to hit $15 billion by 2015. Conversely, only 15% of businesses in Middle East currently have an online presence which means there is still lot of scope for growth for the E-commerce industry.
Stay on top of fashion, get a great price from a local merchant, and buy your hot dog and peanuts at the ball game—all from a mobile device? At the Innovation Showcase MasterCard displayed the many ways it is revolutionizing the consumer shopping experience. Held in conjunction with its annual Investor Day, the Innovation Showcase
Digicash is a mobile payment App that enables clients of affiliated banks to use their smartphones to pay directly from their bank accounts. Started in 2012, it has been deployed on a national scale in Luxembourg. With P&T Luxembourg as the second bank to offer Digicash as of July 2013, this mobile payment product is
