Barclaycard Global Payment Acceptance and Diners Club International, a business unit of Discover Financial Services, announced a new joint agreement to allow the acceptance of Discover and Diners Club cards by merchants using Barclaycard’s payment acquiring services. As a result of the agreement, thousands of small, medium and large merchants using Barclaycard’s payment acquiring services
MoneyGram announced an agreement with Lebara Mobile, one of Europe’s leading mobile telecoms operators, to offer MoneyGram transfer services over the Lebara Money mobile and web solutions. MoneyGram’s money transfer platform is now integrated within the Lebara Money iPhone and Android mobile payment platform solutions and the Lebara Money website, enabling customers in the United
MasterCard Worldwide and Kount, a leading provider of fraud prevention and management technology in the US, announced an agreement to make MasterCard’s Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for Merchants available to Kount and its merchant customers. MasterCard’s Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for Merchants Application Programming Interface (API) improves an online merchant’s ability to detect and prevent
Ireland’s largest provider of retail and web payment solutions, has announced that they have reached 6,000 contactless payment terminals in Ireland. Contactless payment cards are just beginning to emerge in Ireland, 6,000 Irish Sage Pay retailers have installed the machines. In the UK, over 143,000 card machines have been installed in the market as a
According to a new research report from Berg Insight, in-store mobile wallet payments in the EU is forecasted to grow from less than € 0.1 billion in 2012 at a compound annual growth rate of 275 percent to reach € 45 billion in 2017. This will correspond to 1.6 percent of the credit card and
Online and mobile payments are increasing globally, with new channels emerging. The recent “Global Online Payment Methods 2013 – First Half 2013” report by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com provides information about the worldwide movement toward online and mobile purchase transactions. The report is based on recently published information from a variety of sources and
MasterCard announced recently that it will deploy a target of 410,000 MasterCard® PayPassTM-enabled point of sale (POS) terminals throughout Japan over the next three years, enabling travellers visiting the country to enjoy the speed and convenience of making contactless transactions. PayPass, which is presently accepted at approximately 866,000 merchant locations in 51 countries, is offered
Gartner Predicts That Asia/Pacific Will Overtake Africa to Become the Largest Region Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will reach $235.4 billion in 2013, a 44 percent increase from 2012 values of $163.1 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The number of mobile payment users worldwide will reach 245.2 million in 2013, up from 200.8 million in
Discover Financial Services, parent company of PULSE Network LLC, today announced that U.S. ATM acquirers will soon have the ability to route JCB transactions over the PULSE Network, as PULSE becomes JCB’s preferred choice for global ATM transactions. ATMs in PULSE’s U.S. network will be able to accept JCB transactions beginning in August 2013. The
Global payments solution provider, DataCash, a MasterCard company, announced that it is partnering with Redecard to provide E-commerce Redecard, a payment solution for merchants across the entire Brazilian market. Redecard is a subsidiary of Itaú, the largest bank in Latin America and one of the largest banks globally. Itaú employs over 96,000 people and has
