Explore the latest developments, challenges and opportunities by attending South Africa’s foremost Next Generation Payments event and hear from highly distinguished speakers coming from the SADC region and internationally based expert speakers; a 3 day event running from 5,6 and 7 March 2014. The increasing use of mobile platforms, retail cash sending transfers, near field
VeriFone Systems, Inc., has announced that its portable payment acceptance systems, the VX 680 and VX 675, have been deployed by e-finance to facilitate the state-sponsored transition of Egypt’s entire gasoline and petroleum products retail market to an electronic payment system. e-finance, Egypt’s first and largest payment gateway service, was awarded the modernization contract in
Identive announces that its Board of Directors has approved the sale of non-core businesses as part of a plan to simplify the company’s organizational architecture and enhance its focus on high-growth products and markets. Within the next few months, the company expects to execute agreements to sell its Multicard U.S. business as well as the
Paga, the mobile payments company in Nigeria announced its partnership with Nigeria’s online bus ticket pre-booking engine − Bus.com.ng to provide alternative ticket payment channels. This partnership will allow bus.com.ng customers to utilise Paga’s secure and easy to use payment options to pay for bookings online at www.bus.com.ng, via SMS and through the vast Paga
Kopo Kopo, a merchant services platform serving thousands of businesses in East Africa, announced that it raised $2.6 million in Series A financing. Javelin Venture Partners led the round with Vinod Khosla’s Impact Fund, an existing investor. Accion Venture Lab also participated. Noah Doyle of Javelin Venture Partners will join Kopo Kopo’s board of directors.
October marks the one year anniversary of the mPOS tracker, an industry report produced by PYMNTS.com and sponsored by ROAM, a leader in the mobile commerce industry. In just one year, this sector has experienced extraordinary growth, which tracked 17 players in 2012 to now over 90 players. A newly released PYMNTS.com infographic provides details
Fiserv, Inc. a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that it has redesigned its award-winning online banking solution, Corillian Online®, incorporating new digital money movement capabilities into a simplified, task-focused design. The latest licensed version of Corillian Online from Fiserv brings Popmoney® person-to-person (P2P) payments and account-to-account transfers to the home page
IKEA Group, the world’s leading brand in home furnishing products, has entrusted its furniture point-of-sale infrastructure as well as its software and system operations to a single partner: Wincor Nixdorf. Over the next two years, the Paderborn-based IT solutions provider will install 12,000 POS systems in nearly 300 IKEA stores in 25 countries. The recently
Ingenico worldwide provider of payment solutions, announced that its Telium 2 range is now certified with EMP (Emerging Markets Payments) requirements. Working with more than 130 banks and 30 000 retailers, EMP is the leading electronic payments processing company in the Middle East and Africa. Thanks to the certification with Ingenico payment terminals, EMP customers
MasterCard announced the launch of the first bank-issued digital wallet service in Australia powered by MasterPass – CommBank Checkout from Commonwealth Bank. Commonwealth Bank customers shopping online with CommBank Checkout will now be able to make purchases at thousands of MasterPass-enabled online retailers around the world – and more than 200 Australian retailers including; Event
