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TfL: London Loves Contactless Payments

Over 1.2 million contactless transactions now made every day on the TfL network

9 years ago

MasterCard: Every UK Shop Will Accept Contactless Payments By 2020

Company also says Apple Pay can be switched on in the UK, if you're an American

9 years ago

MWC 2015 – Samsung Pay: The Industry Verdict

What does the technology sector really think of Samsung’s new mobile payments kit?

10 years ago

Critics’ View – Contactless Spend Limit Hits £30

What do the industry experts think of plans to up the contactless spend?

10 years ago

MasterCard Ploughs $20 Million Into North American Security

Announces US 'safety net' to reduce the risk of fraud or cyberattacks

10 years ago

Monitise Gets Major Investment For Mobile Money Expansion

Santander, Telefónica and Mastercard contribute to £49.2m investment, as Monitise also announces further IBM collaboration

10 years ago

Mastercard Offers Contactless Card Users Free Friday Tube Travel

Customers using their contactless Mastercard to pay for travel on London Underground this 'Fare Free Friday' will have their journey…

10 years ago

Mastercard – We’re Killing Off The Password

Payments company says the end is nigh for password authentication thanks to updated 3DS 2.0 protocol

10 years ago

UK Visitors Get Free Wi-Fi Thanks To The Cloud

MasterCard mobile app gives international travellers access from more than 22,000 UK hotspots

10 years ago

Mastercard Launches Fingerprint-Enabled Credit Card

Card provider teams up with Zwipe to launch new contactless payments method

10 years ago

Russia Considers Switching To National Payment System After Visa, Mastercard Block Banks

Seven Russian banks were hit by economic sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea, government wants to make sure this…

11 years ago

MasterCard The First To Lift “Banking Blockade” Against WikiLeaks

For the first time since the diplomatic cable leaks in 2010, Wikileaks officially accepts credit card donations

11 years ago

Anonymous UK Teenager Avoids Jail

Judge says Jake Birchall would have been jailed if he wasn't just 16 at the time of attacks on PayPal…

12 years ago

MasterCard Agrees Everything Everywhere NFC Partnership

Two companies to bring mobile payment products to Everything Everywhere's 27m customers

12 years ago

BitInstant Continues Sign-ups For Bitcoin Paycard

BitInstant says its virtual currency debit card could be real by October

12 years ago

BitCoin Debit Card Coming Soon

According to rumours, BitInstant will be launching a MasterCard with BitCoin support in six to eight weeks

12 years ago

MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom Agree NFC Mobile Payment Deal

Germany and Poland to benefit first from mobile payment deal

12 years ago

Hacker Claims He Stole 50Gb Of Credit Card Details

A former Anonymous member says he hacked 79 banks in 3 months, for the lulz

12 years ago

MasterCard Certifies More NFC Devices For PayPass

Samsung, Sony, LG, HTC, RIM, Nokia and Intel sign up to payment system

13 years ago

Global Payments: Breach Hit Less Than 1.5m Credit Cards

After warnings from Visa and MasterCard, payment processor Global Payments says less than 1.5 million credit cards were affected

13 years ago

MasterCard And Visa Warn Banks Of Credit Card Data Breach

Sources say that more than 10 million credit card numbers may be compromised

13 years ago

MWC 2012: PayPal Criticises NFC Payment Systems

PayPal warns against NFC while Intel gets behind the technology

13 years ago

Midata Gives Consumers Back Their Personal Info

BIS has partnered Google, Mastercard and others to help consumers access the data companies hold on them

13 years ago

Cash-Strapped WikiLeaks Suspends Publishing

Wikileaks will stop publishing leaked cables, as the payment companies' financial blockade takes its toll

13 years ago

Visa Blocks WikiLeaks Payments Again

Visa is once again blocking payments to WikiLeaks, closing the workaround which was uncovered yesterday

13 years ago

Visa, Mastercard Resume Wikileaks Payment Handling

Credit card companies Visa and Mastercard are once again processing donations to WikiLeaks, says DataCell

13 years ago

WikiLeaks Sues Visa, Mastercard Over Payment Ban

WikiLeaks and DataCell are seeking revenge on Visa and Mastercard for blocking donations to the site

13 years ago

Hackers Bring Down Mastercard Site

Hactivist attack on Mastercard continues reprisals for blocking payments to WikiLeaks

13 years ago

Twitter Denies De-Trending WikiLeaks As Visa Takes A Pasting

Twitter has stated it is not blocking Wikileaks from its Trends list. Elsewhere the DDoS attacks continue

14 years ago

Mastercard Website Punished For WikiLeaks Ban

Operation: Payback, a WikiLeaks’ supporter initiative, has turned its DDoS attacks on Mastercard

14 years ago