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Bangalore based Ezetap Mobile Solutions, which was founded in 2011, was chosen by State Bank of India, the largest public sector bank, to launch a 5-year 500k m-POS deployment. The start-up was chosen given it has a price tag of less than USD 50 and...
French Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB) is testing a Natural Security Alliance approved biometric payment system, which would be available by EOY. In a first phase a fingerprint-reading chip will be integrated into a key fob and it is intended to sequentially incorporate it into...
Alibaba – the Chinese e-commerce mega-retailer that is preparing for an IPO widely forecasted to be one of the biggest money makers in the history of international commerce –has just dipped its first toe into selling directly to U.S. consumers with the launch of 11...
Due to an increase in cyber crime in Kenya, prepaid card holders are becoming more hesitant on using their cards to make purchases. According to data from Central Bank, the number of prepaid card transactions slowed month-on-month from October 2013 to February 2014. Specifically, the...
Taxi drivers from London to Madrid plan to bring traffic to a halt this afternoon, across Europe’s most popular shopping and tourist locations, in protest of Uber, reports Bloomberg. The San Francisco ride-sharing app poses a threat to traditional taxi services globally, as its reach expands to...
Earlier this week, Payoneer, Inc. announced that it had received an investment from integrated financial services provider Ping An. Payoneer is an online payments company, and company executives believe that this partnership will be greatly beneficial, especially as Ping An is the largest non-state-owned business...
Tencent announced yesterday that it shut down 20 million of its WeChat messaging app accounts because they were linked to providing prostitution services. According to a The Next Web article, if all of those accounts were active, a significant chunk of Tencent’s 396 million accounts...
