Later this Spring 2013 there is to be the unmistakable smell of contactless payments sweeping through German retail stores, says Visa Europe (EDITOR: and we’ll also stop with the perfumery puns!). Germany’s DOUGLAS Group will accept contactless and mobile payment in all chain stores in Germany. After a test run in December, the changeover of […]
MasterCard and Equity Bank of Kenya have announced an agreement at a signing ceremony in Nairobi to issue five million MasterCard-branded debit and prepaid cards, over the next 18 months. This program empowers African consumers to use electronic payments which provide a safe and secure way to pay, versus cash and other forms of payment. […]
Coles has announced an Australian supermarket first by revealing that MasterCard’s PayPass terminals have been deployed across every store in its network. PayPass terminals are now operating at every check-out across Coles supermarkets nationally, giving customers the fastest, most convenient, secure contactless payment experience. Across 14,000 lanes nationwide, including self-check-out services, PayPass enables customers to Tap&GoTM […]
VeriFone Systems, Inc. will provide the merchant payment solutions in the initial phase of the first major contactless payment rollout in Mexico City by the Mexican bank Banamex, which begins this August. Banamex, part of Grupo Financiero Banamex and a member of Citi, is implementing a full-scale contactless payment deployment. In the first phase, several […]
Russia appears to be gearing up for the contactless revolution with PayWave and PayPass. It was announced earlier this week that Visa will launching its PayWave contactless payment system in the Sedmoi Kontinent (Seven Continents) range of retail outlets with VTB carrying out the processing. MasterCard have also launched their PayPass contactless payment system with […]
Barclaycard Wireless Festival 2012 is to be the first music event in the UK to be fully contactless enabled, giving music lovers the ability to enjoy the experience without having to carry cash. All vendors at the festival will accept contactless payments, allowing customers to spend less time queuing and more time listening to music. […]
Poland’s political and economic reforms of the past 20-plus years have transformed this former Eastern-bloc country from an industrial has-been into a dynamic and forward-looking nation. As the first of the central European countries to overthrow Communist rule back in 1989, it has continued to lead development in the region, forging ahead with innovations aimed […]
With its super-size reputation and can-do attitude, anything the US does, it does big – and that’s certainly true when it comes to embracing mobile and contactless technologies. The world’s only remaining superpower is the third largest country by size (after Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and India). Regarded as the largest […]
