(31 March 2017 – Australia) The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has denied major Australian banks in their request to collectively bargain with Apple for access to […]
(30 March 2017 – United Kingdom) Square Payments has announced its launch into the UK, expanding the number of countries it now services to five, including Canada, Japan, […]
(27 March 2017 – Australia) US based payment solutions provider, Square has announced integrations that will give business owners across Australia who are using alternative point-of-sale and order […]
(20 March 2017 – Hong Kong) Alipay has struck a partnership with Standard Chartered as the company looks to expand its footprint and deepen its mobile-payment push into […]
(16 March 2017 – Global) US electronic payments company Euronet Worldwide Inc launched a US$1 billion (A$1.3 billion) bid for rival MoneyGram International Inc. The firm says its […]
(15 March 2017 – Australia) The four Australian banks battling Apple for access to the iPhone's near-field communication function say that it is “unrealistic” to expect them to […]
(9 March 2017 – Singapore) The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced the successful conclusion of the proof-of-concept project to conduct domestic inter-bank payments using blockchain technology. […]
(8 March 2017 – Italy) Apple Pay is “arriving” in Italy with support from Mastercard, Visa, Carrefour Banca, UniCredit and German payment processor Wirecard’s Boon service, Apple’s website […]
(22 February 2017 – India) Indian consumers are now able to make QR code-based mobile payments using BharatQR, a “low cost, interoperable mobile acceptance solution” backed by the […]
(21 February 2017 – Asia) Alibaba’s finance arm, Ant Financial has revealed yet another deal. The firm will invest US$200 million (A$260 billion) into a fintech project belonging to Kakao, […]
