Financial Markets

Apple Pay Blocked At Two Major US Chains

CVS Health and Rite Aid disable Apple’s payment technology in their stores

10 years ago

UK ‘Biggest Market In Europe’ For Ecommerce – Klarna

Co-founder Niklas Adalberth tells TechWeek Europe that Apple Pay may not yet be the killer app

10 years ago

Mastercard Launches Fingerprint-Enabled Credit Card

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

10 years ago

Intel Makes Retail Payments More Secure With New IoT Security Tool

Intel Data Protection Technology for Transactions should mean fewer retailers run the risk of having customer data stolen

10 years ago

Tesco Tries Out Mobile Payment Shopping

Trial of PowaTag app available this week at Tesco's Dean Street Soho store

10 years ago

Twitter Users Can Now Send Money Via Tweets

New service currently available to any French Twitter users with a bank account

10 years ago

Zapp Teams Up With Retail Giants To Bring Mobile Payments To The High Street

New service will be introduced next year at Sainsbury’s, Asda, House of Fraser and many more

10 years ago

Carlsberg Launches The Smartest Beer Mats In The World

NFC-enabled Carlsberg mats offering free beer and special offers now in 250 pubs and bars across Denmark

10 years ago

London’s Tech Firms Set $1bn Funding Record

Landmark figure for venture capital investment reached in just nine months

10 years ago

Facebook Gearing Up To Launch Messenger Payments Service

Images of upcoming service using Facebook's instant messaging service revealed by hacker on Twitter

10 years ago

Confirmed: eBay To Split Off PayPal

Split to be completed mid-2015, with American Express executive Dan Schulman becoming PayPal President and CEO

10 years ago

TfL Hits One Million Contactless Payments In Just Nine Days

New service launched earlier this month as part of technology drive

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Mobile Payments

Mobile money is taking over, but do you know your PayPal from your Bitcoin?

10 years ago

PayPal Moves Closer To Full Bitcoin Acceptance

New agreement follows similar announcement by subsidiary Braintree earlier this month

10 years ago

Sage Takes Its SMB Accounting Software To The Cloud

Sage 50 Accounts gets a new interface, Sage Drive support, two mobile apps and a subscription model

10 years ago

Operation Emmental Targets Banks That Use Two-Factor Authentication

Cyber criminal gang devises a new, complex method of hijacking SMS to steal money

10 years ago

European Central Bank Held To Ransom Over Stolen Data

Hackers steal partially encrypted records from an events website that belongs to the bank

10 years ago

Lloyds Banking To Lead Part Of Government’s Digital Literacy Efforts

Lloyds will teach SMBs and charities how to maintain a website and accept payments online

10 years ago

App Intelligence Is Just The Ticket For London Travel

As London buses say 'goodbye' to cash fares, travel and mobile payment apps will become increasingly important, predicts Tom Levey,…

10 years ago

New Malware Family Threatens UK’s Online Banking Users

A Remote Access Tool called ‘Dyre’ can circumvent encryption

10 years ago

Hacker Earns £365,000 Mining Dogecoin With NAS Boxes

This could be the most profitable illegal crypto-currency mining operation in history

10 years ago

The Isle Of Man Embraces Virtual Currencies

Local authorities promote the island as the perfect base for Bitcoin and Litecoin operations, say they can prevent money laundering

10 years ago

PayPal President Leaves To Head Messaging At Facebook

David Marcus will be overseeing the development of Facebook’s messaging products

10 years ago

Hackers Raid DogeVault, Fate Of Customer Dogecoins Unclear

Some customers say their virtual wallets were emptied minutes before the website went down

10 years ago

Mt Gox Abandons Hope, Prepares For Liquidation

CEO of the bitcoin exchange Mark Karpeles has been replaced by court-appointed provisional administrator

10 years ago

Facebook Is About To Enter The Money Services Market

The social network is negotiating with Ireland’s central bank to become a licenced financial services operator

10 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S5 Launches In The UK With Biometric PayPal Authentication

The smartphone is the first to offer universal mobile payments secured by fingerprints

10 years ago