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UK Contactless Spending Limit Rises To £30
From today, you’ll be able to spend more money than ever before using contactless cards or Apple Pay
BNP Paribas ‘Testing’ Bitcoin For Currency Funds
Reports claim BNP Paribas is investigating using cryptocurrency for currency trading
Barclays Looks To Speed Up Mortgage Applications With Quick Scan App
Scan and Attach will help brokers process mortgage applications faster than ever before
Lloyds Cuts Jobs Amidst New Digital Focus
Over 9,000 jobs will be slashed and 150 branches closed under new strategy
Apple Pay Attracts 1m Subscribers In Just Three Days
Possible Alibaba partnership could help further reach of Apple Pay to Eastern markets
SnapDonate Lets You Give To Charity Via Your Smartphone
New image recognition app allows you to make donations from your device’s camera
Apple Pay Blocked At Two Major US Chains
CVS Health and Rite Aid disable Apple’s payment technology in their stores
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
Mastercard Launches Fingerprint-Enabled Credit Card
Card provider teams up with Zwipe to launch new contactless payments method
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
Tesco Tries Out Mobile Payment Shopping
Trial of PowaTag app available this week at Tesco’s Dean Street Soho store
Twitter Users Can Now Send Money Via Tweets
New service currently available to any French Twitter users with a bank account
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
Facebook Gearing Up To Launch Messenger Payments Service
Images of upcoming service using Facebook’s instant messaging service revealed by hacker on Twitter
O2, EE, Vodafone, Bring Carrier Billing To The High Street
Operators team up with payments provider Boku to offer new service
Confirmed: eBay To Split Off PayPal
Split to be completed mid-2015, with American Express executive Dan Schulman becoming PayPal President and CEO
PayPal Moves Closer To Full Bitcoin Acceptance
New agreement follows similar announcement by subsidiary Braintree earlier this month
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
Operation Emmental Targets Banks That Use Two-Factor Authentication
Cyber criminal gang devises a new, complex method of hijacking SMS to steal money
European Central Bank Held To Ransom Over Stolen Data
Hackers steal partially encrypted records from an events website that belongs to the bank
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
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, chief technologist at AppDynamics
New Malware Family Threatens UK’s Online Banking Users
A Remote Access Tool called ‘Dyre’ can circumvent encryption
Hacker Earns £365,000 Mining Dogecoin With NAS Boxes
This could be the most profitable illegal crypto-currency mining operation in history
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
Hackers Raid DogeVault, Fate Of Customer Dogecoins Unclear
Some customers say their virtual wallets were emptied minutes before the website went down
Mt Gox Abandons Hope, Prepares For Liquidation
CEO of the bitcoin exchange Mark Karpeles has been replaced by court-appointed provisional administrator
Samsung Galaxy S5 Launches In The UK With Biometric PayPal Authentication
The smartphone is the first to offer universal mobile payments secured by fingerprints
Teradata Universe: “Data Enables The New Economy”
The future will belong to companies that make data-driven decisions and value the trust of their customers, says Hermann Wimmer from Teradata