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iZettle Begins Mobile Payments Test In UK
iZettle, the mini chip-card reader and app turns an iPhone or iPad into a credit card terminal, today announces the launch of its invite only beta programme with MasterCard, American Express and Diners...
View ArticleCan You Live With Mobile Money Alone?
The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones recently tried to spend a few days getting by only with mobile money; spending just with his smartphone. You can see how Rory got on in the video...
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PayPal inStore: PayPal Comes To The High Street
PayPal has begun a new initiative with a select group of UK high street fashion stores, to allow customers to pay using an app on their phones. The app, PayPal inStore, is a separate app to the normal...
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HSBC Fast Balance App For Android
HSBC has launched its Fast Balance app on the Android smartphone platform. As we reported at the start of April, HSBC had been a little slow to bring out banking apps for smartphones, but their Fast...
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Barclays Mobile Banking App
Barclays has released a new mobile banking app for iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones. The Barclays mobile banking app allows you to manage both your Barclays accounts and Barclaycards from within a...
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Google Wallet Upgraded; Adds More Credit Cards, Changes Security
Google has announced some fairly major changes to its Wallet mobile payment system. Firstly, it has announced that it will now accept cards from Visa, American Express and Discover. In order to do...
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Natwest Mobile Banking Usage Stats
Natwest have revealed usage statistics for their mobile banking facilities. The figures were revealed by Ben Green, Head of Mobile Retail at RBS, at the Apps World conference. According to their stats,...
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Barclays Integrates PINSentry Into Mobile App
Could we finally be seeing the end of the online banking dongle? Barclays have had their PINSentry device for a while, and not so long ago, HSBC introduced their ever-so-popular SecureKey keypad,...
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Pay By Text To Launch In 2014
The Payments Council has announced that UK mobile phone owners will be able to send and receive money by text from 2014, simply by sharing their mobile numbers. Rather than having to swap account...
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Birmingham Payment Startup Droplet Looks For Funding To Go Nationwide
It’s not often I watch the local news these days, nor do you see much on TV about payment technology, so imagine my surprise when I was fortunate enough to see BBC Midlands Today run a news story on...
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Droplet Signs Up Chiltern Railways & Airparks To Mark London Launch
Birmingham-based technology business Droplet marked its London launch in style by announcing it has sealed the backing of two major retailers. Chiltern Railways and Airparks were unveiled as the first...
View ArticleBarclaycard “PayWag” April Fool Video
April 1st always prompts a slew of companies trying to get some publicity with an April Fool, and the mobile payments industry is no exception. Barclaycard this morning released a sponsored video which...
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M&S To Trial Mobile Payment App
Marks & Spencer is to start trialling its own mobile payment app, which to begin with will allow customers to choose and pay for items in select M&S coffee shops. M&S appears to be...
View ArticleOnline Banking: What To Do If It Goes Wrong
There have been quite a few high profile cases of online banking going wrong over the last year, including the problems faced by RBS & Natwest and more recently Nationwide. In a lot of cases,...
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Send Friends Personalised IOU Reminders Courtesy Of NatWest
NatWest has developed a microsite which allows you to send personalised IOU reminders to friends who owe you money. The site features a series of hilarious* characters for you to choose from, including...
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Infographic: Mobile Payments In 2015
The following infographic from Mobile Payments Today and Cellum takes a look at how mobile payments are currently being used and how they may change over the next few years. (Click the image for larger...
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Mobile Cheque Deposits Coming To The UK
According to reports in both The Telegraph and The Guardian, the government is on the verge of agreeing to allow cheque deposits to be made by photo, letting you submit cheques by phone or email. This...
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Pennies: New Budgeting iPhone App
This week sees the release of a stylish new budgeting app for iPhone. The developers of Pennies believe that budgeting should be really simple, and the app aims to have you up and running in seconds....
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iZettle Continues Expansion: Now Available In The Netherlands
iZettle, which claims to be “Europe’s number one mobile payments provider” has extended its European expansion to the Netherlands. To celebrate the launch, the first 5,000 entrepreneurs and small...
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Apple Pay Coming To The UK In July 2015
Apple has announced that its payment service, Apple Pay, is launching in the UK this July. Apple have partnered with some of the UK banks for the launch, including: Bank of Scotland Halifax Natwest...
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