Cards & Payments

Linx, the leading retail technology specialist, announces its partnership with PicPay, one of Brazil's largest payment apps with over 13 million users, to offer retailers a new option for their customers from January. The joint action between Linx and PicPay...

Mastercard is to introduce an augmented reality app that will transport cardholders into an immersive 360-degree virtual environment from where they can explore the range of benefits that come with their card. The app takes users on a virtual tour...

Tencent and state-owned China UnionPay are integrating their QR code systems for mobile payments, according to local media reports. The move will let Tencent WeChat Pay and UnionPay Quickpass users transfer and spend money using the same QR codes....

Standard Chartered has launched SC GPI Track, a publicly accessible portal that offers the ability to trace all cross-border payments cleared through the bank’s major clearing centres to its clients, as well as its corporate and retail clients. As part...

Fingerprint Cards AB’s software platform for payments, FPC-BEP, and the FPC T-Shape sensor module have passed the accuracy and security test performed by Bank Card Test Center (BCTC). BCTC is an independent third-party test service provider based in China...

The KPMG Secure Payments solution is intended to address the key vulnerabilities that could arise in the payment chain. Israel-based cyber security company nsKnox has partnered with consulting firm KPMG to develop KPMG Secure Payments, a new anti-fraud cyber solution...

Designed to be a single connection that brings together multiple payment types, Mastercard Track Business Payment Service is expected to give greater control and richer data to optimise B2B transactions for suppliers and buyers Mastercard revealed its plans to modernise...