Mobile-only challenger bank Starling Bank has joined forces with Yoyo Wallet, a mobile payment and loyalty platform, to give customers the chance to benefit from loyalty programmes when they use their Starling payment card. Through the integration, Starling customers will be able to link their bank account to their Yoyo Wallet, so whenever they pay using their payment […]
China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
MasterCard has partnered with Turkish mobile retail firm Getir to integrate Masterpass – MasterCard’s digital wallet and mobile payments platform – into Getir’s bot on Facebook Messenger in Turkey. With this ‘first use’ of Masterpass through a bot on Messenger, customers can chat with Getir’s bot on Messenger ‘in a natural, conversational way’ to choose […]
Tesco is making it faster and easier for customers to pay for their shopping by extending the availability of its mobile payments app, PayQwiq, to every Tesco store in the UK. This follows positive feedback from customers during the initial roll-out. PayQwiq, available for both Android and iOS smartphones, allows customers to pay and also collect […]
TGI Fridays and Byron will soon be accepting the Qkr! with Masterpass app throughout its restaurants, letting UK customers pay from their smartphone using the app- speeding up the bill paying process. Group Individual Restaurants has also signed a deal with Mastercard to implement Qkr across their UK sites early in 2017, which will soon […]
UK retail giant Tesco is testing a contactless system that will make the paper receipt a thing of the past, instead sending a digital record of your purchases to your smartphone as part of the payment process. According to the Daily Mail, the system is being trialled at self-service tills in two stores in Harlow, […]
Payments platform PayPal and financial firm Visa have announced a strategic partnership that will see the two companies aim to consolidate their mobile payments offering, enhancing their security and growing the audience. According to Visa, the partnership will result in an improved and more seamless payment experience for Visa cardholders and will offer greater choice […]
Bank customers may soon be able to exchange money on social media on Facebook or Twitter. Following a trial in Singapore in 2017, the service would allow people to wire money by selecting their Facebook or Twitter account instead of entering a bank account number and sort code. The service will bring together 20 banks to allow […]
Online payment gateway Razorpay is collaborating with MasterCard to speed up the adoption of online and mobile payments among small businesses in India. As part of the collaboration, MasterCard has also invested an undisclosed amount in Razorpay. Additionally, Razorpay has integrated the MasterCard Payment Gateway to enable merchants and card issuers to authenticate each other […]
MasterCard is teaming up with British Airways and TfL as part of its ‘Trip Hack’ hackathon that will aim to create payments-enabled travel apps that help consumers make journeys across multiple forms of transport, whether its the everyday commute or an international holiday. More than 100 coders, designers and developers from around the UK will […]