Payments

Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores. The company is developing systems that track what shoppers add to their carts and has held talks [...]

MF head, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the development of bitcoin and other digital currencies could make the global financial system safer, despite the ‘inevitable’ accidents PayPal has [...]

ClearBank has partnered with Allpay to offer its ‘banking-lite’ services for the prepaid card market, enabling Allpay to provide a virtual account platform to its clients and customers, with [...]

Ant Financial is planning to raise around $5bn in a funding round expected to value the Alibaba payments affiliate at more than $100bn Coinbase, which has blamed recent changes to the coding of [...]

Banco Santander has set a Q1 2018 launch date for the introduction of same day mobile international payments for personal customers using Ripple’s distributed ledger technology. Plans for the [...]

Apple has announced that Discover and Wells Fargo are among the businesses supporting the roll-out of a new business chat application in iMessage, which allows users to have a text conversation [...]

Amazon is to open its first checkout-free grocery store to the public this week. Amazon Go, in Seattle, has been tested by staff for the past year. Atos has announced three new initiatives to [...]

Google has announced that it is bringing together all the different ways to pay with Google, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into a single brand, called Google Pay LG has announced that [...]

Alibaba and Honda have signed an agreement to offer online payments to drivers for fuel, parking and other services in China Alipay has released research showing that 82% of the transactions on [...]

Accenture has reported that nearly a third of retailers are ready to start taking advantage of Open Banking reforms in order to provide services such as faster refunds, in-store access to [...]