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Verdict Staff

Square acquires Evenly for easy payment app

Square, a California-based merchant services aggregator and mobile payments company, has acquired a bill-splitting app maker Evenly.

Planet Payment offers new currency service to BCA’s merchants in Indonesia

Planet Payment, a US-based multi-currency payment processor, has offered its Pay in Your Currency service to Indonesia-based PT Bank Central Asia (BCA) to offer convenient shopping experience to merchants and customers in the country.

Around 86% New Zealanders aware of contactless cards payments: RFi survey

Majority of the New Zealanders are using contactless cards to pay for purchases less than $80, according to a new independent research conducted by global business intelligence provider RFi.

Visa Europe, Garanti Bank and Turkcell enter a mobile contactless payments partnership

Visa Europe, Garanti Bank and the Turkish mobile operator Turkcell have entered a partnership that will allow Garanti Bank’s Visa credit cardholders in Turkey to make contactless payments through a Turkcell Wallet.

alizz islamic bank launches new Shari’a compliant MasterCard credit card in Oman

Oman-based alizz islamic bank, in collaboration with MasterCard has launched a new Shari’a compliant Titanium and Platinum MasterCard Credit Card.

Westpac to introduce mobile phone contactless payment service in Australia

Australia-based lender Westpac is set to introduce a new mobile phone contactless payment service in early 2014, which will allow consumers to make payments just by tapping their phones.

Three Japanese banks to enable foreign credit cardholders to withdraw cash

Three Japanese banks, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Bank, will allow foreign tourists holding credit cards issued overseas to withdraw cash at local ATMs.

YellowPepper, Cachet team up for mobile deposit technology in Latin America

Latin America’s mobile banking and payments pioneer YellowPepper has joined forces with US-based remote deposit capture (RDC) solutions provider, Cachet Financial Solutions, to offer mobile remote deposit capture services for its YEPEX Mobile Banking Network.

DB Networks joins PCI Council to improve payment data security

DB Networks, a California-based information security company, has joined the PCI Security Standards Council to contribute to the improvement of payment data security worldwide through the ongoing development of the PCI Security Standards.

RBC to bring P2P electronic money transfers to Facebook Messenger

Royal Bank of Canada has announced that it will provide a social, person-to-person (P2P) electronic money transfer capability for customers to send money to Facebook Messenger contacts.