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Brazil’s central bank has “ordered Visa and Mastercard to suspend the start of activities or immediately stop using the WhatsApp application to initiate payments and transfers”. The move follows Facebook’s launch of WhatsApp payments in Brazil just last week. The Banco Central do Brasil’s motivation for the decision “is to preserve an adequate competitive environment, […]

Rail passengers using Eurostar services to travel between London and continental Europe are set to be the first to use a new face recognition system to board their train “without showing a ticket or passport”. The new walk-through system “will allow customers to complete ticket checks and border exit processes at St Pancras International station

PARTNER NEWS: Xiaomi is to use NXP’s mWallet 2Go technology to let consumers across Europe make payments using its low-cost Mi Smart Band 4 wearable. “NXP’s mWallet 2Go is designed to ease development, reduce cost and accelerate time to market for OEMs to add mobile payment capability to any wearable and mobile device,” the chip

Apple has announced a new App Clips service that will enable brands, merchants and service providers to use NFC tags to let iPhone owners quickly and easily download a mini app, which they can use to access information about a product or service — and pay for coffee, car parking or scooter rental without needing

Apple iPhone users will be able to lock, unlock and start vehicles using a new NFC CarKey feature from next month, Apple has announced, with BMW the first vehicle manufacturer to add support for the new service. CarKey is based on Car Connectivity Consortium standards and, from next year, will also include support for ultra

NatWest is working on the development of a behavioural biometrics solution for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) that could be used as a replacement for banking passwords, the UK bank has announced. “Behavioural biometrics works by analysing the unique ways a customer interacts with their device when making an online purchase,” NatWest says. “The technology uses

Consumer-facing solutions and programmes based on EMVCo’s Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) specifications are now to be known as Click to Pay, the standards body has announced. “This universal description enables ease of recognition for consumers, and signals that a consumer can confidently transact through an easy e-checkout, regardless of the payment card, digital channel or

Visa has introduced a new cloud-based token framework that makes it possible for tokens to be enabled “across all of a consumer’s devices” and “are directly integrated with the consumer’s bank”. The new Visa Cloud Token technology has been introduced first in Brazil, to support the launch of Facebook’s new WhatsApp payments service. “Grounded in

WhatsApp users in Brazil can now make payments to local merchants and send money to friends and contacts “without leaving their chat”. “Payments on WhatsApp are enabled by Facebook Pay,” WhatsApp says. “In the future we want to make it possible for people and businesses to use the same card information across Facebook’s family of

Google is working on “a major overhaul” of Google Pay that will see the service expanding into “a one-stop portal for commerce”, The Information reports. The move is aimed at “jump-starting its use in the US,” the publication says. “Under Google’s plan, users will be able to click on a merchant’s branded button inside Google