Tagged: Contactless Payments
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Irish consumer expenditure on Visa cards reaches record €15.5bn News
15.01.2013 Annual Irish consumer spending on Visa cards – debit, credit and prepaid – has hit €15.5bn for the first time, an increase of 17pc on 2011 expenditure. Visa Europe attributes... -
Fast food meets faster transactions as McDonald's embraces contactless payments News
19.12.2012 McDonald's has become the latest brand to roll out contactless payments as 83 restaurants across Ireland are equipped with the latest in 'touch and go' Visa payment terminals.Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Hardware, Financial Services, Financial, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Arnotts is the latest retailer to roll out contactless payments News
17.12.2012 Department store Arnotts has become the latest retailer and the first department store in Ireland to offer contactless payments. -
The five minute CIO: Veronica Sullivan News
23.11.2012 Making budgets go further and shopping for good value is at the heart of grocery retailer and wholesaler BWG Foods’ approach to technology, as its head of IT Veronica Sullivan... -
Boots to accept contactless payment cards in all its stores News
04.10.2012 Contactless payments – the standard everywhere else in Europe – have finally arrived in Ireland. Pharmacy chain Boots has launched a contactless payments platform in conjunction... -
First Spar, Eurospar and Mace stores are equipped with terminals for contactless payments News
12.07.2012 Irish retail company BWG Foods and its technology partner CBE are rolling out terminals to enable customers to make contactless payments in Spar, Eurospar and Mace stores across... -
The digital business week News
11.07.2011 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Security, Media, Internet, Financial Services, Financial, eCommerce, Communications -
Orange launches UK's first contactless mobile payment service News
20.05.2011 UK mobile phone company Orange has joined forces with Barclaycard to launch the UK’s first contactless mobile payment service. -
Visa Europe to invest €100m in mobile and e-commerce News
08.04.2011 Visa Europe is planning to invest €100m each year to generate growth through the union of card payments with mobile and e-commerce, the company announced today. -
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O2’s entry into money market will lead to NFC mobile wallet News
17.02.2011 Ireland’s second-largest mobile operator Telefónica O2 is bringing out a new money card for consumers that will allow them to buy goods and services in most retail outlets. New... -
The mobile wallet News
07.04.2011 Near field communications is becoming more prominent, potentially turning the humble mobile phone into a means of paying for products.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Financial Services, Financial, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Cheque-ing out News
07.04.2011 Ireland’s reliance on cheques is slowing down businesses, but moving on won’t be easy. Laura O’Brien looks at what we can do to make the leap to e-payments. -
O2 Ireland CEO sees the smartphone and wallet becoming one News
24.02.2011 Last week’s entry by Telefónica O2 Ireland into the financial services market, with the launch of its O2 Money cash card for consumers, is really a clever dress rehearsal for a... -
Contactless payments to debut in Irish marketplace - Visa boss News
04.02.2010 The staff canteen at Ulster Bank’s Dublin office was the scene of an historic first – Ireland’s first contactless card payment – heralding in a new era of electronic...Tags: Ulster Bank, Contactless Payments,