American Express is to make an API available for its Serve digital wallet platform, Harshul Sanghi, the new VP of the company's enterprise growth group has told Techcrunch. "The wallet that has the most brand...

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(The Paypers)  The German parliament’s lower house (Bundestag) and upper house (Bundesrat) have approved the 2011 Tax Simplification Act, a piece of legislation that includes a modification of the requirements for electronic invoicing for value added tax (VAT) purposes....

(The Paypers) MasterCard Worldwide will equip restaurants belonging to global sandwich franchise SUBWAY with PayPass-enabled contactless payment terminals at more than 7,000 US locations by the end of Q1 2012....

BlackBerry Tag will let RIM NFC phone users add each other as BBM contacts and share multimedia content via NFC.

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(The Paypers) Global financial services provider Citigroup and American wireless services provider América Móvil have announced a USD 50 million joint venture (JV) for mobile banking services in Latin America, according to online media outlet Financial Times. The JV will be operating in Mexico by Q1 2012....

(The Paypers) Zimbabwe-based MNO Telecel has teamed up with local third party transaction handling business ZimSwitch Mobile to launch a mobile money transfer service for Zimbabweans....