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Mastercard will work with South African partners to bring biometric cards to local consumers by the end of the year. The development follows two separate trials conducted recently with Pick n Pay and Absa. South Africa is the first

Mastercard’s Masterpass now claims to be the most widely accepted digital wallet in South Africa after concluding a deal to allow consumers to use its wallet at the more than 30 000 SnapScan merchants in South Africa. Mastercard and SnapScan

South African mobile payments start-up iKhokha and Mastercard have agreed to work together to boost payment card acceptance at micro, small and medium enterprises in informal settlements. In the next six months, iKhokha aims to roll

New standards to facilitate card payments using fingerprint authentication have been introduced to make transactions more secure and convenient for consumers. The Payments Association of South Africa, in partnership with

Banking group Absa has launched MasterCard’s MasterPass smartphone application in South Africa, allowing customers to use their mobile phones to make payments at the point of sale and on the Internet

Mobile payments are gaining acceptance and will impact on traditional businesses, says a research organisation. According to Gartner, half of consumers in developed economies such as

Depending on who you speak to, cash is either still king or simply yesterday’s hero. But what everyone agrees on is that the payment ecosystem of today is drastically different to what it was 20 years ago and technological innovations are quickly driving businesses and individuals to