ScramCard
Hong Kong-based ScramCard has snagged a seven-figure private investment from Stewart Milne CBE.
ScramCard users upload their credit and debit cards to a universal card with high security features.
MasterCard’s global hackathon will hold its grand finale in San Francisco on December 4 and 5. The Masters of Code competition will include the winning teams from each of the 12 regional events.
CardFlash News Briefs: GPN (talech); MYPINPAD (VocaLink); AZIMO (Nigeria); and UNIONPAY (Hong Kong).
Bank of China has unveiled its first US-themed Great Wall Global Pass travel mate credit card for mainland China. Bank of China had issued Hong Kong-Macau-Taipei-themed, South Korea-themed, Japan-themed and Southeast Asia-themed Great Wall Global Pass travel mate credit cards.
In today’s CardFlash News Que: VECTOR (Sequent); AOC (3Delta); VODAFONE (Wallet) and UNIONPAY (Hong Kong).
Starting October 30, UnionPay International, the exclusive sponsor of Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), will offer multiple exclusive privileges, including that of buying tickets in advance, to its cardholders.
American Express is committed to make Apple Pay to be available in key global markets allowing its cardholders to pay on the go with an iPhone, Apple Watch or iPad. Apple Pay is expected to be available for Card Members in Canada and Australia this year and in Spain, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2016.
Visa has integrated token technology into Visa Checkout, the company’s online check out service used by merchants and consumers globally. Additionally, Visa is working with merchants to apply token technology to “cards-on-file.”
Visa Checkout in Brazil is real. The first merchant to offer Visa Checkout is Futebolcard, the Brazilian service which allows soccer fans to purchase tickets for games in 12 different stadiums.
According to the requirements of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a cap on annual cash withdrawal overseas (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the same applies hereinafter) is newly imposed for UnionPay RMB cards issued in mainland China, in addition to the currently cap requirement of ten thousand RMB equivalent on cash withdrawal per card per day.
In today’s CardFlash News Que: NCR (NBS); PAYCOMMERCE (Citi); CARD1 (crowdfunding); and FLIPKART (execs).