07.02.2019

Romania is fifth in Europe and tenth worldwide by the number of contactless card payments, said Ana Maria Pochi, account manager MasterCard Romania, citing a company study. more

04.23.2018

Contactless payments with smartphones or smartwatches will become frequent in Romania in two years as users want such services, the infrastructure to accept such payments is there and several banks more

05.11.2016

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has seen significant growth of contactless payments over the last two years and currently, in Romania, one in ten card payments processed by Visa is contactless, said more

02.24.2016

The number of contactless card payments in Romania using MasterCard and Maestro bank cards increased more than seven-fold last year compared with 2014, while the value of payments was ten times more

02.24.2015

The seven local banks that issue contactless cards (which enable card holders to make small payments without having to pass the card through a POS or input the PIN) have reached more than 1.3 million more

04.23.2014

VeriFone, one of the world’s leading providers of technology for electronic payment transactions, plans to expand its Romanian presence and increase the number of POS terminals installed outside more

04.11.2014

The six domestic banks that issue contactless cards have reached a portfolio of around 440,000 such cards and an acceptance network of around 5,500 contactless POS terminals. more

10.29.2013

The Romanian market of contactless smart cards is expected to double in 2014 at nearly 400,000 units, issued by Visa and MasterCard, and 10,000 contactless POS (point-of-sale) terminals, according to more