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Google to buy Softcard?

19 Jan 15 @ 09:20

It has emerged over the weekend that Google is leading talks to acquire Softcard, the troubled mobile payments company that is being eyed by a number of potential suitors, said people familiar... read more

FICO Acquires TONBELLER

14 Jan 15 @ 10:11

FICO has acquired TONBELLER, a provider of financial crime and compliance solutions based in Bensheim, Germany. The transaction has closed. Although terms have not been disclosed, the transaction is not... read more

Apple Pay continues company sign up success

29 Dec 14 @ 13:38

According to the New York Times, the list of companies working with Apple Pay continues to grow. On Tuesday, Apple announced that in recent weeks the company had signed up... read more

Ripple plug into Earthport payment hub

08 Dec 14 @ 16:51

Ripple Labs is to plug its real-time settlement protocol into the Earthport payment hub, opening new channels to market for the open source transaction technology. Under the partnership, Earthport’s customers... read more

Swift and Fiserv win $1 billion Australian payment system overhaul

02 Dec 14 @ 11:24

Australia’s new payment system will be delayed by a year after five institutions stepped back from funding the $1 billion project. It was announced on Tuesday that the Reserve Bank of Australia-backed real... read more

Compass Plus partner with security solution expert Futurex

01 Dec 14 @ 16:00

Compass Plus, the retail banking and electronic payments software providers, has announced that its open development payment platform, TranzAxis, has now been fully certified to support Futurex’s Excrypt SSP9000 hardware security... read more

Barclaycard completes acquisition of The Logic Group

28 Nov 14 @ 11:44

Further to the announcement on 8 September 2014 regarding the conditional acquisition of The Logic Group by Barclaycard (the Acquisition), Barclays Bank has announced that following receipt of competition authority clearance... read more

Skrill to acquire Ukash

27 Nov 14 @ 15:34

Skrill Group has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Ukash[ii].  On completion, this acquisition will add scale and reach to Skrill Group’s rapidly growing paysafecard, one of Europe’s... read more

Discover Financial sues Visa over anti-competitive PIN practices

26 Nov 14 @ 12:16

Discover Financial Services is suing Visa Inc , alleging the largest cards company has been using anti-competitive practices in its debit card business, and sought compensation for lost profit, court documents showed. Discover,... read more

Coinbase partners RewardsPay for iTunes bitcoin payments

21 Nov 14 @ 12:08

RewardsPay has opened its payments platform to Coinbase enabling online shoppers to use bitcoin for purchases at iTunes and Facebook. RewardsPay’s service lets people use the cash rewards they get... read more

McDonald’s deploys NFC mobile payments Softcard

12 Nov 14 @ 11:16

Softcard (formerly Isis Mobile Wallet) has won its first big deal with McDonald’s announcing a union between the two companies, bringing NFC mobile payments to roughly 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants. “We are... read more

Apple Pay pricing + T&C’s revealed for US banks

10 Nov 14 @ 10:58

According to the term sheet, which was picked up by equity analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Sanjay Sakhrani, Apple Pay will receive 15 basis points (0.15 percent) per credit... read more

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Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more

Banks to reinforce cyber defences as AI changes the threat model

22 Apr 26 @ 19:36

Banks are hardening their cyber defences as artificial intelligence begins to alter the economics of digital attacks. For financial institutions, the challenge ... more

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from t... more