Cyber Security

01 Mar 22 @ 16:43

Visa and Mastercard say they have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their network, complying with government sanctions. Visa said it was taking prompt action to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions,... read more

22 Feb 22 @ 09:00

A crisis is emerging in e-commerce. From week to week, new studies are published showing fraud attempts in e-commerce – and successful frauds – are rocketing. Meanwhile, governments in the... read more

08 Feb 22 @ 10:49

Remote and contactless payments popularity with consumers grew during the pandemic, which is prompting the need for a robust digital identity infrastructure in the Payments 4.X era.1 In the connected... read more

02 Feb 22 @ 10:40

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched its central database for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT). This European reporting System for material CFT/AML weaknesses, EuReCA, will be central to... read more

01 Feb 22 @ 13:12

The latest version of the European Central Bank fraud report is now available. The report, Seventh report on card fraud, analyses trends in card fraud in 2019 as reported by... read more

25 Jan 22 @ 12:07

Thanks to the pandemic, consumers have become accustomed to doing almost everything online, accelerating digital transformation and embedding new behaviours. After a 5% in global payment revenues in 2021, the... read more

24 Jan 22 @ 12:13

Experian has released its annual Future of Fraud Forecast, which reveals five fraud threats for the new year. With consumers continuing to take a digital-first approach to everything from shopping,... read more

24 Jan 22 @ 10:26

Spotlight on Corruption, an anti-graft charity, says economic crime costs the UK hundreds of times more than the government spends fighting it each year. Spotlight on Corruption, says in its... read more

18 Jan 22 @ 15:39

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Looking back at 2021 – which promised to be the year that the industry realised the full potential of data-driven transactions, instant... read more

17 Jan 22 @ 12:11

The administrators of the largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, UniCC, renowned or indeed infamous for stolen credit cards, are retiring after making an estimated $358 million (£260 million). The... read more

17 Jan 22 @ 11:36

2021 has gone on record as being the year criminals used a record amount of cryptocurrency for illicit purposes, but the overall growth of digital asset markets outstripped the rise... read more

11 Jan 22 @ 10:42

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which oversees financial stability, is to take steps to bolster banks on the cloud. Data storage is a systemic vulnerability just like financial risk. The regulator... read more