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18 May 20 @ 10:39

EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren has pressed the European Commission to act on the growing problems facing retailers and wholesalers resulting from the limited scope of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR).... read more

18 May 20 @ 07:00

New ID verification (IDV) solutions are emerging that revolve around mobile phone ownership and possession together, thereby detecting both stolen numbers and fraudulent numbers when performing a phone number check.... read more

14 May 20 @ 12:04

Diebold Nixdorf has succumbed to a ProLock ransomware attack that is reported to have disrupted some operations. First reported by Krebsonsecurity, the ransomware attack struck the company April 25 and... read more

14 May 20 @ 10:54

Mastercard is facing a claim of up to £14 billion in a landmark UK collective action case over interchange fee charges that were passed on to shoppers. This week, a... read more

14 May 20 @ 10:11

Mastercard has updated its operating metrics with an additional two weeks of information, in which it is monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related actions being taken by... read more

13 May 20 @ 15:37

The sudden boom in e-commerce caused by government mandated social distancing and in-store business closures is already generating a sharp increase in fraud and chargebacks. “In the past few weeks,... read more

13 May 20 @ 10:29

I think that the fact that COVID-19 has ravaged economies and industrial sectors does not need to be mentioned again, however the impact on FinTech is now starting to be... read more

12 May 20 @ 13:25

As the world comes to terms with the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have on the health and lives of many, some are left wondering exactly what the... read more

12 May 20 @ 13:07

Yesterday, Bitcoin went through a much-hyped adjustment that reduced the rate at which new coins are created. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency’s so-called “halving” happens roughly every four years. Halving cuts... read more

11 May 20 @ 16:03

Ingenico Group, Nets Group, Nexi, and Worldline have announced the launch of an EU advocacy alliance bringing together Europe’s independent payment services providers. The “European Digital Payments Industry Alliance” (EDPIA)’s... read more

11 May 20 @ 15:35

The European Central Bank (ECB) says it will look into what a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) form of the euro might look like. The ECB set up a... read more

11 May 20 @ 15:03

Payvision, a global FinTech and omnichannel payments provider, announced today that it has appointed Andre Valkenburg as its new CEO. Andre brings more than 20 years of experience in the... read more