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10 Jul 19 @ 10:34

Facebook has officially revealed plans for its much anticipated global cryptocurrency LibraCoin, with the backing of a number of major companies. Facebook’s ambitions for the new currency, called LibraCoin, were made... read more

04 Jul 19 @ 11:24

According to a new report by Yandex.Money, Russian customers are noticeably using contactless payment methods to pay for purchases: the number of payments made with smartphones has increased nearly threefold... read more

02 Jul 19 @ 11:47

Nets and Swish have announce their collaboration on an in-store payments pilot programme. Until now, Swish has mostly been used for account-to-account transactions and, more recently, e-commerce payments. Now, the... read more

01 Jul 19 @ 06:18

Researchers at the premier dark web data intelligence company, Terbium Labs, have released the findings of new research that examines the deeply intertwined nature of payment card fraud and transnational crime. Results... read more

01 Jul 19 @ 05:39

As powerful cross industry groups piled on the pressure, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its response to the European Banking Authority’s Opinion on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) under... read more

01 Jul 19 @ 05:22

In a recent interview , David Solomon, CEO of  Goldman Sachs said the bank could “absolutely’ follow JPMorgan Chase in launching its own cryptocurrency. Solomon then went further by saying... read more

27 Jun 19 @ 08:51

Both challenger and traditional banks are growing their focus on helping consumers save money. As customers increasingly look to save money for a rainy day and become more fiscally responsible,... read more

27 Jun 19 @ 08:23

With Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) coming into force on 14 September 2019 as the final part of PSD2, many online businesses are required to add additional security measures to large... read more

25 Jun 19 @ 11:05

While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application usage is proliferating, and workloads are increasingly migrating to Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) like AWS and Azure, on-premises applications, storage, and private clouds persist. The... read more

25 Jun 19 @ 10:12

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published  an Opinion on the elements of strong customer authentication (SCA) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The Opinion is a response to... read more

25 Jun 19 @ 09:49

The P27 Nordic Payments Platform (owned by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB and Swedbank) have announced a partnership with  Mastercard to provide real-time payments across the Nordic... read more

24 Jun 19 @ 12:40

The first of the mandated PSD2 deadlines has been and gone and 41% of European banks did not comply with the PSD2 deadline, which required them to provide a testing... read more