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03 May 17 @ 09:45

Apple is once again rumoured to be building its own money-transfer service to take on the likes of Venmo. The company has recently held discussions with payments industry partners about introducing its... read more

28 Apr 17 @ 15:56

Since 2010, SecurityMetrics PANscan discovered over 1.5 billion unencrypted primary account numbers (PAN) on business networks. Storage of unencrypted payment card data increases your organization’s risk and liability in the... read more

28 Apr 17 @ 13:38

ATMIA has hit back at the cashless society  movement and published a new study on the role cash plays in financial inclusion. Entitled, “Access to Cash: the First Step toward... read more

28 Apr 17 @ 13:16

The FCA says that UK financial institutions have recorded nearly 3m complaints over their products or services in the last six months of 2016. The figures, published on Wednesday, provide a snapshot... read more

27 Apr 17 @ 10:21

A Danish banking collective, named Bokis, has become the first to offer a mobile payments product using the highly popular national debit card, Dankort. Bokis consists of 62 banks from the small... read more

27 Apr 17 @ 09:44

Connectivity is changing the world and the way we interact with one another. Last year, figures showed that the global population owned around 6 billion connected devices, approaching one for... read more

26 Apr 17 @ 16:34

Money has taken on many forms over millennia; our relationship with currency often alters along with it. Lately, a key theme has been technological change to a cashless society: notes... read more

26 Apr 17 @ 12:01

Australian merchants have reported that cash receivables plummeted by 46% between 2010 and 2016, new research from market analysts East & Partners has found. Should this trend continue, cash payments... read more

26 Apr 17 @ 11:53

Entrust Datacard announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new Participating Organization to work on payment data security worldwide. Entrust Datacard will work with the Council to... read more

25 Apr 17 @ 14:23

Six of the major Dutch banks – ABN Amro, ASN Bank, ING, Rabobank, Regiobank and SNS – say they will launch Payconiq, a mobile payments app this summer. The app,... read more

24 Apr 17 @ 14:09

A new UN study reveals that social network payments through Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled $2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments in 2016, representing a 20-fold increase in the past four... read more

21 Apr 17 @ 16:42

BBVA just completed the first real-life implementation of an international money transfer using Ripple’s new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The transaction, running on BBVA infrastructures with real money, successfully completed... read more