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ACCC clears Australian banks of colluding to block bitcoin

15 Feb 16 @ 18:19

Following on from the initial investigation in September 2015, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has cleared banks of any wrongdoing in its inquiry into the withdrawal of banking services... read more

World Class Payments: How UK payment habits compare internationally

15 Feb 16 @ 12:09

Payments UK, the trade association for the payments industry, has published a second report in its World Class Payments series, titled: ‘How consumers around the world make payments’. The report... read more

€1 billion revenue from mobile wallets in Europe from 2021

15 Feb 16 @ 11:49

Mobile wallet transactions number in the European Union will experience a CAGR of 61.8% over 2016-2021, ensuring the revenue for the payments industry will pass the €1 billion bar by... read more

LG delays launch of LG Pay

15 Feb 16 @ 09:07

LG Electronics has announced it will delay plan to launch the LG Pay mobile payments system at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), The Korea Times reports, citing an unnamed company... read more

Amex enables G&D for HCE cloud payment services

12 Feb 16 @ 12:54

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announce that its Convego CloudPay solution has achieved Amex Enabled accreditation for cloud payment services. The Amex Enabled accreditation covers core services, including digital credential management, payment... read more

Vodafone teams with PayPal to expand contactless mobile wallet payments

11 Feb 16 @ 17:56

Vodafone has has announced a strategic partnership with PayPal to expand contactless payments across its mobile wallet.

UK retailers losing millions due to check-out misery

11 Feb 16 @ 17:41

UK retailers are missing out on millions of pounds in lost sales by not listening to staff who’ve spotted a vital need to improve customer service at the check-out.

Worldpay moves into Canada

11 Feb 16 @ 14:42

Toronto-based Rakuten Kobo has selected Worldpay to manage its online payment processing and acquiring in Canada.

Technology companies dominate best global brands list

10 Feb 16 @ 11:30

For the third year in a row, Apple and Google claimed the top positions in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report. Technology brands represented more than a third of the table’s... read more

Cybercrime attacks increase with Metel, GCMAN and Carbanak 2.0

10 Feb 16 @ 09:30

In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cybercrime...

UK banks could lose 45% of their customers to alternative financial institutions

10 Feb 16 @ 08:53

A new study by Personetics has revealed that nearly half (45%) of...

UK government pushing open banking API framework

10 Feb 16 @ 08:00

UK Banks should share their customer data to help consumers compare banking...

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more

Global Banks set ground rules for Agentic Commerce as Fraud and Liability risks rise

27 Sep 26 @ 18:53

Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace exi... more