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21 Jan 15 @ 09:38

The impact of theft on UK retailers has reached its highest level in a decade according to this year’s BRC Retail Crime Survey. The average value of each theft in-store... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:11

The deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa will significantly extend the reach of the South African operator’s services. The card... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:00

Diners Club International, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, and The Logic Group, announced a signed agreement that will grow Discover and... read more

20 Jan 15 @ 14:16

16 to 24 year old consumers in the UK have the greatest appetite for biometric security measures and the greatest need to use them in place of traditional authentication such... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 10:08

Starbucks has launched its mobile payment app in Germany and France to enable its customers to make payments using a mobile version of their Starbucks card. The app is the... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:54

PayPal has joined forces with Microsoft to bring its PayPal Here hardware card readers to Windows devices, as well as develop EMV-compliant readers. The collaboration is aimed at small and... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:20

It has emerged over the weekend that Google is leading talks to acquire Softcard, the troubled mobile payments company that is being eyed by a number of potential suitors, said people familiar... read more

16 Jan 15 @ 11:07

A lack of payment options are forcing customers to abandon their baskets and merchants to miss out on sales. Online retailers are dramatically losing out on sales by failing to address... read more

16 Jan 15 @ 10:55

In what has been a very short lived love affair, Google has stopped selling its Google Glasses product. Loved by few and lambasted by many the internet giant is shutting down... read more

15 Jan 15 @ 14:11

According to the KrebsOnSecurity blog, ATM skimming attacks have focused on innovative fraud devices made to attach to the outside of compromised ATMs via a black box attack. Security experts are... read more

15 Jan 15 @ 11:37

The UK’s Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), the company behind Direct Debit says UK records were broken in 2014, reaching new highs in levels of transactions, demonstrating automated payments remain... read more

15 Jan 15 @ 10:02

Big US banks are steering clear of an advanced security measure used in credit cards around the world, opting for a system that is more convenient for shoppers but may... read more