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Apple Pay early adoption stats

19 Dec 14 @ 15:40

ITG Research has released  figures which show that iPhone users, via Apple Pay, were responsible for 1% of digital payment dollars spent in the month of November. The ITG Mobile Payments report, which... read more

Consumers will switch banks to access mobile payments

19 Dec 14 @ 12:05

21 million British consumers say they will switch banks to access mobile payments, as anticipation for new ways to pay builds, according to new research from Zapp. 44% of consumers plan... read more

Do we need a new EU network for EU payments interoperability?

19 Dec 14 @ 11:29

Suddenly the key EU’s stakeholders (ECB/EC) are talking again about technical payments interoperability and new payments networks.  Many may ask why, for they have struggled over 10 years to fully... read more

Banks still top for consumer trust

19 Dec 14 @ 09:03

Consumers trust banks far more than they do companies like Google, Apple and Amazon to protect their card details and personal financial information, according to research by Bizrate Insights. Bizrate... read more

Card fraud credit cards using quantum physics?

18 Dec 14 @ 12:41

Dutch researchers claim to have enabled the power of quantum mechanics in a way that could be used to make card fraud a thing of the past. In a paper posted... read more

EU agrees caps on debit and credit card interchange fees

18 Dec 14 @ 11:33

Interchange fees to process debit and credit card transactions are to be capped under an EU law that attempts to wrap-up a protracted battle with payment groups such as Visa... read more

MBNA launch digital wallet with MasterPass

17 Dec 14 @ 14:59

MBNA has, in partnership with MasterCard, launched a trial of a digital wallet. Once the trial is complete in early 2015, the MBNA Wallet could be quickly rolled out to... read more

Global ATM market expected to hit $22 billion in 2020

17 Dec 14 @ 14:45

A new report by Allied Market Research predicts that the global ATM market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.6% between 2014 and 2020, to a total of... read more

Cyber crime to drastically increase this Christmas

17 Dec 14 @ 14:19

Christmas 2014 looks set to have a large increase in cyber crime with the UK shopper set to spend a record £374.3 million over the festive period with one in... read more

Samsung to launch Apple Pay rival

17 Dec 14 @ 08:47

Samsung is said to be discussing a deal with a payments start-up that would help the smartphone maker introduce a mobile payments system in 2015 to rival Apple Pay, multiple sources report.... read more

Microsoft to accept bitcoin payments

16 Dec 14 @ 11:21

In a blog post on December 11 from Microsoft, the software giant quietly announced that its customers can now use bitcoin to purchase certain products through third party payment processor BitPay,... read more

Barclaycard deploys contactless gloves

16 Dec 14 @ 11:13

Barclaycard is to trial gloves that allow people to pay for their shopping via contactless, following demand for a wearable payment item that makes paying quicker and easier when laden... read more

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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

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... 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