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Android cyberattacks on 34 European banks

24 Jul 14 @ 15:44

The ways your online banking accounts are protected might be full of holes. Banks have been trying to prevent crooks from accessing your online accounts for ages. Passwords, PINs, coordinate... read more

Hackers attack on European Central Bank

24 Jul 14 @ 15:25

It seems that no organisation, large or small is safe. The European Central Bank (ECB) has been hacked, with attackers stealing email addresses and contact data from the organisation’s public... read more

Apple mobile wallet

24 Jul 14 @ 14:57

In a further round of speculation and rumour, Apple’s talks with companies in the payment industry have been heating up in recent months regarding the launch of a mobile wallet,... read more

PSD2: A ‘bull by the horns’ approach to open access

23 Jul 14 @ 16:06

As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward in Article 58 of the upcoming Payment Services Directive (PSD2)... read more

TSYS Q2 revenues upbeat

23 Jul 14 @ 13:01

TSYS announced its revenues for Q2 2014 increased by 30.4%, while its adjusted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations were $0.45, an increase of 19.8%. According to a company press... read more

Daily mobile transactions rise to $71m in Kenya

23 Jul 14 @ 10:35

Kenyans are transacting Sh6.2 billion ($70.49m) daily through mobile phones, Central Bank of Kenya has said. This is a rise from an average of Sh5.2 billion last year, underlining growing... read more

Amazon Wallet

23 Jul 14 @ 10:20

Amazon has quietly released a new Android and Fire Phone app, dubbed Amazon Wallet, which lets users scan cards with their phone and save them in the Amazon cloud, so... read more

UK’s Payments Council in merger talks with British Bankers Association

22 Jul 14 @ 16:12

The UK banking industry’s main lobbying group, the British Bankers Association, is considering a proposal to merge with at least two of its peers amid pressure from leading members to... read more

Westpac trials HCE digital wallet technology

22 Jul 14 @ 15:22

Westpac is trialling Host Card Emulation  mobile payments (HCE digital wallet), the first bank in New Zealand to actively do so and one of only a handful of banks globally... read more

Global Mobile Payments Index Q2 2014: UK Ahead of Rest of World

22 Jul 14 @ 15:09

Adyen announced findings from its latest global Mobile Payments Index covering the period of April through June 2014.  During this period, on average mobile web payments accounted for almost 22%... read more

Visa Europe to use biometrics for payment authentication

22 Jul 14 @ 14:06

In a recent blog post, Jonathan Vaux, director of new payment propositions at Visa Europe  attributes the increase in the popularity of card-on-file payment to the growing use of biometrics for payment authentication. Vaux... read more

Facebook gets busy in payments

21 Jul 14 @ 16:05

Social network giant Facebook is testing a “buy” button which would enable users to purchase products featured on advertisements or page posts on the social network. Users can pay with... 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