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Retailers losing out on £4.3 million each day as SCA rules block transactions

28 Apr 22 @ 17:38

Data from Barclaycard Payments, which processes £1 in every £3 spent on credit and debit cards in the UK, shows that many online businesses are still not fully compliant with... read more

Inside Conti: the largest organised cybercrime group that got hacked

28 Apr 22 @ 17:12

If you have been following the cybercrime landscape for the past year or so, you may have read about the Conti ransomware group – one of the largest organised crime... read more

Metal payment cards give financial institutions a competitive edge

28 Apr 22 @ 16:49

A new report based on an independent global survey from Edgar, Dunn & Company found a strong affinity towards physical and metal payment cards, especially with digital-native millennials. The majority... read more

UK could generate additional £2.6 billion economic output using real-time payments

27 Apr 22 @ 17:11

The Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) predicts that by 2026, £1.3 billion could be made in cost savings for British businesses and consumers through real-time payments – helping... read more

Fabio Panetta: Why we must reign in the wild West of crypto

27 Apr 22 @ 16:41

“170 years ago Americans pushed westward across the frontier to seek their fortune in the gold rush. Greed and lawlessness turned this promised land into the Wild West, where the... read more

Banking Circle acquires account-to-account payment provider SEPAexpress

27 Apr 22 @ 16:24

SEPAexpress, which provides white-labelled account-to-account (A2A) payments for Payments Service Providers (PSPs), merchants and corporates in Europe has been acquired by Banking Circle Group. Less than five years after bringing... read more

Digital wallets transaction value to grow 60% by 2026

26 Apr 22 @ 17:33

A new study has found the value of digital wallets transactions will exceed $12 trillion in 2026, from $7.5 trillion in 2022. To capitalise on this substantial growth, the research... read more

JCB completes exit from Russia but Mir stands strong

26 Apr 22 @ 17:16

First it was Visa and Mastercard, then American Express and Discover followed suit, noting that Discover and Diners Club International do not have any active partners in Belarus and Russia.... read more

Bank Heists 5.0 – From heist to hijack, dwell to destruction

25 Apr 22 @ 17:30

The Modern Bank Heists report, which annually takes the pulse of the financial industry’s top CISOs and security leaders to provide executives with a ground truth on the changing behaviour... read more

EU sets out stringent new laws to contain power of Big Tech

25 Apr 22 @ 17:02

EU lawmakers have set out a major set of new legislations designed to heavily curb the powers of US Big Tech companies, forcing them to police content online more aggressively... read more

One year on from enforcement – has PSD2 reduced fraud?

25 Apr 22 @ 13:08

It’s been a year since every merchant across France, Germany, Italy and Spain — the EEA’s largest digital commerce markets — started complying with PSD2, but has enforcement reduced fraud... read more

SHIFT report: A guide to the Middle East payments industry

22 Apr 22 @ 16:22

The MENA FinTech Association (MFTA), has released the first volume of the SHIFT report, a comprehensive guide that supports the FinTech community in navigating the MENA payment landscape. The release... 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