Fraud & Security

14 May 26 @ 13:44

Stolen UK payment card details are being sold on dark web marketplaces for around £9, according to research from NordVPN and threat exposure platform NordStellar. The finding underlines an uncomfortable... read more

11 May 26 @ 19:54

The global e-commerce payments market is no longer simply a story of digital adoption. It is becoming a test of operational control. The 2026 Global e-commerce Payments & Fraud Report,... read more

06 May 26 @ 16:46

FIS has joined forces with Anthropic to develop a Financial Crimes AI Agent, in a move that highlights how quickly agentic artificial intelligence is moving from experimental technology into the... read more

31 Mar 26 @ 19:08

The Payments Association has escalated pressure on ministers and regulators to confront what it describes as a structural failure at the heart of the UK’s fraud regime: the platforms where... read more

26 Mar 26 @ 19:03

Fraud in digital finance is no longer best understood as a series of isolated scams carried out by opportunistic criminals. It is increasingly operating as an industrialised system: fast, scalable... read more

24 Feb 26 @ 12:26

The next evolution of digital commerce may not be driven by consumers clicking ‘buy now’, but by AI acting on their behalf. According to dispute specialist Chargebacks911, that shift could... read more

20 Feb 26 @ 19:10

The UK’s payments watchdog has imposed a £3.78m penalty on Bank of Ireland UK after the lender failed to meet the regulatory deadline for implementing Confirmation of Payee (CoP), a... read more

28 Jan 26 @ 21:23

Open Banking has long been promoted as a safer, more controlled alternative to legacy payment rails. New evidence from Open Banking Limited’s latest financial crime update reinforces that claim —... read more

22 Jan 26 @ 17:05

Europe’s retail economy is undergoing a structural shift. E-commerce has moved from being a complementary sales channel to the primary growth engine for many merchants. Online sales now dominating strategic... read more

16 Jan 26 @ 13:37

As global scam losses climb beyond $400bn annually, payment fraud is evolving faster than the controls designed to stop it. Against this backdrop, Scamnetic is repositioning its patented IDeveryone technology... read more

13 Jan 26 @ 14:04

AU10TIX has issued a stark warning to the global payments and digital identity ecosystem: fraud is no longer episodic, reactive or human-led. According to its Signals for 2026 special edition,... read more

10 Dec 25 @ 17:21

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure.” As a quick refresher, the PVDC was set up in November 2024 to... read more