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Annual Future of Fraud Forecast predicts five key threats

24 Jan 22 @ 12:13

Experian has released its annual Future of Fraud Forecast, which reveals five fraud threats for the new year. With consumers continuing to take a digital-first approach to everything from shopping,... read more

UK failing in fight against economic crime report reveals

24 Jan 22 @ 10:26

Spotlight on Corruption, an anti-graft charity, says economic crime costs the UK hundreds of times more than the government spends fighting it each year. Spotlight on Corruption, says in its... read more

Stolen credit card darknet marketplace UniCC closes its browser

17 Jan 22 @ 12:11

The administrators of the largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, UniCC, renowned or indeed infamous for stolen credit cards, are retiring after making an estimated $358 million (£260 million). The... read more

2021 a record year for crime linked cryptocurrency wallets

17 Jan 22 @ 11:36

2021 has gone on record as being the year criminals used a record amount of cryptocurrency for illicit purposes, but the overall growth of digital asset markets outstripped the rise... read more

New studies detail chargeback issue – solutions fail to convince

10 Jan 22 @ 11:19

Two new studies have revealed the huge and growing problem of chargeback, or disputed transactions, in the payments business – yet neither offers a convincing methodology for how to fix... read more

Infographic: 2022 top trends in payments

07 Jan 22 @ 16:12

In this post we look at the top payment trends for 2022 – 2021 was a year of transition for the payments industry as we moved towards Payments 4.X −... read more

The long road to SCA: Key learnings from Europe

07 Jan 22 @ 11:50

PSD2 introduced the need for SCA, but implementation has been a long journey and several deadline extensions reflect the low levels of market readiness and the disruptions caused by COVID-19.... read more

Cyber security and payments – Do we have a code red

06 Jan 22 @ 16:50

Traditional approaches to cyber security in payments aren’t working – and the recent huge rise in hacks and fraud proves it. James Wood says it’s time for a radical shift in... read more

As Christmas comes, it’s clear: we need better tools to fight massive payments fraud

17 Dec 21 @ 12:04

Fraud is going off the scale. PCM outlines how well current solutions are working, and what might work better. Even before the holidays have begun, the signs are not good:... read more

The regulatory year in review – and what’s next in 2022…

16 Dec 21 @ 15:43

As payments go digital and new methods such as Account to Account (A2A), crypto and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) rocket in popularity, regulators are struggling to keep up with... read more

AML warnings raised at a third of UK EMIs as ‘major gateway’ for illicit funds

15 Dec 21 @ 10:04

Anti Money Laundering (AML) red flags have been indicated at more than a third of UK-licensed electronic money institutions (EMIs), according to Transparency International UK. Transparency International UK warned in... read more

The threat that quantum computing poses for FinTech companies

06 Dec 21 @ 16:01

With claims circulating that not one but two quantum computers have already been developed which are 10 million times faster than the most powerful conventional supercomputers and IBM recently announcing... 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