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How to improve user onboarding in the era of digital finance

28 Nov 22 @ 17:05

A new white paper from leading Open Banking platform Plaid explains why user onboarding needs to improve dramatically if digital finance is to reach its full potential. The paper also... read more

A good week for the payments industry crime fighters

24 Nov 22 @ 16:45

It has been a good week for the guardians of the payments industry. We are very often writing of the upward trends in fraud and the latest channels to be... read more

The current state of enterprise blockchain

17 Nov 22 @ 18:04

Enterprises use a permissioned blockchain — known as an enterprise blockchain — to speed up business processes, improve transparency, and reduce costs. The private nature of enterprise blockchains makes them... read more

Embedded payments – What does the future look like?

15 Nov 22 @ 16:25

As part of our ongoing quest to demystify the hype and find the truth in payments, we take a look at the latest buzz-word, “embedded payments” and ask what it... read more

Study reveals password usage still dominates financial services

07 Nov 22 @ 18:02

The FIDO Alliance published its second annual Online Authentication Barometer, which gathers insights into the state of online authentication in 10 countries across the globe. New to the Barometer this... read more

Interview: The trends accelerating biometric payment card adoption

07 Nov 22 @ 10:37

2022 has witnessed biometric payment card adoption reach new heights. Multiple recent launches in the Middle East highlight the technology’s global interest, but what external factors are accountable for this... read more

One in eight consumers have experienced BNPL fraud in UK

01 Nov 22 @ 14:17

New research shows that only a third of UK consumers trust Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services to protect their data having suffered BNPL fraud. The UK study, by Callsign,... read more

Nordic Payment Report 2022

31 Oct 22 @ 17:10

Nets, has published its Nordic Payment Report 2022, revealing a strong recovery for face-to-face payments, particularly in hospitality and transport sectors, as mobile payments gain ground at physical points of... read more

Banks challenged to accelerate personalisation and security in the hyper-connected era

24 Oct 22 @ 21:56

A new report claims that, as in 2021, banks are facing increasing change and consolidating their digital transformation in a pressurised macroeconomic environment. In 2022, however, the study highlights the... read more

PayPal makes big move in support of passkey

24 Oct 22 @ 20:02

PayPal says that it is introducing support for passkey, providing what it says will be an easier and more secure login method for PayPal accounts. Passkeys are an industry standard developed... read more

Has SCA made it too hard to pay by card?

17 Oct 22 @ 16:04

As implementation of the EU’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) moves from a “soft” to “hard” state – that is, with liability transferring to those merchants that don’t employ SCA –... read more

UK Fraud report: H1 2022 sees decline in fraud of 13%

13 Oct 22 @ 11:19

UK Finance has released its latest fraud report covering H1 2022. The report shows that while the end of the pandemic has seen a fall in overall fraud losses, some... 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