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Visa upgrades Verified by Visa technology simplifying e-commerce

30 May 17 @ 11:21

Visa announced enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account.... read more

Canadian trial finds blockchain not ready for interbank payment system

30 May 17 @ 10:53

Just a week after the R3 group took a record funding round, the Bank of Canada has said distributed ledger technology, a new approach for processing transactions that is being... read more

UK payments market: Contactless cards set to overtake cash in 2018

25 May 17 @ 10:26

Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report.... read more

R3 CEV blockchain consortium raises $107 million from members

24 May 17 @ 17:04

Financial and technology companies led by Bank of America,SBI Holdings, HSBC, Intel and Temasek Holdings have invested $107 million in R3 CEV which runs a big bank consortium seeking to develop... read more

BBVA commercialises Open Banking APIs ahead of PSD2

24 May 17 @ 09:57

Spanish bank BBVA says it is open for business with its Open Banking programme and is making eight of its APIs commercially available for the first time ahead of the new PSD2... read more

TransferWise to offer cost effective cross-border bank accounts

23 May 17 @ 12:57

TransferWise has extended its offering by launching a new service that takes it into the realms of looking more like a bank. For the first time, TransferWise will hold money on deposit for its... read more

Spending tops $20 trillion on global card networks in 2016 – Infographic

19 May 17 @ 12:21

Global card purchase volume for goods and services, which excludes cash advances on credit cards and cash withdrawals on debit cards across the global card networks, grew by 5.8% to... read more

70% of financial cards have chip – global outlook buoyant

19 May 17 @ 12:11

Adoption of more expensive chip cards continues to drive global card growth with 70% of all financial cards now having a chip, according to the International Card Manufacturers Association’s (ICMA) release... read more

Euro Banking Association paper analyses cryptotechnologies in international payments

19 May 17 @ 11:22

The Euro Banking Association has issued a new information paper looking into potential benefits and use cases of cryptotechnologies in the context of international payments and more specifically correspondent banking practices.... read more

US merchants paid $88.39 billion in card fees in 2016

18 May 17 @ 10:24

Credit, debit, and prepaid general purpose and private label cards issued in the United States generated $5.936 trillion in payments for goods and services in 2016. Card fees, which include... read more

Fight over EBA’s recommendation on Screen Scraping hots up as banks up the ante

17 May 17 @ 12:55

Just days after a coalition of 56 FinTech vendors lobbied the European Banking Authority in a strongly worded petition regarding the practice of Screen Scraping, The European Banking Federation (EBF) is asking the... read more

STS launches PayOp – a new Terminal Management Systems

17 May 17 @ 09:00

STS has launchesd PayOp, its next generation payments operational management system. PayOp will support traditional terminal management functions alongside new smart features such as analytics and operational insight. Critically, PayOp is... 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