Issuing & Acquiring

20 Jan 17 @ 10:27

Western Union has agreed to settle $586m after admitting that it violated US anti-money laundering laws by ignoring evidence that thousands of its agents were involved in sending illicit cash... read more

19 Jan 17 @ 10:53

PCM would like to announce the publication of the updated Payment Card Statistical Yearbooks 2016-17 (Statistics for Europe and Eurasia) – and its corresponding website paymentyearbooks.com. In this business, we know you need to... read more

19 Jan 17 @ 10:13

EBA CLEARING announced the kick-off of the testing phase for its pan-European instant payment infrastructure platform scheduled to go live in November 2017. 28 of the funding institutions from all over... read more

19 Jan 17 @ 09:42

Credit cards continued to gain share against all other forms of payment in the US in 2015 according to the The Nilson Report, after measuring 11 methods of consumer payments in the... read more

19 Jan 17 @ 09:29

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred deposit taking banks and all other financial institutions from the operation of any form of virtual currency. The warning by the Apex bank... read more

18 Jan 17 @ 10:52

With continued improvements in payments security through technologies such as P2PE and EMV, the PCI community has been effective at combating crime in a wide variety of financial institutions, retail... read more

18 Jan 17 @ 09:56

Earlier this month, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that Mastercard acquisition of VocaLink would face an in-depth investigation, unless the companies could address the CMA’s competition concerns over the... read more

17 Jan 17 @ 15:14

The amount of money laundered by foreign criminals is estimated to be as high as £100 billion a year and unlawful tax avoidance costs UK taxpayers as much as £2.7... read more

17 Jan 17 @ 09:46

Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale and UniCredit signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the development of a shared cross-border trade finance platform for small and... read more

17 Jan 17 @ 09:34

The FinTech sector is being shaped by shifting market conditions, new regulations, and changes in consumer demands and behaviors. For the past decade, FinTech companies have moved quickly, forcing incumbents to... read more

16 Jan 17 @ 17:14

“Silicon Valley is coming”.  That’s what JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wrote to shareholders in 2015.  Dimon had been to the Valley and seen money pouring in to innovative start-ups,... read more

16 Jan 17 @ 10:07

A quarter of all card transactions are now contactless payments, new figures from The UK Cards Association show. 325 million purchases were made using contactless debit and credit cards in... read more