Issuing & Acquiring

12 Jan 17 @ 15:02

Discover Financial Services (DFS) and PayPal have signed a tokenisation and digital payments agreement making PayPal more widely available to Discover cardmembers, acquirers and merchants. The agreement provides PayPal with... read more

12 Jan 17 @ 10:31

With the goal to increase the value and usability of loyalty points, Verifone and FIS are collaborating to enable consumers to pay with loyalty points linked to their credit or debit cards... read more

12 Jan 17 @ 10:24

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has announced the official launch of its commercial banking operations in Europe with Rakuten Europe Bank, headquartered in Luxembourg. Rakuten Europe Bank will offer banking services... read more

11 Jan 17 @ 14:32

Millennials are set to outnumber baby boomers in the workplace this year for the first time. With a millennial workforce comes a demand for much more than a pay cheque.... read more

10 Jan 17 @ 13:36

According to Deloitte, the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices offering biometric security will top 1 billion for the first time in early 2017. Each sensor will be used, on average,... read more

10 Jan 17 @ 13:25

6.22 billion payments transactions worth a total of £4.8 trillion were processed by Bacs Payment Schemes (Bacs) in yet another record breaking year for the company behind Direct Debit in... read more

09 Jan 17 @ 12:58

A federal appeals court has rejected the US government’s AmEx antitrust case request that it reconsider its decision allowing American Express to stop merchants from encouraging customers to use rival cards... read more

09 Jan 17 @ 12:45

Privacy and cyber security will dominate the corporate agenda next year. The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is less than 18 months away – and privacy has suddenly made... read more

09 Jan 17 @ 09:41

The Bitcoin price plummeted as much as 23% Thursday afternoon after nearing an all-time high just weeks before, the cryptocurrency extended Friday’s tumble amid concern China will tighten rules on the digital... read more

08 Jan 17 @ 15:39

Walmart and Visa have ended an acrimonious and public battle over interchange fees that saw the Walmart refuse to accept Visa credit cards in its northern Ontario and Manitoba stores.... read more

08 Jan 17 @ 12:19

Professor Richard Benham, chairman of the National Cyber Management Centre, has given a severe warning: “A major bank will fail as a result of a cyber attack in 2017 leading to a... read more

05 Jan 17 @ 14:54

A year has passed since the US EMV fraud liability shift went into effect in the US. Adoption among both issuers and merchants is still underway, but as migration on... read more