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European banking heavyweights set to collaborate on blockchain

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

Seven critical changes to payments industry as FinTech matures

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

Open data – competition needs to work for both FinTechs and Banks

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

One in four UK card payments now contactless payments

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

Discover and PayPal partner on tokenisation and digital payments

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

Consumers can now pay with Loyalty Points at retail POS

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

Rakuten launches European bank: Rakuten Europe Bank

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

Cyber security: top tips for the mobile enterprise in 2017

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

Prints charming: biometric security reaches the billions

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

Bacs breaks more records in 2016 – £5 trillion in 2016

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

US government loses legal challenge to overturn AmEx antitrust case

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

2017 the year of creative cyber criminality – ten cyber security trends

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

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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