Issuing & Acquiring

08 Nov 16 @ 10:38

From modernising payment infrastructure and enhancing security, to driving efficiencies and innovation. Whatever the question, Blockchain seems to be the answer nowadays. Announcements from the last month alone are fairly... read more

07 Nov 16 @ 11:53

One in five card payments are now made via contactless, new figures show from the UK Card Expenditure Statistics. Contactless cards were used for 21% of card payments in August... read more

07 Nov 16 @ 11:33

US fraud levels are rising across all payment card products, according to First Annapolis’ semi-annual survey of major card issuers, but changes in fraud write-offs vary by product. Survey results1... read more

04 Nov 16 @ 13:35

A new Android malware Trojan has surfaced and is ripping through the entire banking sector in the US and Europe by appearing as a Flash Player App. The Android malware... read more

04 Nov 16 @ 11:46

Most big high street banks are beginning to use biometric authentication to give customers a more convenient way to check their account balance or make payments. However, one big question... read more

03 Nov 16 @ 14:22

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2 regulation) is set to bring payments in Europe to the next stage of development; it is a data and technology-driven Directive that aims to... read more

03 Nov 16 @ 14:00

Demand for different types of biometric authentication has risen significantly since 2014, with iris scanning moving ahead of fingerprint technology to the top of the 2016 Future Password Index (FPI).... read more

02 Nov 16 @ 11:41

Half of banking customers across the globe are using the products or services of at least one FinTech firm[1], according to the first World FinTech Report (WFTR) from Capgemini and... read more

01 Nov 16 @ 15:29

SBI Ripple Asia, a joint venture between distributed ledger tech provider Ripple and SBI Holdings, announced in August that a Japanese consortium of 15 banks in a new network will... read more

01 Nov 16 @ 14:45

Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts shows that the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Asia-Pacific were the fastest growing regions for payment cards in 2015, with card numbers up... read more

01 Nov 16 @ 14:32

There is a very good new report on financial services for millenials from Telstra Global Enterprise Services titled Millennials, Mobiles and Money – The Forces Reinventing Financial Services which makes... read more

31 Oct 16 @ 10:37

The world seems to have got itself into a great big, tearing hurry. Consumers can send and receive e-mail across the globe in near-real-time. They can download a movie to... read more