Issuing & Acquiring

09 Jun 16 @ 13:59

A study among UK companies reveals that many of them are building a reserve in various crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, in order to pay off criminals in case of cyber... read more

08 Jun 16 @ 11:01

Token, a new payment network and API ecosystem enabling banks to quickly transform the PSD2 compliance threat into a revenue generating opportunity, has launched. Based on proprietary and patent-pending ‘programmable... read more

08 Jun 16 @ 10:27

ACI Worldwide has announced a collaboration opening up access to the Faster Payments Scheme in the UK for a significant number of financial institutions, including challenger banks and payment service providers... read more

07 Jun 16 @ 11:27

SIA announced a partnership with Raphaels Bank to develop and launch payment solutions in SEPA . As part of the agreement, Raphaels and SIA will offer SEPA payments services to clients through... read more

03 Jun 16 @ 09:57

Visa Inc. announced that the European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Visa Europe by Visa Inc. Visa has now received all regulatory approvals required for the acquisition.  The... read more

01 Jun 16 @ 11:35

There has been significant growth in the acceptance of credit cards and contactless card payments by small and medium enterprises (SMEs), new research from East & Partners Europe shows. Since... read more

27 May 16 @ 15:49

Several themes from 2015 will continue trending this year. Mobile payments will keep being one of them. Large players like Apple and Samsung have expanded their geographical presence with their... read more

27 May 16 @ 13:26

Investigators are examining possible computer breaches at as many as 12 banks linked to Swift’s global payments network that have irregularities similar to those in the theft of $81 million... read more

25 May 16 @ 15:30

Industry experts predict that debit cards are on track to become king in 2021 when they will take over from cash to become the UK’s most frequently used payment method,... read more

25 May 16 @ 09:40

Nets, the household name in Scandinavian payment processing, is on-boarding Nordic issuer portfolio’s in credit cards and sales finance onto WAY4, the e-payment processing framework developed by OpenWay. Card portfolios... read more

23 May 16 @ 13:10

Half of the US adult population now uses mobile banking on smartphones and tablets, which is 29 million more than last year. This dramatic shift in consumers’ channel preferences puts pressure... read more

23 May 16 @ 11:32

SWIFT has announced the availability of a new paper investigating how Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) could be used in financial services. Published in collaboration with Accenture, the paper is based on... read more