Issuing & Acquiring

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

20 May 16 @ 13:39

Worldpay is threatening to make the manual cash register obsolete with a new payment device. The payment processor claims that its all-in-one tablet-based till will completely change how small business... read more

20 May 16 @ 13:32

The PCI security standards council (PCI SSC) has published an update to its global data security standard. PCI DSS Version 3.2 replaces version 3.1 to address growing threats to customer... read more

19 May 16 @ 11:24

Consumer-facing technology brands have done much to reset customer expectations around speed, but also convenience, value and choice. Consumers can send and receive e-mail across the globe almost instantly. They... read more

18 May 16 @ 14:02

A Russian-speaking Skimer group forces ATMs to assist them in stealing users money. Discovered in 2009, Skimer was the first malicious program to target ATMs. Seven years later, cyber criminals... read more

18 May 16 @ 12:33

By 2020, more than 50% of all UK retail sales could be ecommerce and contactless, growing by more than 2.5 times from 18% currently. At least 30% of these will... read more

17 May 16 @ 13:15

The European Central Bank will set up a database to register incidents of cyber attack and cyber crime at commercial banks, aiming to create an early warning and analysis system... read more

17 May 16 @ 13:11

VocaLink, the British operator of the Faster Payments service, has announced a five-year deal with UnionPay International to enable UnionPay cardholders to access ATMs across Europe and the UK. Under... read more

17 May 16 @ 13:01

Sen. Dick Durbin has blasted the card network-dominated group that sets the standards for EMV cards, accusing it of mishandling the rollout of more secure credit and debit cards, lacking transparency and... read more