Issuing & Acquiring

18 Aug 14 @ 15:39

US consultancy First Annapolis has highlighted how issuers are feeling heightened pressure to migrate card portfolios to EMV as the October 2015 liability shift deadline quickly approaches. After a spate... read more

14 Aug 14 @ 14:31

More than 575 million US EMV payment cards will be in issue by the end of next year, according to a statement issued jointly from Visa and MasterCard on Wednesday (13/08/2014). That... read more

04 Aug 14 @ 12:25

FICO has published its latest map of card fraud in Europe, showing that card fraud losses in 2013 for the 19 European countries studied reached €1.55 billion. This figure was... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 16:06

As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward in Article 58 of the upcoming Payment Services Directive (PSD2)... read more

21 Jul 14 @ 16:01

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is planning to launch an investigation into the UK retail banking sector in a move which could see high-street giants being broken up.... read more

17 Jul 14 @ 10:50

Visa Europe confirmed that its digital wallet service, V.me by Visa, will expand to Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Italy by the end of the year. Pilots will also launch... read more

26 Jun 14 @ 09:37

2014 Debit Issuer Study reveals increased usage, a renewed focus on fraud prevention and EMV issuance, and a resurgence of debit rewards linking merchant offers. Financial institutions weathered the Target... read more

18 Jun 14 @ 13:59

Card networks are taking aggressive action not to lag behind the expected replacement of plastic products with new digital payment methods. For example, Discover Financial Services has signed onto the... read more

16 Jun 14 @ 16:24

Spurred by major data breaches at Target and other stores, the US banking and retail sectors are turning to more secure microchip-based EMV payment cards, causing US shipments of these... read more

16 Jun 14 @ 16:16

The French domestic card scheme, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB), is planning to introduce biometric payment based on fingerprints before the end of 2014. CB is working with the National... read more

13 Jun 14 @ 10:59

While much of the debate around European card regulation and interchange focuses on Visa and MasterCard, how will three-party schemes fare under proposed legislation? The July 2013 publication of European... read more

11 Jun 14 @ 14:26

By the end of 2015, 70% of US credit cards and 41% of US debit cards will be EMV enabled, says Aite Group. In a new research report, EMV: Lessons... read more