Issuing & Acquiring

11 Sep 18 @ 14:12

Ripple Labs says it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 and XRP II, according to a press release published today. As per that statement, the details of the settlement... read more

10 Sep 18 @ 17:00

Two buzzwords often heard in identity today are self-sovereign identity and distributed identity. The reason for considering new models for identity is, among other things, to avoid a single point... read more

07 Sep 18 @ 16:15

Artificial intelligence will face a backlash from the public unless researchers and companies make a much greater effort to engage society in its development, one of Britain’s leading scientists has... read more

07 Sep 18 @ 16:07

The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) has announce the publication of the Open Banking Standards, version 3. This update builds significantly on the version of the Standards that launched in... read more

05 Sep 18 @ 14:33

On 1 August 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Consultation Paper 18/21 on ‘General Standards and Communication Rules for the Payment Services and E-Money Sectors’. The consultation closes on... read more

05 Sep 18 @ 14:26

Kaspersky Lab researchers have published a report on botnet activity in the first half of 2018, analysing more than 150 malware families and their modifications circulating through 600,000 botnets around... read more

04 Sep 18 @ 17:03

In the last months it has been reported that 7,339 (and counting) individual e-commerce sites have been infested with the MagentoCore card skimmer malware in the last six months, making... read more

04 Sep 18 @ 14:00

The major payments networks set the path for the US payments industry to begin the shift to EMV chip cards in 2011. One of the leading factors was that chip... read more

04 Sep 18 @ 12:53

For most consumers, the worst thing about a shopping trip is the queues. Spotting a queue at POS means consumers may well decide to go elsewhere. Waiting to pay creates... read more

03 Sep 18 @ 13:03

China is further tightening its clampdown on cryptocurrency, nearly a year after the government imposed a wide-ranging ban on local exchanges and ICO’s fundraising for digital currencies. Financial officials in an eastern... read more

03 Sep 18 @ 12:16

Alternative payments methods such as mobile and digital wallets are steadily displacing traditional payment methods such as cards, bank transfers and cash/cheques in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) e-commerce market. GlobalData forecasts... read more

31 Aug 18 @ 15:11

Deploying AI in the payments sector – With the global volume of online payments set to increase by almost 11% a year between 2015 and 2020 (and by as much... read more