Issuing & Acquiring

14 Aug 18 @ 13:34

Cifas, the UK fraud prevention service, has released new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen for the first time since 2014. Figures show a 5% drop in the first six... read more

13 Aug 18 @ 14:11

Stripe, the mobile payments provider and disruptor, is set to launch Stripe Issuing, a platform for creating, distributing, and managing physical and virtual cards via APIs. According to the firm, this... read more

07 Aug 18 @ 14:52

Microsoft has announced in a blog that Microsoft Pay is now integrated with Mastercard’s Masterpass service, allowing you to connect your accounts to streamline online payments. In bringing the two together,... read more

07 Aug 18 @ 12:53

US mega merchant Kroger Co. is considering expanding a ban on Visa credit cards imposed by one of its subsidiaries, in the latest signal that retailers are preparing a fresh battle over... read more

06 Aug 18 @ 13:22

Refrigerators, cars, watches, rings — what do all of these items have in common? They are all IoT products that are capable of connecting to the internet and completing transactions... read more

06 Aug 18 @ 13:08

Markets across Europe have made significant gains in the fight against card fraud, specifically in France and the UK, which achieved 6% and 8% reductions. Despite this, losses across the... read more

03 Aug 18 @ 10:58

A new study has found that blockchain deployments will enable banks to realise savings on cross-border settlement transactions of more than $27 billion by the end of 2030, reducing costs by... read more

02 Aug 18 @ 14:04

The news today is full of stories about financial damage caused by the dark web, cyber crime and hacker attacks against organisations, or about hundreds of thousands of user accounts... read more

01 Aug 18 @ 14:09

The UK’s Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) has launched an investigation into card acquiring services and whether Britain’s big banks and payments specialists such as Worldpay and Wirecard have taken advantage... read more

01 Aug 18 @ 08:53

In June 2018, Indian police in Mumbai, the countries financial capital, broke the back of a card fraud and cloning racket that involved waiters at bars and restaurants across the city... read more

31 Jul 18 @ 13:41

Mastercard recently won a patent to protect a method that would manage “fractional reserves of blockchain currency”, meaning consumers might one day be able to charge their purchases on their credit... read more

31 Jul 18 @ 09:01

BANCOMAT has launched its new digital payment service with the BANCOMAT Pay brand. Thanks to an agreement with SIA, BANCOMAT Pay will integrate the Jiffy service, allowing PagoBANCOMAT cardholders to... read more