Issuing & Acquiring

16 Nov 17 @ 16:42

American Express has announced the introduction of blockchain-enabled, cross-border B2B  payments. The American Express FX International Payments (FXIP) business is working with Ripple to make blockchain payments commercially available, reducing... read more

15 Nov 17 @ 12:47

A growing middle class in China with a high propensity to shop for foreign brands is helping to drive up spending on cross-border e-commerce goods, according to eMarketer’s forecast. Total... read more

14 Nov 17 @ 14:23

The Clearing House (TCH) has launched RTP, its real-time payments system, the first new core payments infrastructure in the US in more than 40 years. The new RTP system was... read more

14 Nov 17 @ 10:23

In recent months, the Bitcoin community has been in a bitter fight that escalated to an all-out war over the seemingly natural question of how to allow more transactions through the... read more

10 Nov 17 @ 16:09

A new study, 2017 State of Authentication, examines how businesses are implementing authentication, their motivations for choosing authentication technologies and approaches, and how the evolving threat environment has given rise to new,... read more

10 Nov 17 @ 11:33

According to a new study, Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2022, card issuers in Europe are continuing to change the scheme of the cards they issue – particularly... read more

09 Nov 17 @ 16:36

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the enterprise and its impact on how organizations design and build their public key infrastructure (PKI) is a key theme. Specifically,... read more

09 Nov 17 @ 16:06

Regulation, compliance and legacy systems have, for so long, been the stumbling blocks for financial institutions to capitalise on the new digital age where there are few barriers to international... read more

08 Nov 17 @ 09:22

Ultra Electronics’ CORVID PayGate platform has been accredited by the Faster Payments Scheme Limited (FPSL) as technically compatible with the Faster Payments Central Infrastructure (FPS CI). This assures CORVID’s ability... read more

01 Nov 17 @ 13:39

Powered payment cards become powered when they take on interactive form factors such as biometric sensors and Dynamic Code Verification (DCV). In total, 213 million powered payment cards are forecasted to... read more

01 Nov 17 @ 09:18

While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more

31 Oct 17 @ 14:50

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware, CryptoShuffler Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting... read more