Issuing & Acquiring

31 Oct 17 @ 09:50

The global e-commerce market continues to grow rapidly, and is predicted to be worth $2.4 trillion by 2019. As a result, the market continues to attract not merely ever-greater levels... read more

30 Oct 17 @ 12:15

Mastercard says that it will open up access to its in house blockchain technology platform via an application programming interface (API) which will be made available to developers at banks... read more

30 Oct 17 @ 09:55

Almost half (49%) of global financial services organisations have experienced a data breach in the past, according to the 2017 Data Threat Report. The report also reveals 21% have been... read more

23 Oct 17 @ 11:16

Verizon recently released its annual Payment Security Report. And for retailers, the report highlighted significant areas for improvement in encrypting data, securing transmitted retail payment data, and authentication. This should serve as... read more

23 Oct 17 @ 11:05

eCurrency Mint Limited says that it has partnered with PayPro Indonesia to provide eCurrency’s digital fiat currency (DFC) solution in Indonesia. Through eCurrency’s solution, PayPro’s e-money product delivers a cryptographically protected, secure instrument... read more

19 Oct 17 @ 18:24

We live in digital times. Customers are increasingly shopping online and on mobile devices. In fact, the number of Europeans regularly using a mobile device — smartphone, tablet or wearable... read more

19 Oct 17 @ 18:00

A consortium of Spanish banking, energy and teleco heavyweights have established blockchain based national network dubbed Alastria. The non-profit “world’s first regulated national network based on blockchain”, will develop distributed... read more

19 Oct 17 @ 09:10

Bloomberg recently reported that the Fed was forced to fly a planeload of cash to Puerto Rico to help avert disaster, when Hurricane Maria knocked out power on the island, the residents realized they... read more

18 Oct 17 @ 13:00

In a new report, PSD2 and Europe’s Open Banking Mandate, we aim to analyse the implications of the revised Payment Services Directive, PSD2, for the European banking industry and Open Banking... read more

18 Oct 17 @ 09:39

After 2 moderate quarters, VC investment into InsurTech startups was strong in Q2’17, with $745.4 million invested across 60 deals. Despite quarterly fluctuation in deal size and volume, the overall... read more

17 Oct 17 @ 15:41

JPMorgan Chase is set to launch a new interbank payments platform powered by the Quorum Enterprise-ready distributed ledger and smart contract blockchain platform. With the participation of two other banks... read more

17 Oct 17 @ 13:52

Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s Minister of Communications has revealed that President Vladimir Putin has given the Go-Ahead for a new cryptocurrency dubbed CryptoRuble, reports CoinTelegraph, claiming local news sources. The Russian form of cryptocurrency won’t be... read more