Issuing & Acquiring

17 Oct 17 @ 13:35

The governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), Zhou Xiaochuan has been recorded in the press as asking for his country to move open its financial sector. Zhou noted... read more

17 Oct 17 @ 12:33

Globally, the FinTech market made a strong rebound in Q2’17, with total investment more than doubling on a quarter-over-quarter basis to more than $8.4 billion. Large increases in private equity... read more

16 Oct 17 @ 11:13

The basic movement of money from A to B is changing. It’s becoming faster, embedded and more open ecosystem driven. Whereas payments used to be cleared and settled in days,... read more

16 Oct 17 @ 09:00

In order to help American online businesses expand their international customer base using locally preferred cross-border e-commerce and e-payment methods, PPRO Group, is expanding its global footprint. The company today announces... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 12:40

The race against time has already begun: the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), defined in 2015 to strengthen consumer protection at European level, will come into effect as early... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 11:00

Ripple, one of the biggest blockchain companies, has announced it has $15bn of cryptocurrency reserves that it may use to acquire or partner with rivals, as it seeks to dominate... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 10:00

Over the last decade, payment acquirers have made leaps and bounds in FinTech innovation — for instance, major players like PayPal, Intuit, Stripe, and Square have completely reinvented the acceptance... read more

10 Oct 17 @ 13:07

Almost $60 million has been stolen from Far Eastern International Bank in Taiwan using a Swift malware attack last week, with funds being routed to accounts in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and the... read more

10 Oct 17 @ 12:34

How often have you got to the end of a project and wished you’d known something at the start? This is no bad thing because learning from one’s mistakes is... read more

09 Oct 17 @ 16:50

As the European Union prepares to usher in new data-sharing rules for banks and financial institutions, antitrust authorities are probing whether the banking industry is preventing rival FinTech services from... read more

09 Oct 17 @ 12:13

EBA CLEARING says that banks from nine countries are preparing to join RT1, the Company’s pan-European infrastructure solution for instant payments in euro, on its go-live date in November 2017.... read more

09 Oct 17 @ 11:53

Hackers have managed to install code on the sites that uses visitors’ computers to “mine” the crypto-currencies. School, charities and file-sharing websites have been caught out by scammers who are... read more