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Nets agrees $5.3 billion take over amid fears of M&A market bubble

27 Sep 17 @ 10:48

Nets has agreed a 33.1 billion Danish crown ($5.3 billion) bid from US firm Hellman & Friedman, marking what could be one of the largest European private equity takeovers in... read more

Why cryptocurrencies are years away from replacing Fiat currencies

26 Sep 17 @ 16:57

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the underlying Blockchain technology was invented/created over eight years ago as an alternative means of payment through the mining of digital currency (Bitcoin) by solving cryptic... read more

CMBC launch first payment card featuring dynamic CVV2 in China

22 Sep 17 @ 09:06

OT-Morpho says that Chinese bank CMBC’s new Visa Signature credit card is the first one in China to feature MOTION CODE dynamic CVV2, a technology developed to provide a higher... read more

Money laundering: the fifth largest economy in the world at 3% of global GDP

21 Sep 17 @ 10:31

Leading defence and security organisation, BAE Systems has set out six criminal types responsible for money laundering around the world, to help global businesses understand the motivations and modus operandi... read more

Ethereum rolls out its first “hard fork” Metropolis

21 Sep 17 @ 09:59

Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, like Bitcoin a few weeks ago, has rolled out the first stage of its Metropolis hard fork proposal this week. Coin Telegraph... read more

Banking and financial services: New technology solves GDPR

18 Sep 17 @ 14:50

Data privacy is driving the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the UK, and yet it’s widely felt that banks and other financial services institutions have run out of... read more

Webinar: PSD2 and Europe’s Open Banking Mandate – Challenges for Banks and FinTechs

15 Sep 17 @ 09:33

The adoption of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is formalising the relationship between Banks and FinTechs by establishing Open Banking, providing open access to customer account data and the... read more

What EMV payment tokenization 2.0 means for the payments industry

15 Sep 17 @ 09:14

Technical body EMVCo launched version two of its EMV Payment Tokenisation Specification – Technical Framework in September. The market has evolved rapidly since v1.0 was launched in 2014 to address... read more

Report: Global variances in ATM usage

14 Sep 17 @ 15:47

In a new report based on the usage of ATM’s in three countries, US, Australia and UK it finds that ATMs remain popular globally, with 82% of respondents reporting that... read more

The hidden history of cyber-crime forums which monetise card data

14 Sep 17 @ 09:48

The notorious dark web marketplaces Alphabay and Hansa, designed for criminals who specialised in monetising lists or “dumps” of credit card data, were shut down in July following “landmark” action by... read more

PSR: New Payment System Operator formed

13 Sep 17 @ 12:21

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and Bank of England (BoE) have announced that the Payment System Operator Delivery Group (PSODG) has completed the necessary steps to deliver against the mandate... read more

Beyond CX – why EX is the new frontier

13 Sep 17 @ 11:20

Technology drove the first client experience (CX) revolution when advances in computer processing power allowed the early pioneers to develop data driven marketing policies. Now we believe emotional experience (EX)... read more

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UK fraud losses reach four-year high

16 Jun 26 @ 18:17

Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more

Visa and Mastercard move to end two-decade swipe fee battle

11 Jun 26 @ 16:00

A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more

Visa announces €500 Million European Investment Signals Strategic Response to Payments Sovereignty Push

31 May 26 @ 12:59

The debate around European payments sovereignty has intensified significantly over the past two years. Policymakers, regulators and financial institutions acros... more