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Genesis Market: Over 18,000 new stolen identities added each month

18 May 21 @ 15:16

While many underground markets for stolen credentials operate from the anonymity of the dark web, Genesis Market is accessible from the open web. Access to the illegal marketplace is closely guarded... read more

CBDC: How seriously should we take the Dollar Vs Yuan supremacy story

18 May 21 @ 12:41

Recently, several commentators have identified a potential Chinese central bank digital currency as a serious economic and national security threat to the United States and chastised the US government for... read more

Prepaid Financial Services in regulatory hot water…again

18 May 21 @ 11:46

Prepaid Financial Services is in the regulators sights again just two months after being named and fined for a cartel involving Mastercard, Allpay, Sulion and Cashplus. Shares in PFS’s Australian... read more

Interview with Horst Forster, Research Director At Payments Cards & Mobile

17 May 21 @ 16:14

Horst Forster is a European payments expert with decades of experience in payments consulting and financial technology research. He runs PCM’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks, as well as working on... read more

European payments in 2021: Cards remain No. 1 for consumers

17 May 21 @ 16:04

Amid rising hype about mobile wallets, P2P FinTech challengers and QR-code payments, this year’s Digital and Card Payments Yearbooks show a card segment in robust health, with business growing strongly.... read more

Payment fraud fears grow – 65% of consumers more concerned about fraud

17 May 21 @ 09:58

As the pandemic drove consumers online en masse to make purchases, consumer anxiety around fraud saw a considerable spike. For the 2021 Fraud Report, Marqeta surveyed 2,000 consumers across the... read more

Diem drops Swiss license and heads to US for stablecoin trial

14 May 21 @ 10:34

Facebooks cryptocurrency Diem has been forced to abandon plans to gain a license in Switzerland via its financial regulator FINMA and is instead going to set up operations in the... read more

KYC and the rise of cryptocurrency payments

14 May 21 @ 09:57

What a difference a year makes. Just 18 months ago, leading global bankers were describing cryptocurrencies as “a worse [bubble] than tulip bulbs” – and now Goldman Sachs has launched... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

14 May 21 @ 08:15

There’s a real sense of positivity in the air this week, isn’t there? Probably to do with the slow (but steady) reopening of the country. Plus, the weather has been... read more

How to ramp up Europe’s fight against money laundering

12 May 21 @ 12:07

Money laundering is about much more than white-collar crime. It is a process which fuels the activities of criminal gangs that are extremely harmful to European society as a whole.... read more

De Roos & Pen sends notice to Dutch bank for financial malpractice

12 May 21 @ 11:41

In another startling case of financial malpractice unearthed in a Dutch-registered bank headquartered in the Netherlands owned by a Turkish financial holding company, a whistle blower as advised by his... read more

Online casino payment options: What, why and how?

12 May 21 @ 11:08

Unless you have been living under a rock, we are going to go ahead and presume that you are aware of the global phenomenon that is the online casino. Since... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more