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The Internet Security Threat Report 2018

30 May 18 @ 13:35

The Internet Security Threat Report notes that from the sudden spread of WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya, to the swift growth in coinminers, 2017 provided us with another reminder that digital security... read more

Fraud wars: how can biometrics help win the card fraud battle?

25 May 18 @ 13:57

Fraud and fighting fraudsters is a complex and ever-evolving challenge. As consumers change the way they pay, fraudsters change the way they steal. For banks to keep up, these new... read more

PayPal partners Google for deeper payments integration

25 May 18 @ 13:22

Google has deepened its relationship with PayPal, making it easier to make mobile payments on premium apps and services (like the new YouTube Music, for example). It’s been possible to... read more

SIA makes €375 million acquisition of First Data’s European card processing unit

25 May 18 @ 12:47

SIA and First Data have signed an agreement for SIA to acquire First Data’s card processing businesses in parts of Central and Southeastern Europe for €375 million. In 2017, these... read more

How is the on-demand economy impacted by fraud?

24 May 18 @ 17:31

The term on-demand refers to the way in which a good or service is sold as opposed to what is sold. The primary characteristic of on-demand is that the customer... read more

The Chargeback Triangle – what happens when transactions go wrong?

24 May 18 @ 12:45

Chargebacks were a $31 billion problem in 2017 — a burden that extends far beyond the liability for disputed transactions. Complying with complex and arcane rules that vary across networks... read more

US banking market on the road to consolidation of its 5,600 banks

24 May 18 @ 11:50

The US banking industry has largely sat out the M&A wave of recent years. While deal records have fallen in almost every other sector, big banks have done almost nothing,... read more

Internet of Payments (IoP) – Is this the future of Paying?

23 May 18 @ 20:02

Today, there are more objects enabled with Internet access than ever before – from smartwatches and kitchen appliances to vehicles. Intelligent devices can, in principle, do all sorts of things... read more

Smart Payments Association position on the RTS on SCA

23 May 18 @ 16:46

On 13 March 2018, the regulatory technical standard (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) was finally published in the Official Journal of the European Union – some twenty months after... read more

OSPT Alliance launches CIPURSE training program with FIME

23 May 18 @ 09:03

Global technical association, OSPT Alliance has collaborated with FIME to develop and launch a technical training program. It will educate security, ID, payment, access control and transport players on the... read more

Cloud scalability seduces the financial sector – but there are challenges

21 May 18 @ 20:58

The financial sector, while forging ahead in other areas of digital transformation, has been relatively slow to adopt the cloud and there has been good reason for it: banks have... read more

Windows 10 ATM Migration – ATMs set for another countdown shakeup

21 May 18 @ 16:46

A few  years ago, most banks and ATM network operators were breathing a sigh of relief as they completed their final ATM migration upgrade to Windows 7. Although ATM migration... read more

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Visa turns the card into an identity credential

12 May 26 @ 15:44

Visa has launched a new tap-based authentication technology that could reshape how banks verify customers in mobile banking environments. [caption id="atta... more

FCA probes Paypal, Mastercard and Visa competition

07 May 26 @ 16:30

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened a competition investigation into PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, examining whether commercial arrangements linked... more

Bank of England Warns DLT Complexity in Settlements

18 May 26 @ 17:07

The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant... more