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Orange launches its own mobile bank – Orange Bank

02 Nov 17 @ 17:08

Orange has launched its own mobile bank, Orange Bank, aiming to win 25% of France’s online banking market by capitalizing on the rising use of smartphones to steal share from established... read more

Australian Banks partner for mobile P2P payments JV – Beem

02 Nov 17 @ 16:59

Three of Australia’s largest banks, The Commonwealth Bank(CBA), National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac have partnered to create a new mobile P2P payments platform, named Beem. In the wake of their battle with... read more

Visa launch real-time payments platform Visa Direct in Europe

02 Nov 17 @ 16:34

Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments... read more

Unlocking the next-generation of powered payment cards

01 Nov 17 @ 13:39

Powered payment cards become powered when they take on interactive form factors such as biometric sensors and Dynamic Code Verification (DCV). In total, 213 million powered payment cards are forecasted to... read more

Google Tez hits over 7.5m users in 5 weeks

01 Nov 17 @ 10:38

Google has made several announcements around Google Tez, the payments app that the search giant had launched in India last month. Based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the NPCI’s payments platform for the... read more

Real time payments: Towards speed and transparency

01 Nov 17 @ 09:18

While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more

Bitcoin thieves are back – CryptoShuffler Trojan hunt for users’ cryptosavings

31 Oct 17 @ 14:50

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware, CryptoShuffler Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting... read more

The World’s most cashless countries – Infographic

31 Oct 17 @ 10:15

A new study has found the countries among the 20 largest economies who are adapting quickest to using cashless systems like phones and contactless cards – revealing that Canada narrowly... read more

Fraud Report 2017

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

Mastercard opens up API access to blockchain platform

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

Annual report reveals cross-border e-commerce trends in 2017

30 Oct 17 @ 11:28

The fifth annual cross-border e-commerce research report has been published in collaboration with Juniper Research and reveals cross-border e-commerce trends in 2017. The paper includes the results of a global survey of... read more

Data breaches in Financial Services on the rise globally

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

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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