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Updated Android Pay selected by top global banks to enhance mobile banking apps

18 Apr 17 @ 13:48

Android Pay has linked its mobile wallet service to a handful of mobile banking apps, giving consumers the ability add their cards more quickly to the mobile wallet. Customers of Bank of... read more

Swift introduces fraud tool but comes under pressure from hacking group NSA claims

18 Apr 17 @ 13:39

Swift has revealed a service designed to help banks spot fraudulent messages and avoid a repeat of the now infamous Bangladesh Bank hack. Customers are able to integrate the service directly into... read more

ACH volume grows to more than 25 billion payments and $43 trillion

18 Apr 17 @ 10:53

Following four consecutive quarters of more than 5 billion electronic payments in each quarter – a first for the ACH Network – overall volume in 2016 amounted to 25.6 billion... read more

A step towards financial inclusion with mobile banking using new ISO standards

13 Apr 17 @ 10:35

Mobile banking not only makes our life easier, it gives access to banking services to those that have none. A new series of standards just published will provide the platform... read more

Hong Kong Central Bank set to trial digital currency due for launch in 2017

12 Apr 17 @ 12:50

Hong Kong’s  central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority is reported to be developing a prototype digital currency. The disclosure came in a Hong Kong legislative document published by the Legislative Council Panel... read more

Disappearing payments: How to navigate the future

12 Apr 17 @ 12:22

The future of payments won’t be about payments, it’ll be about data. Specifically the contextual data that travels with payment, rather than the payment message itself. Payment will cease to... read more

Mastercard gains regulatory approval to acquire VocaLink

11 Apr 17 @ 15:10

Mastercard says the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority’s decision has cleared the way for the completion of the company’s planned acquisition of VocaLink. The CMA gave final approval for the proposed set... read more

Apple Pay mobile payment adoption rates poor… and slowing

11 Apr 17 @ 13:22

When Apple launched its Apple Pay mobile payment service more than two years ago, it hoped to speed up the checkout process and, ultimately, to replace physical wallets for US... read more

PSD2: Towards a platform approach — what banks need to know

11 Apr 17 @ 12:13

Open innovation is undoubtedly one of the drivers behind PSD2. However, the trend towards open banking and APIs is a global one that goes beyond European legislation. And effects more... read more

Apple Pay funding added to Western Union to enable mobile money transfer

06 Apr 17 @ 17:37

Western Union says that US customers using its mobile app can now pay with Apple Pay when sending money transfers originating in the US to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide,... read more

Security scans on 60,000 websites shows 78% of e-commerce websites at risk

06 Apr 17 @ 17:17

Security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform, show that 78% are missing critical security patches, while 5% are confirmed to have payment card data harvesting... read more

US set to relax rules for banks – too big to fail problem solved

06 Apr 17 @ 16:37

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase has come out in support of Donald Trump’s move to relax financial regulations, saying that the slew of new rules put in... 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