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21 Mar 16 @ 12:51

Statistics by Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK show fraud losses on UK payment cards totalled £567.5 million in 2015, representing an 18% increase from £479 million one year before. Significantly,  total... read more

21 Mar 16 @ 12:36

Tencent is not only China’s largest social network and online entertainment firm, it is now big in mobile payments. The company has quietly built one of the world’s largest mobile payments systems,... read more

21 Mar 16 @ 12:25

A newly discovered Russian hacker group known as Buhtrap has attacked 13 Russian banks since August 2015, using malware that infiltrates their gateway to the central bank, according to Moscow-based... read more

18 Mar 16 @ 11:48

TSYS has announced the results of its 2016 UK Consumer Payment Choice Study. New to the second annual research were findings related to emerging payments. The online survey of more than 500... read more

18 Mar 16 @ 11:22

Blockchain has traditionally been a subject of mitigated opinions, due to its early association with bitcoin, the cryptocurrency adopted by techies all around the world, and also used on anonymous... read more

18 Mar 16 @ 10:07

Chase Bank Kenya, an innovative and fast-growing bank with an ambitious strategy across Africa, has successfully migrated its full card portfolio to the OpenWay WAY4 payment software platform from Electra... read more

18 Mar 16 @ 09:46

ACI will partner with Verifone to deliver a comprehensive pan-European payments platform for Auchan Group, one of Europe’s largest food retailers. Auchan relies on ACI’s market-leading, omni-channel UP Retailer Payments solution... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 12:39

Credit cards dominate the Hong Kong payment cards market in terms of transaction volume and value during the review period (2010-2014) – a trend which is expected to continue up... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 11:57

Vodacom South Africa reportedly considering various options for its sluggish mobile money transfer service M-Pesa. In 2010, Vodacom launched M-Pesa in South Africa and the company set a target of... read more

17 Mar 16 @ 11:48

ICICI Bank is set to roll out an HCE mobile payment solution to enable its credit and debit card customers to make payments with their smartphones at NFC-enabled terminal. The mobile payment solution... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:56

Mobile Maestro (called Bankomatkarte Mobil), an NFC mobile payment app enabled by Payment Services Austria (PSA) and supported by Austria Card, has launched. Following a successful field trial in Linz (Upper... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:30

The results of new research in the UK have revealed that 88% of Britons see cybercrime as now being as big a threat as offline crime, whilst 76% of people... read more