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Visa Europe ramps up tokenization service

16 Feb 16 @ 15:56

Visa Europe has expanded its tokenization service to include support for services where payment credentials are stored in the cloud — such as banks’ own mobile payment apps, wearables and... read more

NFC mobile services: Cost considerations of deployment models

16 Feb 16 @ 09:00

SIMalliance published an illustration intended to help NFC service providers to understand the cost considerations of different NFC deployment models. The illustration compares the known and hidden conceptual costs of... read more

ACCC clears Australian banks of colluding to block bitcoin

15 Feb 16 @ 18:19

Following on from the initial investigation in September 2015, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has cleared banks of any wrongdoing in its inquiry into the withdrawal of banking services... read more

World Class Payments: How UK payment habits compare internationally

15 Feb 16 @ 12:09

Payments UK, the trade association for the payments industry, has published a second report in its World Class Payments series, titled: ‘How consumers around the world make payments’. The report... read more

€1 billion revenue from mobile wallets in Europe from 2021

15 Feb 16 @ 11:49

Mobile wallet transactions number in the European Union will experience a CAGR of 61.8% over 2016-2021, ensuring the revenue for the payments industry will pass the €1 billion bar by... read more

LG delays launch of LG Pay

15 Feb 16 @ 09:07

LG Electronics has announced it will delay plan to launch the LG Pay mobile payments system at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), The Korea Times reports, citing an unnamed company... read more

Amex enables G&D for HCE cloud payment services

12 Feb 16 @ 12:54

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announce that its Convego CloudPay solution has achieved Amex Enabled accreditation for cloud payment services. The Amex Enabled accreditation covers core services, including digital credential management, payment... read more

Vodafone teams with PayPal to expand contactless mobile wallet payments

11 Feb 16 @ 17:56

Vodafone has has announced a strategic partnership with PayPal to expand contactless payments across its mobile wallet.

UK retailers losing millions due to check-out misery

11 Feb 16 @ 17:41

UK retailers are missing out on millions of pounds in lost sales by not listening to staff who’ve spotted a vital need to improve customer service at the check-out.

Worldpay moves into Canada

11 Feb 16 @ 14:42

Toronto-based Rakuten Kobo has selected Worldpay to manage its online payment processing and acquiring in Canada.

Technology companies dominate best global brands list

10 Feb 16 @ 11:30

For the third year in a row, Apple and Google claimed the top positions in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report. Technology brands represented more than a third of the table’s... read more

Cybercrime attacks increase with Metel, GCMAN and Carbanak 2.0

10 Feb 16 @ 09:30

In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cybercrime...

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Wero expands into Austria as Europe’s payments ambitions gather momentum

23 Jun 26 @ 18:52

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more

UK fraud losses reach four-year high

16 Jun 26 @ 18:17

Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more

Visa and Mastercard move to end two-decade swipe fee battle

11 Jun 26 @ 16:00

A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more