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Japan Post Bank selects Earthport payment network

11 Aug 15 @ 16:45

Cross-border payment transaction processor Earthport has forged an agreement to enable cross-border services for Japan Post Bank, one of Japan’s largest retail banks. The partnership will enable the bank to... read more

Optimal Payments completes Skrill acquisition for €1.1bn

11 Aug 15 @ 16:42

Global payment processor Optimal Payments has completed its acquisition of e-commerce and e-money solution provider Skrill Group for €1.1 billion. The acquisition will create a payment and e-wallet provider with... read more

Carphone Warehouse: 2.4m bank details hacked in data breach

10 Aug 15 @ 16:33

UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has suffered a serious data hacking breach that may have compromised the banking details of 2.4 million customers. The breach was discovered on 5... read more

Draft ISO 20022 standard for real-time payments published

10 Aug 15 @ 16:31

A global scheme aimed at establishing a set of harmonised standards for cross-border real-time payments has published a first draft of ISO 20022 messages for review. The ISO Real-Time Payments... read more

Poll: one in ten US consumers have received EMV cards

07 Aug 15 @ 16:41

The US migration to EMV is failing to gain momentum, with just one in 10 people receiving EMV cards, according to a new poll from GfK Public Affairs. Although the... read more

SIA and JCB sign merchant agreement in Italy

07 Aug 15 @ 16:38

Italian payment service provider SIA and JCB International, a major global payment brand operating in 190 countries around the world, have signed a five-year agreement for the processing of payment... read more

Android accounts for most mobile fraud – Kount

07 Aug 15 @ 16:36

The rate of mobile fraud is highest on Android devices, according to new data from fraud specialists Kount, with mobile fraud also outpacing that of online and in-store fraud for... read more

Vasco and Sumitomo Mitsui to create secure mobile banking app

06 Aug 15 @ 16:45

Vasco Data Security, a global digital security specialist, has announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will provide their online retail banking customers with a highly-secure mobile banking solution for... read more

BW-Bank contracts Wordline for a further seven years

06 Aug 15 @ 16:36

Germany’s Baden-Württembergische Bank (BW-Bank) has extended its contract with global payment processor Worldline for a further seven-year term. The bank came to its decision based on the longstanding collaboration between... read more

US small businesses not ready for EMV

06 Aug 15 @ 16:31

A majority of US small business owners are unaware of the impending EMV1 liability shift coming in October, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index conducted in mid-July.... read more

US comprises bulk of global card fraud losses

05 Aug 15 @ 17:04

New figures from payment industry researchers The Nilson Report show that the US accounted for 48.2% or $7.86 billion of gross losses worldwide on plastic cards in 2014. These figures... read more

SIX and Swisscom team up for mobile payments

05 Aug 15 @ 16:58

Swiss payment service provider SIX and telco Swisscom are collaborating with Swiss banks to introduce a universal mobile payment service for online and offline transactions nationwide. The news follows the... 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