Daily News

02 Dec 14 @ 15:47

Cyber weekend, the culmination of Black Friday and Black Monday combined is over for another year and IBM’s James Lovell, European Retail Solution Leader discusses some of the key findings to come... read more

02 Dec 14 @ 11:24

Australia’s new payment system will be delayed by a year after five institutions stepped back from funding the $1 billion project. It was announced on Tuesday that the Reserve Bank of Australia-backed real... read more

02 Dec 14 @ 10:10

It has been revealed that payment technology is set to be a key area of focus for banks across the globe in 2015 – according to the Ovum ICT Enterprise Insights* program, based... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 17:00

MasterCard is seeking to partner with Visa to use biometric information to replace passwords for online payments. Existing password-based online security authentication is known as 3D Secure, which the two... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 16:18

Proving that politicians should stay out of industries they do not understand and further backing up the law of unintended consequences, Europe’s politicians are currently considering final changes in the proposed Interchange Fee... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 16:00

Compass Plus, the retail banking and electronic payments software providers, has announced that its open development payment platform, TranzAxis, has now been fully certified to support Futurex’s Excrypt SSP9000 hardware security... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 12:29

Norway is set to roll-out Valyou, its first mobile NFC payment service, which is a collaboration between the country’s leading mobile operator and two of its largest financial institutions, recognising... read more

28 Nov 14 @ 15:20

Snapchat’s introduction of its Snapcash person-to-person payment service in collaboration with Square is indicative of companies’ growing leverage of social media accounts as payment tools. Snapchat’s flagship product is an... read more

28 Nov 14 @ 11:44

Further to the announcement on 8 September 2014 regarding the conditional acquisition of The Logic Group by Barclaycard (the Acquisition), Barclays Bank has announced that following receipt of competition authority clearance... read more

27 Nov 14 @ 15:34

Skrill Group has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Ukash[ii].  On completion, this acquisition will add scale and reach to Skrill Group’s rapidly growing paysafecard, one of Europe’s... read more

27 Nov 14 @ 15:27

This weekend, online spending in the UK is set to approach £1.5 billion[1] as consumers hit the shops to do their Christmas shopping, taking full advantage of the upcoming sales.... read more

27 Nov 14 @ 10:30

ATMIA has  published its 2014 global ATM fraud survey. Respondents from 42 countries, across all major regions, took part in the survey, up from a geographical spread in the 2013... read more