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UK card spend tops £0.5 trillion for first time

04 Jun 14 @ 13:58

Annual domestic card spending by UK consumers passed £0.5 trillion for the first ever time in 2013 as shoppers increasingly choose cards over cash, according to a report published by... read more

Russia frees ex-con to build national payment system

04 Jun 14 @ 13:52

In the latest twist concerning the Russia/Ukraine/Crimea situation, it has been reported that the head of a Russian payments company, who was imprisoned in 2013 for organising a cyberattack on... read more

AmEx contacts customers after Anonymous posts card data

04 Jun 14 @ 13:47

American Express has contacted around 75,000 of its customers in California to warn them that their card data has been posted online by Anonymous Ukraine. In March this year, the... read more

Visa and MasterCard will continue to operate in Russia

03 Jun 14 @ 14:24

Visa and MasterCard plan to continue to operate in Russia, following compromise agreements with the Russian government in the wake of the sanctions imposed on the country due to the... read more

London buses ditch cash for contactless

03 Jun 14 @ 14:19

UK transport body Transport for London (TfL) has announced that from 6 July, all of its London buses will be cash-free, with commuters no longer being able to use cash... read more

Apple unlocks mobile payment potential with new TouchID API

03 Jun 14 @ 14:12

Apple has unveiled a new TouchID API which will enable app developers to use fingerprint authentication for mobile payments and other applications. The forthcoming release of iOS 8 will include... read more

Apple rumoured to be making mobile payment play

02 Jun 14 @ 16:15

With speculation over its NFC intentions reaching fever pitch, tech giant Apple is alleged to be planning to launch its own mobile payment service, with senior Apple executives reportedly in... read more

BRC – UK cash usage falls in favour of contactless

02 Jun 14 @ 12:57

The roll-out of contactless cards, the growth of e-commerce and rising usage of self-service tills are all contributing to a fall in cash usage in the UK, according to the... read more

SEB sells card acquiring operations to Nordic Capital

02 Jun 14 @ 12:41

Swedish bank SEB is to sell its card acquiring business Euroline to private equity player Nordic Capital for SEK 2.2 billion. Euroline, which acquires Visa, MasterCard and Diners Club transactions... read more

Biometric payment technology breakthrough

30 May 14 @ 11:12

With incidents of security breaches and fraud increases, the payment industry is paying close attention to secure identification and personal verification methods – could 2014 be the year that biometric... read more

Innovation at the POS 2014

30 May 14 @ 11:01

In this piece of research, sponsored by First Data, PCM has run a survey to ascertain how the global payments industry sees the introduction of innovative POS technology being brought to market.

Security breaches help drive EMV migration in the US

28 May 14 @ 13:55

The recent card security breaches at several major US retailers resulted in payment information from tens of millions of cardholders being stolen. One of the merchants, Target, has since expedited... read more

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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

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

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