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Mobile payment solutions to heat up trusted service management market

06 May 14 @ 18:20

The global market for trusted service management (TSM) has not quite lived up to expectations with the low level of mobile payments solutions and near field communication (NFC) commercial deployments... read more

How not to do a core platform renewal

05 May 14 @ 11:22

An independent report into events surrounding the near collapse of the UK’s Co-operative Bank offers a cautionary tale for banks contemplating a core platform renewal programme. The independent review by... read more

US Federal Reserve: cash continues to play a key role

05 May 14 @ 10:07

The Federal Reserve Banks has released a new report which shows that US consumers choose to use cash more frequently than any other payment instrument, including debit or credit cards.... read more

Payment investment – Start-ups – boom or bust?

02 May 14 @ 13:10

With record levels of investment from venture capital groups being ploughed into payment start-ups, is there a risk of another dotcom-style boom and bust? by Victoria Conroy The halcyon days... read more

What Apple mobile payments could look like

01 May 14 @ 16:05

Apple is working on a mobile payments solution, as per numerous reports from PCM, but also mainstream news like The Wall Street Journal. Exactly how the company plans to implement such a... read more

PayPal reveals new brand image as mobile use surges

01 May 14 @ 12:59

PayPal has revealed its shiny new look and its first-ever global marketing push as parent eBay tries to wrest attention away from the growing number of rivals piling into the mobile payments... read more

UK contactless cards spend tops £100m per month as transactions triple in a year

30 Apr 14 @ 09:58

Monthly spending on UK contactless cards has exceeded £100 million for the first time, according to data published by The UK Cards Association. The new figures show that UK consumers spent a record £109.2 million... read more

ECB steps up SEPA for cards initiative

29 Apr 14 @ 13:06

Following the near completion of the migration of the first two payment instruments, credit transfers (CTs) and direct debits (DDs), to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the Eurosystem is... read more

Trends and online transaction Q1 2014

29 Apr 14 @ 11:39

Realex have collated all of the online transactions that they processed in Q1 2014 from January to March,and created an infograph to illustrate the figures.

Mobile payments system Paym goes live

29 Apr 14 @ 10:51

The UK Payments Council backed mobile payments system Paym (pronounced Pay’ em) has gone live today amidst security fears and low registration numbers. Only 400,000 people have registered for the... read more

Cost of cash to UK businesses more than £17.8 billion a year

29 Apr 14 @ 09:59

The average cost of cash handling for UK SMBs has reached more than £17.8 billion a year, or £3,638.57 per retailer, according to new research by payment service provider Sage... read more

Ondot launches remote CardControl app

28 Apr 14 @ 13:21

Tech start-up Ondot is the latest US company to come out of hibernation and is now pushing a CardControl app that allows users to control nearly every aspect of how their... 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