Daily News

21 Jan 14 @ 12:10

The financial services arm of car manufacturer, Toyota, is offering customers the option to make additional payments on their car plans by using Pingit mobile payments. Toyota Financial Services provides... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 16:32

New statistics released today by the European Central Bank (ECB) show that SEPA migration to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) gathered pace strongly in December. According to the latest figures... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 12:46

After several years of initiatives such as its Passbook wallet, this year will finally see Apple grasp the mettle and launch a fully-fledged mobile payments service, according to a forecast... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 12:36

Microsoft’s push into mobile payments is moving forward thanks to new partnerships in its Deigned for Surface effort unveiled at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference. AnywhereCommerce has joined the... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 12:10

Security firm IntelCrawler has released information implicating a Russian teen sold the BlackPOS malware responsible for breaching security at the retailers Target and Neiman Marcus and affecting as many as 110 million... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 11:57

Elavon has been selected by mobile payments provider iZettle to provide the back-end card payment processing which aids its services to small businesses across countries including the UK and Spain.... read more

20 Jan 14 @ 11:48

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has shown that it will adopt a more robust approach to regulating Financial Services firms. Last year saw the FCA hand out a total of... read more

17 Jan 14 @ 12:17

Bank of America is planning to shrink the company’s 6,100-branch network by about 10%, a pullback from the two-decade expansion that took the bank from coast to coast – the... read more

17 Jan 14 @ 11:53

EMVCo has begun work on token specifications for the use of digital tokens – rather than account numbers – for electronic and mobile transactions. Tokenisation replaces a traditional card account... read more

17 Jan 14 @ 11:33

Twitter is close to letting its users purchase products directly through the social network and is nearing a deal with payments startup Stripe. The deal, which is in the final... read more

16 Jan 14 @ 11:47

The number of ATMs installed worldwide increased by more than 180,000 during 2012 so the global ATM market reached 2.6 million at the end of the year. This is one... read more

16 Jan 14 @ 11:28

SmartMetric, a developer of patented payment card technology and in-card biometric products, announced that its soon-to-launch SmartMetric Biometric Bitcoin Card, the world’s first biometric, fingerprint secured, off-line storage platform for... read more