Daily News

11 Mar 14 @ 09:21

New fronts in the war on cash are being opened up worldwide through a range of innovative services and payments products. Is the dream of a cashless society far-fetched? While we... read more

10 Mar 14 @ 17:04

The UK’s Payments Council is to launch a secure means for consumers to make payments using a mobile number, in a long awaited service backed by the UK’s banks, called... read more

10 Mar 14 @ 13:00

In a stark warning from the PCI Security Standards Council, up to 95% of the world’s ATMs could be left wide open to hackers next month when Microsoft ends tech support... read more

10 Mar 14 @ 12:52

Visa and MasterCard have launched a cross-industry EMV acceptance group to improve security for card transactions and press US retailers and banks to meet a 2015 deadline to adopt technology that would make it safer... read more

10 Mar 14 @ 12:43

Chinese search engine, Baidu has formed a partnership to apply for a private banking license, as China’s biggest search engine provider moves from acting as a store front for money market funds... read more

07 Mar 14 @ 10:58

Biometric technology is a big talking point at the moment as there is growing consumer dissatisfaction with PINs, passwords and general security around mobile payments. The further down the digital... read more

06 Mar 14 @ 15:33

Payment card fraud in the US is rampant, and it’s adding up to big losses. The US accounted for 51% of global payment card fraud costs in 2013, according to BI... read more

06 Mar 14 @ 15:15

Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He’s wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he... read more

05 Mar 14 @ 15:40

The European Banking Authority (EBA) will create a taskforce to advise it on whether virtual currencies like beleaguered Bitcoin, should be regulated. The watchdog said that the taskforce will be... read more

05 Mar 14 @ 15:16

SWIFT has created a financial crime compliance services unit headed up by Luc Meurant. The expanding team is tasked with launching SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry shared services platform, which... read more

04 Mar 14 @ 15:56

Last year’s Target breach flooded underground markets with millions of stolen credit and debit cards. In the days surrounding the breach disclosure, the cards carried unusually high price tags — in... read more

04 Mar 14 @ 15:38

Banco Sabadell has announced the launch of its technology pilot, delivering Host Card Emulation (HCE) for NFC mobile payments. This solution simplifies the complexity typically associated with mobile payment deployments, enabling... read more