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SEPA migration deadline receives extra transition period – a legal review

13 Feb 14 @ 15:17

Regulation (EU) No 260/2012 (the ‘SEPA 2012 Regulation’) established common technical and business requirements for credit transfers and direct debits denominated in euros and was seen as an important building... read more

wagamama signs up to digital wallet V.me

13 Feb 14 @ 11:49

Restaurant chain joins 4,000 merchants now using V.me by Visa to give customers a fast and safe online shopping experience. Visa Europe and WorldPay announced that wagamama customers will soon... read more

MasterPass arrives on the Spanish Market

12 Feb 14 @ 17:13

Digital payment solution MasterPass is now available in Spain thanks to the agreements reached with several financial institutions and merchants across the country. Main Spanish financial entities are already working... read more

Technology investment pays off

12 Feb 14 @ 16:52

Commonwealth Bank of Australia says that technology investment is a major factor in its impressive 14% rise in H1 profits. CommBank beat analysts’ forecasts to report cash earnings of A$4.27... read more

NFC phones to soar fourfold in next five years

12 Feb 14 @ 15:24

Global shipments of NFC phones equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will surge by more than a factor of four from 2013 to 2018, reaching 1.2 billion units, according... read more

Virtual currencies: a boon or scourge?

12 Feb 14 @ 11:23

Last year, PCM delved into the world of virtual currencies, looking at how emerging (and unregulated) methods like Bitcoin could impact the payments industry. In less than a year, the pace of... read more

Vodafone and MoneyGram agreement allows mobile remittance from 200 countries

12 Feb 14 @ 10:14

Vodafone and MoneyGram have teamed up to enable mobile remittance allowing consumers to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to the millions of users of M-Pesa. This service will be... read more

Advanced cyber security and identity solutions for virtual currencies

12 Feb 14 @ 09:22

Late last year, prior to the massive buzz surrounding the uncertainty of virtual currencies, ValidSoft partnered with Ven, a global virtual currency to deploy cyber security and identity theft protection solutions to virtual currencies.... read more

Commuters could be overcharged by contactless payment system

11 Feb 14 @ 16:56

Rail and Tube users could be overcharged because of a quirk in the contactless payment system, it has been revealed. Commuters who, when touching in and out, have their Oyster... read more

Jumio launches ID scanning product

11 Feb 14 @ 16:49

Jumio a mobile payments and credentials management company, announced the availability of Jumio Fastfill, a service that automates key entry of personal customer information, by ID scanning, in mobile apps,... read more

Competition drives growth in European cards market

11 Feb 14 @ 16:24

Competition among banks to gain new customers, and campaigns to replace low-value cash transactions with card payments, have driven significant levels of card issuance and rising card usage in the... read more

US banks re-issue 17.2 million cards data breaches

10 Feb 14 @ 10:15

US banks have been forced to pay out over $172 million in re-issued plastic cards, according to figures from the Consumer Bankers’ Association following the well publicised data breaches of... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more

UK Moves to Open iPhone Contactless Payments to Apple Pay Rivals

22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more