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Mobile payment index reveals mobile payments climb to 19.5% of transactions globally

30 Jan 14 @ 15:43

Adyen has delivered findings from its third Mobile Payments Index covering the period September to December 2013. The Index shows mobile payments accounted for 19.5% of all transactions worldwide in December,... read more

Money laundering top of bank boardroom agenda

30 Jan 14 @ 14:01

Bank boardroom focus on money laundering is at an all time high, according to data released by KPMG. Nine out of ten of senior financial executives (88%) questioned for KPMG’s... read more

Canadian mobile payments – a case study in cooperation

29 Jan 14 @ 17:07

Canada has become a leader in the adoption of mobile payments by merchants and consumers. PCM looks at the factors driving the country’s m-payments success story and how a collaborative... read more

Financial Conduct Authority seeks personal accountability through attestations

29 Jan 14 @ 16:30

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 £472,262,738 worth of fines, a significant increase to the £311,569,256 handed by its predecessor the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2012.

El Corte Inglés incorporate contactless payments technology in all outlets

28 Jan 14 @ 16:29

El Corte Inglés has received Visa Europe’s certification to implement contactless payments in all its shopping centres. From now on, and for all contactless payments, cardholders won’t have to hand... read more

DeviceFidelity provides Isis ready NFC iphone cases

28 Jan 14 @ 15:28

DeviceFidelity,  a provider of plug and play mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) and security solutions, says that its Isis Ready NFC iPhone cases are available online, and will be available in AT&T... read more

ReD and Setcom partner for fraud prevention in South Africa

28 Jan 14 @ 14:28

South African headquartered Payment Gateway, Setcom, has announced a new four year agreement with ReD, a leading global fraud prevention provider. The agreement will make ReD’s industry leading ReD Shield... read more

Neiman Marcus data breach: 1.1 million cards compromised

28 Jan 14 @ 12:40

Neiman Marcus has been forced to admit that up to 1.1 million customer payment cards were compromised in the recent data breach that hit its instore POS terminals over a... read more

EU payment regulation – Raising questions

28 Jan 14 @ 11:07

Recent payment regulation, interchange proposals in Europe and the revision of the Payment Services Directive will have a significant impact on business strategies for all stakeholders going forward – reports... read more

Apple mobile payments

27 Jan 14 @ 11:58

Apple is laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards on file through its... read more

The power of mPOS

27 Jan 14 @ 11:05

The rapid growth of the mPOS sector worldwide is making a profound impact on the wider industry, with banks, vendors and non-bank players all fighting for a piece of the... read more

US bank IT spending to hit $62 billion

24 Jan 14 @ 12:48

US bank IT spending is rising at a solid clip and is expected to be 4.5% higher in 2014. Growth will be consistent and climb slightly in 2015, as IT... 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