Daily News

10 Jan 14 @ 16:33

Mobile network operator O2 is to cease operating its O2 mobile wallet service in the UK on 31 March. Launched in April 2012, the service included a range of money transfer,... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 16:14

Parks Associates research says that over 40 million US consumers, or 20% of all smartphone users, used at least one mobile proximity or mobile e-commerce wallet in 2013, and mobile wallet... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 13:02

Adyen has published findings from its analysis of how applying 3D Secure to all transactions can positively or negatively impact transaction conversion rates on a per-country basis. The report, conducted... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 12:36

The European Commission says it will extend the SEPA migration deadline for the introduction of  new faster and cheaper intra-bank payments systems for six months following delays in some EU member... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 12:28

At a recent parliamentary inquiry, a senior Bank of England official said the UK banking sector is still a “long way away” from addressing deficiencies in its “antiquated” bank IT systems.... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 12:15

PKO Bank Polski and EVO Payments International successfully completed EVO’s acquisition of a 66% interest in eService, PKO’s existing merchant acquiring business. In addition, the parties also entered into a... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 12:06

Zimbabwe has begun imposing a mobile money tax on transactions after intense lobbying from the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for the Zimbabwean central bank to regulate mobile money services... read more

08 Jan 14 @ 09:51

Thames Card Technology (TCT), one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of secure chip credit, debit, prepaid, gift and loyalty cards, announced growth capital investment of £3.2 million from independent UK... read more

07 Jan 14 @ 11:40

The European Payments Council (EPC), representing the European banking industry in relation to payments, together with the Cards Stakeholders Group (CSG), today published version 7.0 of the SEPA Cards Standardisation... read more

07 Jan 14 @ 11:25

FICO has released the results of an international survey of smartphone consumers showing that they want to do much more mobile banking than most of today’s smartphone apps permit. While... read more

07 Jan 14 @ 11:07

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expressed its disappointment over the lower-than-expected spread of mobile banking,  adoption of which has been encouraging, but below expectation, due to key factors such... read more

06 Jan 14 @ 16:25

The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association, has announced, in the ongoing Interchange Fee Settlement fiasco  “it has formally filed an appeal of a controversial antitrust lawsuit settlement covering credit... read more