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Citibank and the $900 million “biggest blunders in banking history”

22 Aug 22 @ 12:30

In August 2020, Citibank mistakenly used its own money to repay a $900 million term loan it administered on behalf of Revlon that was held by multiple asset management groups.... read more

Why merchants don’t need to buy fraud insurance to cover everything

22 Aug 22 @ 10:58

The discipline of fraud prevention has changed dramatically over the past five years and continues to evolve rapidly. Consequently, former truths about fraud prevention are increasingly becoming outdated myths. In... read more

The top 5 ransomware statistics from the last year

19 Aug 22 @ 14:08

Cybercriminal gangs launch ransomware attacks to encrypt businesses’ sensitive data and get paid a significant ransom. Sometimes hackers even use a method called double extortion. They threaten the organization to... read more

BLIK Q2: 300 million transactions in one quarter

19 Aug 22 @ 13:42

In Q2 2022, BLIK users completed 292 million transactions worth PLN 38.7 billion (€8.14 billion). At that time, the number of payments in traditional payment terminals was growing the fastest... read more

Want to grow your career? Join a Futurecorn

19 Aug 22 @ 13:16

Earlier this year Viva Technology unveiled its predictions for Europe’s top 100 scale-ups: ​​the “futurecorn” companies on track to become unicorns in the near future, with the UK having more... read more

The new Open Banking era needs better, smarter KYC

17 Aug 22 @ 09:00

In a new white paper, transaction security specialists Ondato explain why the rapid development of Open Banking across Europe means banks, merchants and PSPs must turn to smarter, joined-up KYC... read more

Digital payments: mixed outlook for card payments and stagnation of ATM

16 Aug 22 @ 16:34

A year ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published a white paper, Going digital: payments in the post-Covid world, that showed how digital channels were replacing traditional modes of payments... read more

Financial inclusion drives traffic at ATMs for cash withdrawals

16 Aug 22 @ 13:25

Customers around the world made 69 billion cash withdrawals in 2021. This marks a small increase on 2020, a year with particularly low demand for cash as COVID-19 lockdowns kept... read more

Tap to Mobile: How micromerchants are adapting to a cashless world

16 Aug 22 @ 12:03

A new white paper from Tietoevry explains how categories of merchants traditionally reliant on cash are now adapting to a cashless world. After COVID-19, Europe’s long and slow decline in... read more

Apple Card: An important lesson in Issuing a digitally native card

12 Aug 22 @ 13:55

When Apple launched its Apple Card credit card in 2019, it was touted as a gamechanger, with the usual levels of simplicity and transparency that users expect from Apple products. Behind the... read more

Russian Central Bank want to eradicate “toxic” foreign currencies from system

12 Aug 22 @ 13:29

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation wants the government to order state companies to convert their foreign-exchange holdings into the currencies of countries that haven’t joined sanctions imposed by... read more

UNCTAD wants action to curb cryptocurrencies in developing countries

12 Aug 22 @ 12:04

Global use of cryptocurrencies has increased exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, including in developing countries. While these private digital currencies have rewarded some, and facilitate remittances, they are an unstable... read more

Which countries are most reliant on cash and which are least reliant

11 Aug 22 @ 13:48

Since Merchant Machine’s analysis of the countries most reliant on cash in 2021, countries around the world have seen further changes in their payment methods. In light of this, the research... read more

Reserve Bank of Australia to explore use cases for CBDC

11 Aug 22 @ 13:35

The Reserve Bank of Australia is collaborating with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) on a research project to explore use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).... read more

Cybercrime and how attackers target the Metaverse

10 Aug 22 @ 12:32

The metaverse is the growing digital realm that uses augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain, social media, and a host of other technologies to create a vast virtual world. Companies looking... read more

Online marketplaces now responsible for over £280 billion business turnover in UK

10 Aug 22 @ 11:58

New research from Shieldpay and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has found that almost 900,000 (882,900) UK businesses are currently selling on online marketplaces, generating an estimated £282... read more

Remittances sent worldwide jump over 60% to $653 billion

09 Aug 22 @ 13:50

Remittances sent worldwide have increased 64.3% in the past decade, rising from $420.1 billion 10 years ago to $653.4 billion in the last year*, according to research by ACE Money... read more

US sanctions Tornado Cash over systematic money laundering

09 Aug 22 @ 10:29

The US has imposed sanctions on Tornado Cash, a crypto “mixing service” that they say has laundered more than $7 billion over the past three years and helped North Korean... 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

Visa Builds Agentic Commerce Infrastructure as Credentials Reach 5.2 Billion

29 Oct 26 @ 19:39

Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... 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