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Using fraud prevention to gain a competitive advantage

03 Nov 21 @ 10:29

A proactive and forward-thinking e-commerce business can get ahead by using data for fraud prevention and chargebacks. Online transactions surged in the last year. Ninety-seven percent of CEOs know that... read more

Nubank targets $50 billion IPO valuation on net losses of $99.1 million

03 Nov 21 @ 09:00

Nubank has set a target valuation of $50 billion in its proposed initial public offering in New York, as the lossmaking digital lender looks to join the ranks of Latin... read more

Card versus digital wallet Super-App: which one wins?

02 Nov 21 @ 17:23

Digital wallets are expanding their functionality and credit cards are going to have to evolve to compete. As digitisation gathers pace, mobile devices with digital wallets linked directly to bank... read more

The European Payments Landscape in 2030: Implants, AI and the no-cash generation

02 Nov 21 @ 13:19

A new report, The European Payments Landscape in 2030: Implants, embedded ethics and a ‘post-payments’ world, examines the potential issues and innovations that may emerge in the next decade of... read more

36% decline in e-commerce fraud rate follows increased adoption of 3DS

02 Nov 21 @ 12:41

E-commerce fraud attack rates have declined 36% in the past 12 months, whilst 3DS transactions have grown more than 600% across the same period, led by uptake of the new... read more

The shift from ownership to access is coming to in-store acquiring: here’s why

01 Nov 21 @ 14:54

Payments acquirers serving in-store merchants face major challenges, some of which are so significant they need a completely fresh approach. New ways to pay are proliferating, such as digital wallets... read more

Interview – Flexible, powerful and easy to use: Why digital devices are becoming POS terminals

01 Nov 21 @ 12:49

Payments Cards & Mobile spoke to Grzegorz Nowakowski (GN), Co-founder and Vice President at SoftPos, to find out more about the use of digital devices as point-of-sale (POS) acceptance terminals... read more

Payments Cards & Mobile Jobs of the Week

01 Nov 21 @ 11:46

If you’re looking for a new job, you have very much come to the right place. Our job board is seeing loads of extra traffic at the moment, so it’s... read more

Adamantlane AG announces it has onboarded its first billion dollar partner

01 Nov 21 @ 09:37

Swiss based Adamantlane AG has announced that it has onboarded its first billion-dollar partner onto its Liquidity Hub platform since its launch in 2019. Adamantlane started in 2019 with the... read more

US moves in as Bitcoin king after China ban on crypto

20 Oct 21 @ 16:51

Two months after Beijing banned crypto mining this year, new data has revealed that the US has overtaken China as the world’s biggest source of bitcoin mining. China’s share of... read more

Average cash withdrawals in the UK on the rise

20 Oct 21 @ 16:29

According to newly published research, UK consumers are taking out more cash when they visit ATMs, with the average amount climbing more than £10 to just under £80 in the... read more

HSBC is working with Oracle to launch Banking as a Service

20 Oct 21 @ 16:23

HSBC is to launch a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering that will enable customers to create and provide business banking services through their own platforms. HSBC and Oracle NetSuite... read more

Payment card spending update for July 2021 and a comparison on 2020

19 Oct 21 @ 15:30

Payment card spending covers the monthly value and volume of transactions across debit and credit cards, both in the UK, and of UK-issued cards across the world. This data also... read more

Hacker advice: Stop trying to keep me out – focus on the data

19 Oct 21 @ 12:39

For more than 20 years, businesses around the world have been hiring hackers. They want us to find exploitable loopholes in their “armour” and break in as far as we... read more

KYC and what it means for FinTechs in Ireland

19 Oct 21 @ 11:28

According to The FinTech Times, the number of FinTechs incorporated in Ireland grew by 30% over the last two years, fuelled by Brexit and Ireland’s growing reputation as a financial... read more

bp and Mercedes-Benz trial In-Truck Pay fuel payments in UK

19 Oct 21 @ 11:00

bp and Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK have successfully tested In-Truck Pay, the first digital in-truck fuel payment system in the UK. The  new app-based system, bp In-Truck Pay, which was first... read more

Is there a problem in the e-money institution market?

18 Oct 21 @ 12:04

There are now some 479 e-money institutions (EMIs) across the European Union and a further 235 in the UK. EMIs store cash for their customers in a digital format for... read more

Canadian consumer payments make full recovery in 2021

18 Oct 21 @ 12:00

The number of consumer payments in Canada is expected to increase by 770 million transactions in 2021 after falling by 1.68 billion in 2020, according to the recently released Canadian... read more

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ECB brings Central Bank money to tokenised market

23 Sep 26 @ 14:34

The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more

European E-commerce Hits €911bn as Payments Reshape Online Retail

21 Sep 26 @ 19:41

European e-commerce has broken through the €900bn barrier, underlining the growing importance of digital retail to the continent's economy while intensifying ... more

Inside A7: How Russia built a parallel cross-border payments network

24 Sep 26 @ 16:29

Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more