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EasyJet admits data breach via cyber-attack

19 May 20 @ 14:25

EasyJet has revealed that the personal information of 9 million customers was accessed in what the low-cost airline is describing as a “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack. The company announced that email... read more

First Data forced to pay $40 million fine over consumer scams

19 May 20 @ 08:11

First Data Merchant Services and a former executive have been forced to pay more than $40 million to settle a claim by the Federal Trade Commission that the company processed... read more

Visa files digital currency patent in US

18 May 20 @ 15:30

Visa has been reported to have filed an application to create digital currency on Ethereum blockchain with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. According to the application published May 14 —... read more

EuroCommerce petitions for more interchange fee regulation as card fees continue to rise

18 May 20 @ 10:39

EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren has pressed the European Commission to act on the growing problems facing retailers and wholesalers resulting from the limited scope of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR).... read more

Coronavirus tax relief scams and economic impact payments prove we need better ID verification

18 May 20 @ 07:00

New ID verification (IDV) solutions are emerging that revolve around mobile phone ownership and possession together, thereby detecting both stolen numbers and fraudulent numbers when performing a phone number check.... read more

Diebold Nixdorf suffers ProLock ransomware attack

14 May 20 @ 12:04

Diebold Nixdorf has succumbed to a ProLock ransomware attack that is reported to have disrupted some operations. First reported by Krebsonsecurity, the ransomware attack struck the company April 25 and... read more

Mastercard defends £14 billion interchange fee action in supreme court

14 May 20 @ 10:54

Mastercard is facing a claim of up to £14 billion in a landmark UK collective action case over interchange fee charges that were passed on to shoppers. This week, a... read more

Mastercard updated Q2 2020 operating metrics reflect COVID-19 impact

14 May 20 @ 10:11

Mastercard has updated its operating metrics with an additional two weeks of information, in which it is monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related actions being taken by... read more

Warning of surge in opportunistic chargebacks fuelled by COVID-19

13 May 20 @ 15:37

The sudden boom in e-commerce caused by government mandated social distancing and in-store business closures is already generating a sharp increase in fraud and chargebacks. “In the past few weeks,... read more

FinTech Q2 2020: The highs and lows of the market

13 May 20 @ 10:29

I think that the fact that COVID-19 has ravaged economies and industrial sectors does not need to be mentioned again, however the impact on FinTech is now starting to be... read more

Sub-Saharan Africa: The land of mobile money

12 May 20 @ 13:25

As the world comes to terms with the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have on the health and lives of many, some are left wondering exactly what the... read more

Bitcoin third halving: What does it mean for the market?

12 May 20 @ 13:07

Yesterday, Bitcoin went through a much-hyped adjustment that reduced the rate at which new coins are created. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency’s so-called “halving” happens roughly every four years. Halving cuts... read more

Digital payments companies launch new EU trade body: EDPIA

11 May 20 @ 16:03

Ingenico Group, Nets Group, Nexi, and Worldline have announced the launch of an EU advocacy alliance bringing together Europe’s independent payment services providers. The “European Digital Payments Industry Alliance” (EDPIA)’s... read more

European Central Bank to focus on retail CBDC

11 May 20 @ 15:35

The European Central Bank (ECB) says it will look into what a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) form of the euro might look like. The ECB set up a... read more

Payvision changes leadership with new CEO

11 May 20 @ 15:03

Payvision, a global FinTech and omnichannel payments provider, announced today that it has appointed Andre Valkenburg as its new CEO. Andre brings more than 20 years of experience in the... read more

Account takeover fraud is growing fast – There’s a better way to stop it

10 May 20 @ 12:31

Account takeover (ATO) is a major issue for any business looking to protect customer data in the digital environment – and these days, that means pretty much everyone. Adam Lee,... read more

IBM, R3, Mastercard join digital identity consortium Trust over IP (ToIP)

06 May 20 @ 15:47

The Linux Foundation has launched the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation with the aim of creating digital identity standards to enable parties to share data with trust. Aiming to ensure interoperability... read more

FCA delays Strong Customer Authentication – EBA under pressure to follow

06 May 20 @ 12:20

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has delayed the implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). This is the second delay is has authorised. Last year, the FCA extended the deadline... read more

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Visa launches Intelligence Commerce Connect tool

14 Apr 26 @ 20:03

Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven s... more

Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more

American Express launches agentic commerce developer kit

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend produ... more