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
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
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
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
06 May 20 @ 11:18
Remittances have played an increasingly important role in the economies of many low-income countries as migrants around the world have been sending an increasing amount of money home in recent... read more
04 May 20 @ 15:18
Despite tough trade winds, both Visa and Mastercard have been able to post good quarterly results. Shares of Mastercard rose after it posted Q1 earnings that exceeded expectations. Adjusted earnings... read more
04 May 20 @ 14:51
Smart Payment Association (SPA), the global trade body of the smart payments industry, has published proposals for an Instant Payment Card that would extend SEPA instant Credit Transfer functionality to... read more
01 May 20 @ 14:06
New research from Nucoro reveals that between 14th March and 14th April, because of the COVID-19 lockdown, around 12% of the adult population in the UK – some 6 million... read more
01 May 20 @ 10:48
Embattled foreign-exchange business owner Finablr, has uncovered about $1 billion of debt hidden from its board that may have been used for purposes outside of the company, compounding a scandal that... read more
01 May 20 @ 09:47
The European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF) has called for a delay to the implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) of at least six months in a letter dated 24 April 2020,... read more
01 May 20 @ 09:33
China will begin trialling payments of its new Central Bank Digital Currency in four major cities, according to domestic media. In recent months, China’s central bank has stepped up its... read more
30 Apr 20 @ 10:25
There aren’t many technologies that have captured the imagination of futurists in the financial services quite like Artificial Intelligence (AI). While images of autonomous cars, robot servants, and Skynet-like uprisings... read more
30 Apr 20 @ 09:17
2020 so far has not been quite what anyone expected. There are no flying cars, no hoverboards, no teleportation – and thankfully we haven’t been forced to survive on fried... read more
29 Apr 20 @ 09:38
FSS Technologies has announced a collaboration with Fairplay Pay s.r.o. one of the Czech Republic’s newest payments innovators specialising in SEPA and domestic transactions for its full-stack online acquiring suite.... read more
28 Apr 20 @ 14:06
The outbreak of COVID-19 has upended economies throughout the world, including the App Economy. A multitude of government measures aimed at halting the spread of the COVID-19 virus, from social... read more
28 Apr 20 @ 13:29
JCB is leveraging a leading Asian FinTech, Soft Space, to develop its Tap on Mobile programme that capitalises on the wide availability of Android smartphones equipped with NFC (Near-Field Communication).... read more
28 Apr 20 @ 08:37
Wirecard says that the independent audit by KPMG into fraud allegations uncovered no need to restate earnings, but added that all the data needed to confirm past revenues could not... read more
27 Apr 20 @ 15:54
Sift has announced the release of its COVID-19 and E-Commerce Fraud Tracker, a weekly updating digest of changes in e-commerce and fraud amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As businesses in nearly... read more
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
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
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