08 Oct 19 @ 15:51

Although contactless payments are one of the UK’s greatest banking innovations, research from IDEX Biometrics has revealed that consumers are still highly concerned about the threat of contactless fraud. In... read more

08 Oct 19 @ 15:45

InComm has partnered with Mizuho Bank to expand its payment service J-Coin Pay to its retail network in Japan. Through the partnership, a network of more than 18,000 retail locations... read more

08 Oct 19 @ 13:41

Worldline has gained one place in the Sustainalytics ranking and became the 4th out of the 229 companies assessed in the Software and Services industry. For the second year in... read more

07 Oct 19 @ 15:02

Loup Ventures (LV) recently completed its third annual Apple Pay merchant adoption check. This involves checking the desktop websites, mobile websites, and iOS apps of a cohort of 100 of... read more

07 Oct 19 @ 13:02

NatWest is piloting fingerprint based biometric credit card with 150 customers, in partnership with Mastercard and Gemalto, it is the first biometric credit card issued by a UK bank. The... read more

07 Oct 19 @ 11:58

Businesses have been investing heavily in their cybersecurity infrastructure. However, mobile devices and mobile security in most organisations remain an unprotected asset – an easy way in for opportunistic cybercriminals.... read more

03 Oct 19 @ 15:36

Finablr and Samsung have introduced the Money Transfer feature in Samsung Pay. This new in-app international money transfer service, a first of its kind in the US, offers users seamless... read more

03 Oct 19 @ 14:55

First it was a group of influential banks, then it was the EU regulator, now, Visa, Mastercard and other key financial partners are reconsidering their involvement in Libra Coin, Facebook’s... read more

02 Oct 19 @ 10:05

In an unusual trend for a developed market, the number of credit card transactions in Canada has exceeded the number of debit purchase transactions for the first time since 1997,... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 15:03

Our first blog in this series looked at Strong Customer Authentication, and provided the Maxa answer to this challenge. In this blog, we chart the rapid growth of contactless payments... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 11:43

Online marketplaces could be worth as much as $7 trillion in sales by 2024 should organisations capitalise on the full potential of the marketplace trend, according to analysis by iBe.... read more

01 Oct 19 @ 07:57

PayPal has beaten off competition for payments giants Visa and Mastercard to become the first foreign company to acquire a payments licence in China. PayPal obtained the license through the... read more

30 Sep 19 @ 17:51

American Express says it will launch an Open Banking based product that will enable UK consumers to pay for goods and services online directly from their bank account. Pay with... read more

30 Sep 19 @ 15:32

Challenger banks such as Metro Bank, and even larger foreign banks such as Santander, as well as branchless FinTechs such as Monzo, were supposed to break the dominance of the... read more

30 Sep 19 @ 09:32

INFORM and BigML have agreed to terms on a preferred partner program to further ingrain best practice machine learning algorithms to the daily fight against financial crime with RiskShield. Both... read more

27 Sep 19 @ 12:56

The finance industry prevented £820 million of unauthorised fraud in H1 2019, up 14% on the previous year, according to the latest figures from UK Finance. This is equivalent to £2... read more

27 Sep 19 @ 08:35

M-commerce and the use of smartphones for online shopping in the UK has skyrocketed by 141% in 12 months, research by Feefo has found. By contrast, the use of laptops and desktops... read more

26 Sep 19 @ 11:24

Temenos has announced the first set of results from the Temenos Value Benchmark, a strategic, survey-based program providing in-depth analysis of how software capabilities impact a bank’s profitability. Key findings... read more