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

25 Sep 19 @ 12:43

Deutsche Bank has signed up to Interbank Information Network (IIN), the financial services industry’s biggest blockchain project, led by  JPMorgan Chase. The IIN announce Deutsche to a network of 320... read more

25 Sep 19 @ 09:56

In most countries, cash payments’ share of total payments volume is declining. However, cash in circulation (CIC) remains stable or up slightly over the past five years. Cash has been... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 15:15

On the 14th September, the EU formally introduced its Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regime as part of the PSD2 roll out. Whilst this regulation aims to ensure greater security for... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 09:33

Asia-Pacific is home to almost half of the world’s ATMs, and within this vast region, some countries continue to witness impressive growth, whilst others have started to shrink. Having grown... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 08:34

Ant Financial is the world’s most valuable private FinTech company, and grew out of Alipay, the payments system founded by Alibaba in 2004. It also owns Yu’e Bao, the world’s... read more

24 Sep 19 @ 08:19

Based on a global survey of senior executives at the world’s top-tier banks, a new report from Aite, reveals that high costs, low margins and increasingly commoditised business models are... read more

19 Sep 19 @ 15:37

Armor has released its annual Black Market report 2019 which shows that cybercrime-as-a-service is thriving, with cybercriminals staying ahead of the game by offering a raft of new goods and... read more

19 Sep 19 @ 11:49

SWIFT has published a new paper on the evolution of the European payments landscape and the preparations that need to be made by the region’s financial institutions. The paper, Brave... read more