24 Apr 19 @ 12:15

Car makers, Big Tech and suppliers are all jostling to own customer relationships and data in the era of the connected car. Sound familiar? Everything is miscellaneous but somehow connected.... read more

24 Apr 19 @ 10:29

E-commerce payments in the Gulf states, which have grown rapidly in recent years, are set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.1% from AED 31.5 billion... read more

18 Apr 19 @ 11:34

The late Apple co-founder and long-time CEO Steve Jobs famously believed that, when it came to product design, less was more, and of course his creations delighted consumers all over... read more

18 Apr 19 @ 10:26

So, Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency. The move is partly to counter the threat from up and coming messaging rivals Telegram and Signal, with the effort to build its... read more

18 Apr 19 @ 10:16

New research by has found that the number of cross-border transactions recorded on the blockchain will surge to 1.3 billion by 2023, a CAGR of 82% over the next 4 years.... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 16:15

The UK Court of Appeals has overturned a formerly favourable Mastercard interchange fee ruling. The £14 billion lawsuit against Mastercard for imposing charges on UK consumers looks set to proceed... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 10:57

Analysis by Ravelin of millions of global business transactions reveals 22% of payments are lost when authenticated using 3D Secure. Improved user experience alone won’t cut it – online sellers... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 09:10

Antony Jenkins, founder and Executive Chairman at 10X Future Technologies, culminated a long and successful career in banking by running Barclays Plc. Before that, he ran the retail business at... read more

15 Apr 19 @ 13:47

Coinbase, a small cryptocurrency exchange is launching Coinbase Card, a Visa bitcoin debit card in the UK, letting users pay with bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin. Coinbase says that the card, which... read more

15 Apr 19 @ 12:53

Kaspersky Lab has published the results of an investigation into Genesis, an e-shop that is trading over 60,000 digital doppelgangers, stolen and legitimate digital identities, making successful credit card fraud that much... read more

15 Apr 19 @ 11:38

According to new research commissioned by LegalShield, over a quarter of UK consumers (26%) have been directly affected by identity theft, including a company breach, whilst 17% know family members... read more

10 Apr 19 @ 10:11

Newton’s Cradle (a highly favoured executive toy) was a common sound in offices for many years. If you cast your mind back to your schooldays you’ll no doubt remember that... read more

09 Apr 19 @ 13:04

The value of e-commerce mergers and acquisitions value grew by $20 billion over 2017’s figures, buoyed by massive transactions like Walmart’s acquisition of Indian e-retailer Flipkart ($16 billion), and Adobe’s... read more

09 Apr 19 @ 10:00

GATE (Global Acceptance Transaction Engine) has released its Mobile Wallet Trends Annual Report, highlighting trends in both mobile wallet and mobile payment usage across global markets. Mobile wallets are still... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 12:35

A group of 12 regional and digital financial institutions have joined together as investors and members in KY3P, for managing third-party risk and optimising the processes by which financial institutions... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 10:23

A recent research report by Bitwise Asset Management revealed that 95% of the reported trading volumes in Bitcoin by CoinMarketCap.com is fake and artificially created by unregulated exchanges. Surprisingly, this fake data... read more

05 Apr 19 @ 12:20

Citigroup recently announced that it is developing a consumer-payments platform (B2C payments), in a move to enter the rapidly growing digital payments industry. Citi’s new service will offer merchants a... read more

05 Apr 19 @ 12:10

WhatsApp is rumoured  to be developing a cryptocurrency wallet service, developed by Wuabit, and allowing users to make payments via Bitcoin along with other major digital currencies The new service... read more