16 Apr 18 @ 10:57

PayPal seen by some to be nudging its customers closer to mainstream banking services. The renowned payments company has been reaching out to groups of customers in recent months with... read more

16 Apr 18 @ 10:43

The 2018 AFP Payments Fraud Survey, underwritten by J.P. Morgan, revealed that payments fraud reached a new high in 2017 after a downswing earlier in the decade. A record 78% of... read more

16 Apr 18 @ 10:26

Shopping cart abandonment is an e-commerce term used to describe a visitor on a web page who leaves that page before completing the desired action. Examples of abandonment include shopping... read more

13 Apr 18 @ 15:29

It’s an exciting time for payments in the Middle East and Africa. Often considered one of the world’s smaller banking and payments markets in terms of available services, the growth... read more

13 Apr 18 @ 10:17

Banco Santander has launched new international money transfer service using blockchain-based technology from Ripple. The service is available to retail customers in Spain, UK, Brazil and Poland, and will be... read more

13 Apr 18 @ 09:44

Acquiring gambling merchants is high risk. Or at least this always used to be the case. But in a regulated industry quick to adopt new technology, where the house always... read more

12 Apr 18 @ 10:58

Cards and card payment at the point of sale and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2017. This was supported by the rollout of contactless technologies,... read more

12 Apr 18 @ 10:33

The Internet of Things (IoT) is sometimes also known as the internet of insecure things. Or the internet of other people’s things. So much so 90% of consumers lack confidence... read more

12 Apr 18 @ 09:20

If you want to buy or sell something new, unique, and everything in between, eBay is the perfect place for you. The founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar launched an e-commerce... read more

11 Apr 18 @ 11:00

WhatsApp is now firmly integrated into the everyday lives of millions of people across Europe. The question of where and when to have drinks or dinner is now often discussed... read more

11 Apr 18 @ 08:00

Cloud is changing the game for information security and compliance – especially when it comes to GDPR. However, Cloud apps are exposing sensitive business data – for example, 20% of... read more

11 Apr 18 @ 07:27

The ACH Network processed 21.5 billion transactions valued at more than $46.8 trillion in 2017, representing increases of 5.7%and 6.9%, respectively, over 2016, according to new data released by NACHA—The... read more

10 Apr 18 @ 14:32

Nearly 2.1 billion consumers worldwide will use a mobile wallet to make a payment or send money in 2019, up nearly 30% from 1.6 billion recorded at the end of 2017,... read more

10 Apr 18 @ 10:53

Delta and Sears have revealed within hours of each other that a data breach may have leaked the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of customers, as first reported... read more

10 Apr 18 @ 09:56

Verifone Systems and Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an investor group led by Francisco Partners... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 14:34

Crypto Aware has found that over $1.7 billion-worth of cryptocurrencies were lost to hacks and scams between 2011 and 2018. $670 million-worth of which were lost over the last three months.... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 14:21

The overall idea behind PSD2 open banking is not new, Yodlee and others have for a while aggregate accounts, and they have done this through a process known as screen... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:36

PayPal has reportedly filed a patent to speed up cryptocurrency transaction times by eliminating the verification time of the payment, However, some experts argue that this is already made possible... read more