28 Mar 18 @ 10:46

The latest cards research, Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2022, reveals that the number of card-accepting merchant outlets rose by an impressive 7 million in 2016 to 61... read more

28 Mar 18 @ 10:14

Poor password management – including the continued reliance on default, stolen, weak and non-unique passwords – is a key factor in more than 80% of hack-driven breaches, according to Verizon’s... read more

27 Mar 18 @ 10:54

Spanish police have arrested a Ukrainian national they suspect is the head of the infamous Carbanak cyber crime gang that stole more than €1bn from 100 financial institutions, often by... read more

27 Mar 18 @ 10:46

Instagram has introduced a direct-to-consumer e-commerce brand with the launch of Instagram Shopping in the UK, an update on the social media platform allows consumers to seamlessly purchase products directly... read more

26 Mar 18 @ 13:44

Payconiq, a mobile payments app supported by the majority of Belgian and Dutch banks, is to merge with Bancontact, the Belgian market leader in electronic payments. Created from a merger... read more

26 Mar 18 @ 12:37

On April 15, 2018, Visa’s new rules on chargebacks, called Visa Claims Resolution or VCR will come into effect. This new program has already gone live in Hong Kong and... read more

26 Mar 18 @ 09:59

UK headquartered banks are still planning for a March 2019 departure from the UE after European regulators declined to offer any formal assurances for how business can be conducted during... read more

23 Mar 18 @ 15:47

ASEAN financial institutions are focusing increasing investment on payments modernisation, with real-time payments capabilities serving as the first step to digital transformation across consumer and corporate services, per new benchmark... read more

23 Mar 18 @ 14:12

TransCrypt is using Telegram as a base to launch a new universal cryptocurrency payment system that acts within the interface of popular messaging platforms, allowing users to send or receive... read more

23 Mar 18 @ 12:13

Amazon is making a cross-border e-commerce transactions push for merchants on its website to sell goods into other countries, setting the stage for greater competition with rival marketplaces run by... read more

21 Mar 18 @ 07:21

Nearly all Chinese travellers (91%) would be more willing to shop and spend at overseas merchants that accepted Chinese mobile payments, according to a new Nielsen report, jointly released by... read more

20 Mar 18 @ 11:45

The Open Banking ecosystem can learn a lot from the smartphone operating system (OS) market. In particular, banks that are developing APIs in a bid to control the new ecosystem... read more

20 Mar 18 @ 11:35

Online research from Equifax, shows that using a debit or credit card with a PIN number is still the preferred method of payment for 42% of people in the UK.... read more

16 Mar 18 @ 16:26

There can be little doubt after this year’s Sibos that digital disruption drives new ecosystems, marketplaces and businesses; thus, changing the game for how banks connect to their clients and... read more

16 Mar 18 @ 16:13

In the 1982 sci-fi movie Blade Runner, Harrison Ford played Deckard, an ex-detective tasked to track down replicants — robots who were so lifelike that it was almost impossible to tell man from... read more

15 Mar 18 @ 20:21

Transaction laundering has quickly evolved into one of the payment industry’s most prominent and most difficult problems. Transaction laundering — also previously known as “undisclosed aggregation” or “factoring” — occurs... read more

15 Mar 18 @ 14:00

Dan Schulman, PayPal CEO has said that mobile is going to “fundamentally redefine” the retail industry and change the way consumers think about the Check out. “Already, it’s starting to... read more

14 Mar 18 @ 15:25

That scammers are buying and selling your stolen personal info on the dark web and it’s not just credit card details is not new. However, with hacked dating profiles, streaming... read more