03 Nov 17 @ 15:27
The Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey: 2017 Report is the fifth edition of this annual study which seeks to understand and measure the state of mobile payments and mobile channel... read more
03 Nov 17 @ 11:44
The UK will be the world’s third biggest market for e-commerce in 2021, growing by an average of almost 10% over the next five years according to new data. In... read more
02 Nov 17 @ 17:08
Orange has launched its own mobile bank, Orange Bank, aiming to win 25% of France’s online banking market by capitalizing on the rising use of smartphones to steal share from established... read more
02 Nov 17 @ 16:59
Three of Australia’s largest banks, The Commonwealth Bank(CBA), National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac have partnered to create a new mobile P2P payments platform, named Beem. In the wake of their battle with... read more
02 Nov 17 @ 16:34
Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments... read more
01 Nov 17 @ 13:39
Powered payment cards become powered when they take on interactive form factors such as biometric sensors and Dynamic Code Verification (DCV). In total, 213 million powered payment cards are forecasted to... read more
01 Nov 17 @ 10:38
Google has made several announcements around Google Tez, the payments app that the search giant had launched in India last month. Based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the NPCI’s payments platform for the... read more
01 Nov 17 @ 09:18
While payments might seem ‘instant’ to those engaged in the transaction, the reality is, apart from cash, they are generally not. Real time clearing is what happens when you hand... read more
31 Oct 17 @ 14:50
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware, CryptoShuffler Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard. Criminals are targeting... read more
31 Oct 17 @ 10:15
A new study has found the countries among the 20 largest economies who are adapting quickest to using cashless systems like phones and contactless cards – revealing that Canada narrowly... read more
31 Oct 17 @ 09:50
The global e-commerce market continues to grow rapidly, and is predicted to be worth $2.4 trillion by 2019. As a result, the market continues to attract not merely ever-greater levels... read more
30 Oct 17 @ 12:15
Mastercard says that it will open up access to its in house blockchain technology platform via an application programming interface (API) which will be made available to developers at banks... read more
30 Oct 17 @ 11:28
The fifth annual cross-border e-commerce research report has been published in collaboration with Juniper Research and reveals cross-border e-commerce trends in 2017. The paper includes the results of a global survey of... read more
30 Oct 17 @ 09:55
Almost half (49%) of global financial services organisations have experienced a data breach in the past, according to the 2017 Data Threat Report. The report also reveals 21% have been... read more
24 Oct 17 @ 11:27
Google has launched Pay with Google, making it easier for people to pay on their Android devices, using any card they have on file with the firm’s various services, such as... read more
23 Oct 17 @ 11:16
Verizon recently released its annual Payment Security Report. And for retailers, the report highlighted significant areas for improvement in encrypting data, securing transmitted retail payment data, and authentication. This should serve as... read more
23 Oct 17 @ 11:05
eCurrency Mint Limited says that it has partnered with PayPro Indonesia to provide eCurrency’s digital fiat currency (DFC) solution in Indonesia. Through eCurrency’s solution, PayPro’s e-money product delivers a cryptographically protected, secure instrument... read more
20 Oct 17 @ 09:33
Digital payments are growing rapidly in Asia, fuelled by increasing smartphone ownership and improving access to the internet. An increasing array of solutions such as digital wallets, mobile payment apps... read more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
18 May 26 @ 17:07
The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant... more
31 May 26 @ 12:59
The debate around European payments sovereignty has intensified significantly over the past two years. Policymakers, regulators and financial institutions acros... more