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Atom bank cites regulatory uncertainty – postpones current account launch

06 Jun 17 @ 16:57

Atom bank, the UK’s first app-based bank, is reported to be delaying the launch of consumer current accounts until at least 2018. Atoms CEO blames forthcoming regulations that make the UK’s personal banking market too... read more

UK e-commerce market reaching new heights – Infograph

06 Jun 17 @ 16:44

As the first and largest e-commerce market in Europe, the UK is showing no signs of slowing down. With a population of 65.14 million, 77% of whom are e-shoppers, and... read more

The role of analytics in the new open banking age

06 Jun 17 @ 12:12

What is a bank? The definition is in flux. As the regulatory-driven Open Banking agenda powers innovation and accelerates the fragmentation of a heavily concentrated banking market, incumbent banks must... read more

LG launches delayed mobile payment system LG Pay

05 Jun 17 @ 13:56

LG has managed to launch its heavily delayed mobile payment service dubbed LG Pay on Friday, June 2. The digital wallet will  compete with other wallets like Samsung Pay and Apple Pay. According... read more

New FIME tool qualified by EMVCo for Level 1 Testing

02 Jun 17 @ 12:23

FIME has completed its EMV Level 1 testing portfolio with the launch of EMVeriPOS. The new tool ensures that the communication between payment terminals and contact EMV chip cards is in... read more

Contactless card fraud is on the rise – UK rate hits 4,500%

02 Jun 17 @ 12:05

So, contactless card fraud hit £7m in the UK in 2016, up from £153k in 2014. Cue click-bait headlines about fraud soaring by almost 4,500%. When you dig a bit... read more

94 million Americans store their card information online

01 Jun 17 @ 16:36

Concerns about identify theft and credit card fraud aren’t stopping most Americans from storing their credit and debit card information online, a new report reveals. Two out of every three... read more

E-commerce fraud has decreased nearly 35% since 2016

01 Jun 17 @ 13:58

E-commerce fraud as a percent of sales dollars has been declining across the board, except for two industries, since the first quarter of 2016. However, fraud losses still account for... read more

Cybercrime will cost businesses over $2 trillion by 2019

01 Jun 17 @ 09:23

New research suggests that the rapid digitisation of consumers’ lives and enterprise records will increase the cost of cybercrime via data breaches to $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, increasing to... read more

Spanish banks launch blockchain network Red Lyra

31 May 17 @ 11:16

A multi sector consortium of Spanish companies which are pioneers in their different industries has created the Red Lyra, the first multi sector technology platform in the world based on... read more

Apple and Visa hit with Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit

31 May 17 @ 10:53

Apple and Visa have been hit with an Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit by Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, that alleges their mobile-payment partnership infringes four of its patents. In a... read more

First Data to acquire CardConnect for $750 million

31 May 17 @ 09:33

First Data has agreed to acquire smaller payments processing company CardConnect in a deal worth around $750 million, the companies said on Tuesday. First Data will pay $15.00 per share in cash for... read more

Visa upgrades Verified by Visa technology simplifying e-commerce

30 May 17 @ 11:21

Visa announced enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account.... read more

Canadian trial finds blockchain not ready for interbank payment system

30 May 17 @ 10:53

Just a week after the R3 group took a record funding round, the Bank of Canada has said distributed ledger technology, a new approach for processing transactions that is being... read more

UK payments market: Contactless cards set to overtake cash in 2018

25 May 17 @ 10:26

Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report.... read more

R3 CEV blockchain consortium raises $107 million from members

24 May 17 @ 17:04

Financial and technology companies led by Bank of America,SBI Holdings, HSBC, Intel and Temasek Holdings have invested $107 million in R3 CEV which runs a big bank consortium seeking to develop... read more

BBVA commercialises Open Banking APIs ahead of PSD2

24 May 17 @ 09:57

Spanish bank BBVA says it is open for business with its Open Banking programme and is making eight of its APIs commercially available for the first time ahead of the new PSD2... read more

Study shows UK high street banks falling behind challenger banks

23 May 17 @ 13:26

New research from FIS reveals that Britain’s challenger banks are outscoring their High Street counterparts in meeting their needs for digital payments, easy to understand and use products/services, innovative products/services and... read more

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Visa tests the foundations of agentic payments in Europe

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial inte... more

Credit’s next competitive frontier beyond top of wallet

12 Mar 26 @ 18:21

For years, the credit card industry has pursued a simple ambition: to become the card a consumer reaches for first. [caption id="attachment_52085" align="a... more

Visa and Fiserv partnership extends API-led acceptance platform

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more