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Android Pay to hit UK in March

01 Mar 16 @ 12:40

Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service, is set to launch in the UK in March. Android Pay, which was launched in September, lets consumers pay at store checkout counters by waving their Android... read more

TSYS deal for card issuers and merchants to combat fraud

01 Mar 16 @ 12:29

TSYS announced an agreement with Ethoca, a provider of collaboration-based technology that enables card issuers and e-commerce merchants to stop card-not-present fraud, recover lost revenue and eliminate chargebacks. Launched through... read more

MasterCard on exploding contactless payments and tokenisations

29 Feb 16 @ 13:43

PCM interviews Chris Kangas on how MasterCard technology platform is being used to support the exploding contactless market and innovations like tokenisation of payment card credentials on the MasterCard platform... read more

130 million active mobile money users recorded globally in 2015

29 Feb 16 @ 12:02

The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the... read more

Financial Stability Board to put FinTech under the lens

29 Feb 16 @ 11:03

Innovations in FinTech have been added to the list of things the Financial Stability Board worries about by Mark Carney, head of the international group of policymakers and regulators. The governor... read more

ATM Market expected to reach $21.9 billion by 2020

29 Feb 16 @ 10:27

According to new report by Allied Market Research titled “Global ATM Market – Size, Industry Analysis, Trends, Opportunities, Growth and Forecast, 2013-2020,” the global ATM market will reach $21.9 billion... read more

Banks should sell their stake in UK payments infrastructure

29 Feb 16 @ 09:28

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published the provisional findings of its market review into the ownership and competitiveness of the payments infrastructure that supports the payments systems; Bacs, Faster... read more

Card payments in Asia-Pacific set to double to $19.5 trillion by 2020

26 Feb 16 @ 13:24

The value of card payments in Asia-Pacific grew by 25% in 2014 to reach $9.0 trillion, accounting for just under half of the global total card expenditure. The level of... read more

2015 Breach Level Index

26 Feb 16 @ 13:13

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 1,673 data breaches led to 707 million data records being compromised worldwide during 2015. The Breach Level Index... read more

The future of carrier billing in Europe

26 Feb 16 @ 12:53

DIMOCO presented a brand new publication at the Mobile World Congress 2016. “The future of carrier billing in Europe” shows trends on the digital content and the carrier billing market.... read more

Live @ MWC: Homesend platform extends reach

25 Feb 16 @ 11:52

PCM interviews Stephen Doyle, CEO of Homesend to discuss what going on in the remittance market.

Live @ MWC: Citi hits $1 trillion transaction mark for mobile banking

24 Feb 16 @ 17:25

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions has processed over $1 Trillion mobile banking transaction globally, in client transaction value, on CitiDirect BE Mobile and CitiDirect BE Tablet since 2011. “The scalability of CitiDirect... read more

Live @ MWC: Global mobile proximity payment users to surpass 1 billion by 2019

24 Feb 16 @ 17:15

Mobile proximity payments are the smallest, but fastest growing segment for mobile payments, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s new m-payments forecast* shows that the total global user base... read more

Banks cede power to Apple Pay

24 Feb 16 @ 16:49

Alexander Silva is thinking less and less about his bank these days. He uses his Venmo app at least three times a month to pay his rent or reimburse a... read more

Live @ MWC: BIXOLON releases SPP-R200III Bluetooth and WiFi printer

24 Feb 16 @ 09:55

BIXOLON has announced the launch of the SPP-R200III 2-inch, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Printer with NFC for POS, Payments and Auto-ID markets. Supporting NFC tagging technology for Auto-Bluetooth pairing with Android, iO... read more

Live @ MWC: What’s hot for MasterCard in 2016

23 Feb 16 @ 16:46

PCM interviews James Anderson of MasterCard to discuss the hottest trends for 2016 – including MasterPass, wearable payments and MasterCard as a technology company.

Live @MWC: Prepare for m-commerce explosion

23 Feb 16 @ 16:13

The total global user base for m-commerce will increase from an estimated 689.99 million users in 2014 to 4.77 billion users in 2019, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Of the... read more

Live @ MWC: MasterCard ramp up “selfie pay” roll out

23 Feb 16 @ 12:12

MasterCard announced it will bring facial recognition payment services, “selfie pay” to the UK as part of a range of new services designed to improve identity verification for mobile phone... read more

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Mastercard and BVNK Launch Platform Linking Fiat and Stablecoin Payments

20 Oct 26 @ 09:06

Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more

Starling Builds UK-Sovereign AI Model With Nvidia and Civo

15 Oct 26 @ 19:41

Starling is developing a transactional foundation model with Nvidia that will be trained and hosted entirely within a UK sovereign cloud, as the digital bank lo... more

UK Moves to Open iPhone Contactless Payments to Apple Pay Rivals

22 Oct 26 @ 18:16

The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more