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A million new ATMs installed in five years

12 Oct 15 @ 12:06

The worldwide ATM installed base grew 7% in 2014, to reach three million units, according to RBR’s newly published Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2020 report. This comes just... read more

Regulators move to halt global payments fragmentation

12 Oct 15 @ 07:22

Central bank regulators have proposed changes to stop the global payments system from fragmentation as banks scale back cross-border networks, blaming the cost of new regulation. Banks have long maintained links with other... read more

Concerns continue amid US EMV liability shift

12 Oct 15 @ 07:21

Policy makers in the US voiced concerns at a meeting last week that credit card networks and issuers have failed to effectively explain the implications of the Oct. 1 EMV liability shift... read more

Thwarting advanced threats with trusted crypto – White Paper

09 Oct 15 @ 12:19

The dangers posed by advanced targeted attacks are real. Enterprises have come up against the limitations of approaches such as intrusion detection and signature-based malware detection. One promising avenue to... read more

Barclays confirms 2016 Apple Pay launch

09 Oct 15 @ 10:48

Barclays has confirmed it will rollout Apple Pay in 2016. Signalling the first time the bank has given a firm date for the launch for the mobile payments service. In an... read more

Success in the mobile payment space

09 Oct 15 @ 10:39

Despite significant developments, especially in developed markets, no clear model or winner has been established yet for mobile payment. Hence, all players are still in a position to participate, as... read more

Cyber attacks: A Cloud Security Report

09 Oct 15 @ 10:26

Cyber attacks are on the rise. Companies both large and small are targeted daily by hackers seeking valuable data to monetize in the cyber underground. Recent reports show that 87% of... read more

China launches cross-border interbank payment system

08 Oct 15 @ 13:55

China’s central bank has launched the China International Payment System (CIPs), a worldwide  interbank payment system and superhighway for the yuan to facilitate trade settlement and investment dominated in the yuan. CIPS... read more

EU agrees to adopt revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2)

08 Oct 15 @ 12:52

The European Parliament has agreed to the European Commission revised Directive on Payment Services or the so called  Payments Services Directive (PSD2). This new law, proposed by the European Commission... read more

VC investment in UK FinTech reaches record highs

08 Oct 15 @ 12:38

VC investment into the UK’s technology and FinTech sector has reached a record high with London-based firms bagging 75% of the $2.2 billion raised since the beginning of this year. Data from London & Partners, the Mayor... read more

Banks struggle with cross-jurisdictional regulatory compliance

08 Oct 15 @ 12:15

Fenergo, a provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for institutional banks, has published key findings from new research commissioned from the Aite Group which suggests that financial institutions are struggling to... read more

Samsung Pay on defensive after mobile payments hack

08 Oct 15 @ 09:44

Samsung has been forced to defend Samsung Pay users – its new mobile payment system – after a hacking attack on the subsidiary that built its technology. In a statement that followed a New York... read more

World Payments Report 2015

07 Oct 15 @ 14:02

Non-cash payment volumes are expected to continue on a high growth trajectory in 2014, according to the World Payments Report 2015 from Capgemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). They are... read more

MasterCard Identity Check

07 Oct 15 @ 13:01

MasterCard has introduced MasterCard Identity Check, a suite of technology solutions that leverage advanced technologies to prove a consumer’s identity and further simplify the online shopping experience. Existing methods to prove... read more

JCB starts trials of payment by palm vein authentication

07 Oct 15 @ 10:34

JCB will be conducting a trial of payment using palm vein authentication in corporation with Fujitsu  and Fujitsu Frontech. The trial will be held at the JCB World Conference in... read more

The future is biometric, but privacy fears must be confronted

07 Oct 15 @ 09:38

Over the summer, Mobey Forum’s Biometric and Security Workgroup, set up to explore opportunities and use cases for biometric authentication in mobile money, met with The Biometric Institute and the... read more

Payments at the speed of change

06 Oct 15 @ 16:55

In this supplement, in association with ACI, we review some of the issues that banks and merchants are addressing, to take advantage of the opportunities that arise from payments at the speed of change.

EBA Clearing RFP for pan-European instant payments

06 Oct 15 @ 15:42

The bank-owned provider of several key payments infrastructures in Europe, EBA Clearing, has launched an RFP for a technical solution provider. The RFP is the next phase in its offering of a... read more

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Swift launches new framework for cross-border payments

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

SWIFT has introduced a new international payments framework aimed at significantly improving the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border retail t... 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 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