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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

05 Oct 15 @ 16:39

A new simpler way to guarantee settlement between banks of payments made through Faster Payments, the UK’s 24/7 real-time payments service, has been introduced as part of changes announced today... read more

05 Oct 15 @ 15:57

The European Payments Council (EPC) has announced that it is hosting a stakeholders workshop focused on Person-to-Person (P2P) mobile payments on 10 December. Payment stakeholders (such as payment service providers, technical... read more

05 Oct 15 @ 15:46

The UK financial services industry was responsible for stopping a total of £910 million worth of attempted card, cheque and online and telephone banking fraud in the first half of 2015,... read more