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Target agrees $67 million for Visa data breach

19 Aug 15 @ 11:41

Target has reached a $67m agreement with Visa over the massive data breach of customers’ payment data during the 2013 holiday shopping season that raised serious questions about the company’s data... read more

Bitnet and PAY.ON strategic partnership to enable simplified Bitcoin acceptance

19 Aug 15 @ 11:19

Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and PAY.ON have entered a strategic partnership that will enable payment service providers globally to offer bitcoin as a payment method via PAY.ON’s RESTful API-based payment... read more

Visa and QIWI mass launch of contactless phone payments

19 Aug 15 @ 11:11

QIWI and Visa have implemented a new stage of their strategic partnership, which has resulted in integration of Visa payWave’s contactless technology into Visa QIWI Wallet. Now e-wallet customers can pay using... read more

Are fingerprints the new passwords?

18 Aug 15 @ 17:15

Ever since Apple introduced TouchID for iPhones, more and more smartphones feature fingerprint scanners. And that has some security researchers worried. “If you leak a password, you can just change it;... read more

US retailers to begin public tests of CurrentC

18 Aug 15 @ 14:31

MCX, three years after deciding to enter the mobile payment market with CurrentC, a group of large retailers is finally doing it. Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a partnership between large... read more

Apple Pay fights over fees with big Australian banks

18 Aug 15 @ 13:25

According to Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s largest banks are fighting with Apple, as it tries to muscle Apple Pay into the hotly contested payments market. According to sources, fees are a big sticking... read more

As smartphones evolve into wallets manufacturers forget about the basics

18 Aug 15 @ 11:50

Smartphones have evolved to the point where they are now starting to replace our purses and wallets, yet almost two thirds (62%) of mobile users think they are evolving so... read more

US Debit interchange rates falling

17 Aug 15 @ 17:12

A new study by Pulse examined transactions made from 2004 to 2014 from more than 70 debit issuers involving 147 million debit cards and approximately 68,000 ATMs. Debit issuers received... read more

Research reveals little impact from mobile payments on cash use

17 Aug 15 @ 16:54

The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) has released a new research paper, “US Mobile Payments: Do They Disrupt Cash?” which examines the impact of mobile payments on the growth of cash. Despite... read more

European Issuers can thrive in a tokenisation enabled ecosystem

17 Aug 15 @ 16:41

TSYS has announced the publication of a new white paper titled “How European Issuers Can Thrive in an Ecosystem Defined by Tokenisation-Enabled NFC Payments.” The white paper explains that the recent... read more

Samsung Pay teams with card schemes and banks for launch

14 Aug 15 @ 15:41

Tech giant Samsung will launch its mobile payments service Samsung Pay in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and major banks lining up for a US launch in... read more

PayPal Here enables SMEs to take contactless payments

14 Aug 15 @ 15:38

PayPal is now selling NFC-enabled card readers on its website aimed at small businesses, enabling them to accept contactless payments. The PayPal Here card reader costs £79.95 and is followed... read more

EVO and Raiffeisenbank form card acceptance alliance

14 Aug 15 @ 15:35

Global acquirer and payment service provider EVO Payments International has formed a strategic alliance with pan-European banking group Raiffeisenbank for card acceptance in the Czech Republic. As a result of... read more

Coinify acquires digital currency rival Coinzone

13 Aug 15 @ 17:00

Danish digital currency processor Coinify has acquired Dutch rival processor Coinzone in order to create a pan-European provider of payment processing for online merchants and payment service providers. The deal... read more

CBA error double-charges transactions

13 Aug 15 @ 16:57

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has apologised to its customers following a system error that saw customers being double-charged for debit, credit and mobile payments over a six-day period. The... read more

BlackBerry and PayPal team up for P2P payments

13 Aug 15 @ 16:53

BlackBerry has teamed up with e-commerce giant PayPal for a trial that lets BBM users in Canada send and receive money through its messaging service. Upon connecting their PayPal account,... read more

Mobile catching up on branches in US

12 Aug 15 @ 17:31

The mobile channel is catching up with the internet and branch as the most popular banking channel for US consumers, according to an American Bankers Association (ABA) survey. The ABA... read more

Paym reaches £70 million mark

12 Aug 15 @ 17:28

UK person-to-person mobile payments service Paym has recorded more than three-quarters of a million transactions in the first half of 2015. Paym lets users make payments from within their banking... read more

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Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more

Banks to reinforce cyber defences as AI changes the threat model

22 Apr 26 @ 19:36

Banks are hardening their cyber defences as artificial intelligence begins to alter the economics of digital attacks. For financial institutions, the challenge ... more

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from t... more