18 Jun 15 @ 15:47

Verifone, a global provider of payment and commerce enablement technology and services, has partnered with payworks to offer mPOS. The two companies provide a joint product package based on Verifone’s... read more

18 Jun 15 @ 15:44

Last year UK holidaymakers spent £26.4 billion using their cards overseas, making almost 14 transactions every second, according to figures from the UK Cards Association. For the first time annual... read more

18 Jun 15 @ 15:40

Oberthur Technologies, a global digital security solutions specialist, and Sweden’s ICA Banken have announced the launch of the first dual interface contactless payment cards in Sweden. ICA Banken and Oberthur... read more

18 Jun 15 @ 15:37

Small World FS, a European fintech payment services provider, has announced a partnership with Bharti Airtel, the Indian multinational telco services company. Small World FS customers will now be able... read more

17 Jun 15 @ 16:48

The landscape of domestic card schemes in Europe has changed dramatically following the implementation of the European Economic Area, the Payment Services Directive and the SEPA Cards Framework. The domestic card... read more

17 Jun 15 @ 16:30

About 600,000 payments that failed to enter the accounts of RBS customers overnight may not be completed until the end of the week, the bank has said. Payments of wages,... read more

17 Jun 15 @ 16:20

Blackstone and Carlyle Group have reportedly teamed up to make a $10 billion bid for cash machine vendor NCR, according to Reuters. Citing sources, Reuters says that Blackstone and Carlyle... read more

17 Jun 15 @ 16:07

MasterCard says it will offer tokenization services to merchants with apps, e-commerce, and recurring billing card-on-file programs, further protecting consumers and increasing convenience when storing cards in merchant databases. By expanding... read more

17 Jun 15 @ 10:56

According to a research conducted by Acuity Market Intelligence annual revenues from mobile biometrics embedded in smart mobile devices will spike from $1.6 billion in 2014 to $34.6 billion in... read more

16 Jun 15 @ 17:14

Financial services providers must better prepare for the threat that new technologies pose to their cyber security strategies or risk damaging customer and investor confidence. Cyber-crime within the financial services... read more

16 Jun 15 @ 11:05

It’s all too common for online retailers to avoid encouraging international business out of fear that the pros of a wider market, higher visibility and more sales will be offset... read more

16 Jun 15 @ 09:11

Nordea has signed an agreement to divest its merchant acquiring business Nordea Merchant Acquiring (NMA) to Nets Holding (Nets). The sale of the NMA business and the establishment of a partnership... read more

15 Jun 15 @ 16:14

ClearXchange, the US bank-owned digital payments network, is rolling out a system that enables real-time bank-to-bank transfers. ClearXchange acts as a clearing house for person-to-person online payments transfer, enabling customers to send... read more

15 Jun 15 @ 12:19

MasterCard has announced that Virgin Money has entered a long-term agreement to issue contactless-enabled MasterCard debit cards to the bank’s growing customer base. According to MasterCard, it has developed a strong... read more

15 Jun 15 @ 12:13

A new mobile identity whitepaper from Telstra reveals the majority of United Kingdom (UK) consumers using mobile banking applications want their mobile devices to instantly recognise them via biometrics, such as fingerprint... read more

12 Jun 15 @ 15:47

Trustwave has released the 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2014. The report discloses how much criminals can profit from malware attacks,... read more

12 Jun 15 @ 13:20

China UnionPay aims to become a global bank card company, Ge Huayong, chairman of China UnionPay and UnionPay International, said on Wednesday. Ge made the remarks after a speech at... read more

12 Jun 15 @ 13:06

Jumio has launched new research that benchmarks high street banks in their approach to digital account opening. The research report is based on interviews with eight leading high street banks which analyse... read more