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
11 Jun 15 @ 14:34
Miura Systems has closed a $16m fundraising round, led by London-based investmend syndicate, DFJ Esprit Secondaries (DFJES). The company has sold off a minority stake to speed-up growth in a... read more
11 Jun 15 @ 14:31
Bitreserve is now, according to a company statement, the world’s first zero-cost money transfer and currency exchange service. For the first time in history, the transfer, exchange and conversion of money... read more
11 Jun 15 @ 14:23
Ericsson has partnered with VeriFone Mobile Money, a retail enablement software suite that will be integrated with Ericsson Wallet Platform to expand payment options, including in emerging markets. The global partnership... read more
11 Jun 15 @ 12:30
US ATM maker Diebold is in talks about a possible acquisition of its troubled German rival Wincor Nixdorf , sources with knowledge of the negotiations say. Wincor is being advised by... read more
10 Jun 15 @ 12:11
At the risk of sounding like the new Weather Channel website, can we learn anything about EMV migration from Canada? After all, they have already upgraded or replaced more than 60,000... read more
10 Jun 15 @ 11:38
Judo Payments has confirmed its announcement as one of the payments platform providers selected to support Apple Pay when it launches in the UK in July. The integration of judo’s technology... read more
10 Jun 15 @ 09:20
Ixaris has announced the initial phase of its €4m Open Payments Ecosystem (OPE) project. The pioneering two year project is financially backed by EU Horizon2020 under the Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme... read more
10 Jun 15 @ 09:08
Smartphones are changing the way people make daily decisions. They are used not only to communicate or entertain. Mobile applications make different services accessible to customers regardless the place, time... read more
10 Jun 15 @ 08:56
The Bancorp and MeaWallet have agreed to a strategic partnership to deliver open loop mobile prepaid cards to The Bancorp card issuers in Europe, with the goal of launching the first ... read more
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
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
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