01 May 15 @ 12:19

Finally, some good news for CurrentC! As the new CEO, Brian Mooney, formerly CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services, one of the largest US merchant payment acquirers, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a... read more

01 May 15 @ 11:06

Tokenization is a technology that allows for more secure payments by substituting sensitive consumer account data for a random number that is unique to each transaction – a digital token.... read more

30 Apr 15 @ 12:39

PayPal says it has launched one touch payments in a move to simplify and accelerate their payment service and deal with the large number of incomplete transactions. The payment service, called One Touch... read more

30 Apr 15 @ 10:39

Malawi says it has taken a significant step towards creating a digital payments ecosystem in order to address poverty and drive inclusive growth. An event organized by the Government of Malawi... read more

30 Apr 15 @ 10:27

Coinbase, the world’s most well-funded bitcoin company, has opened its exchange and online wallet in the UK, targeting British enthusiasm for the digital currency as it eyes international expansion. The... read more

29 Apr 15 @ 10:45

Cyber security is a precondition to promoting innovation also in the area of payments. The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is a centre of expertise for... read more

29 Apr 15 @ 10:29

Should payments be as quick as emails or messaging with smartphone apps? Should funds be transferred instantly from sender to receiver around the clock? Many actors are paying more attention... read more

29 Apr 15 @ 10:10

London is the country’s identity theft capital, with significantly higher rates than anywhere else in the UK. The statistics are based on the number of fraudulent applications across financial products... read more

29 Apr 15 @ 09:49

Deutsche bank has announced plans to shutter 200 branches and invest an additional €1 billion over the next three-to-five years to create “a more digital bank”. As part of a... read more

28 Apr 15 @ 16:30

Discover has announced an agreement with Apple that will allow Discover card holders in the US to make contactless payments in participating stores through Apple Pay. In addition to paying in stores with... read more

28 Apr 15 @ 12:37

In more bad news for MCX, Best Buy customers can now use Apple Pay to buy electronics online, with the physical stores to follow later this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook... read more

28 Apr 15 @ 12:16

Digital-only banks will struggle with UK banking customers when they launch this year, with only one in eight (13%) consumers claiming that they plan to switch to an account with a digital-only... read more

27 Apr 15 @ 16:57

A new payments survey of more than 1,100 executives representing leading banks, retailers and billing organizations across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA revealed that although 80% of them understand they... read more

24 Apr 15 @ 10:36

The total value of the digital currency Bitcoin is now approximately $3.4 billion, and many companies and investors are working to prove that the technology can make financial services cheaper... read more

23 Apr 15 @ 14:29

Shares in Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. climbed the most since October after China’s government indicated it plans to end a monopoly in bank-card clearing. Visa gained 4.1% to close... read more

23 Apr 15 @ 13:11

A new research paper by SWIFT assesses the global real-time retail payments systems (RT-RPS) landscape, provides analysis on the key drivers and trends, and identifies the different approaches, barriers to... read more

23 Apr 15 @ 12:05

With a crucial deadline looming in 2015, the US payments industry will have only partially converted to the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip card standard by the end of that year. Indeed,... read more

22 Apr 15 @ 12:02

For the second year in a row, improvement in global retail bank customer experience levels has stalled with a decline of less than 1% leaving banks challenged to drive top-line growth,... read more