18 Mar 15 @ 10:27

Rakuten has announced that it plans to enable customers to choose bitcoin as a payment option by integrating Bitnet’s payment processing platform on a number of its marketplaces. The Internet services giant... read more

18 Mar 15 @ 10:20

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the number of active Bitcoin users worldwide will reach 4.7 million by the end of 2019, up from just over 1.3... read more

18 Mar 15 @ 10:02

Misys has unveiled what it claims to be the first banking app prototype for the Apple Watch. Developed by a team at Misys Labs, the company said the technology would... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:07

Travellers on the London public transport network used their contactless payment cards to pay for more than a million journeys on a single day last week. Transport for London (TfL),... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:04

Chinese e-commerce player Alibaba is developing facial recognition technology enabling mobile shoppers to replace their passwords with photos of their faces. According to Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, such biometric technology... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:02

Payleven, a European mPOS specialist, has announced the launch of its 11th market in the Irish Republic. Irish business owners can accept card payments without fixed costs, contractual obligations or... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:00

Canada’s TD Bank Group has announced a redesign of its popular TD app for Android and iPhone smartphones, in order to create a more intuitive, simplified experience for customers. The... read more

16 Mar 15 @ 16:21

The recent Card Fraud Report from Payments Cards & Mobile and Alaric, an NCR business, highlights the way that card fraud is always changing. In this webinar, David Divitt from... read more

16 Mar 15 @ 12:59

PayPal says that its operation in Nigeria is its second largest market in Africa. Malvina Goldfeld, Head of business development, sub-Saharan Africa at PayPal told ITWeb Africa that South Africa remains... read more

16 Mar 15 @ 12:28

IBM is rumoured to be considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the blockchain, to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person... read more

16 Mar 15 @ 12:10

The PPRO Group, will collaborate in Europe with Alipay to offer new payment options for online shoppers of AliExpress, a global online marketplace for consumers to buy directly from Chinese... read more

13 Mar 15 @ 12:18

Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) have launched its Apple Pay Tracker, a longitudinal study that will monitor adoption and usage of the mobile wallet throughout 2015. The study, comprising bimonthly surveys of... read more

13 Mar 15 @ 11:59

Experian has revealed that fraud detection rates have increased during the past year*, with around 50 frauds now being detected per 10,000 cases during Q4 2014 – compared to 40 frauds detected... read more

12 Mar 15 @ 11:59

The way we pay for everything is changing, with more digital transactions than ever before. But how close are we to the tipping point? This weekend saw the end of... read more

12 Mar 15 @ 11:00

We all instinctively know that mobile is a key channel for any number of things: from communications to gaming, on to navigation through to payments. The smartphone, heralded by the... read more

12 Mar 15 @ 10:24

Card Fraud Report 2015, in association with Alaric NCR, aims to give some insight into how card fraud is perpetrated in the selected regions, what are the drivers for this fraud, the defence mechanisms that the various countries can select to combat card fraud and the figures that surround the various types of card fraud.

11 Mar 15 @ 17:36

The rush to implement new digital technologies has overtaken regulatory worries as the highest priority for global bank executives, according to a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. The... read more

11 Mar 15 @ 17:33

Four out of five global retailers and other merchants failed interim tests to determine whether they are in compliance with payment card data security standards (PCI DSS), putting them at... read more