04 Mar 15 @ 09:31

October 2015 marks a major milestone in the US payment industry’s migration to EMV as the liability shift comes into effect. After the liability shift, the party on a card... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 15:07

The Government of Egypt, represented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and MasterCard announced the details of a recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will aim to extend financial... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 10:35

PayPal has agreed to buy Paydiant. In an announcement on the PayPal website, Dan Schulman, PayPal President and CEO, said: “Today, I am excited to announce that we agreed to acquire... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 10:25

Ingenico has launched the RP170c, an audio jack-based mPOS dongle that can accept payments made by mobile phone. The RP170c offers support for both NFC/contactless and mag-stripe payments via a 3.5mm standard audio... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 11:49

Samsung has launched its latest flagship devices at Mobile World Congress, with its Galaxy S6 joined by Galaxy S6 edge – a smartphone with a curved display on both sides. While... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 10:22

The Board of SIA, meeting under the chairmanship of Giuliano Asperti, has approved the Financial Statement at 31 December 2014. The results achieved by SIA show a further improvement after... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 10:08

Accenture reported in ‘The Boom in Global Fintech Investment’ that London “has become the Fintech capital of Europe. Since 2004, the lion’s share of Europe’s Fintech deals and financing have... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 09:40

Proxama has unveiled details of its new end-to-end mobile proximity marketing and payments proposition following the acquisition of Aconite Technology last year. Proxama’s new Digital Payments Division will be led by... read more

02 Mar 15 @ 09:35

ValidSoft with its partner FICO, has launched the ValidSoft Device Trust solution with another major UK retail bank. The new client, unnamed for security reasons, represents the largest UK deployment... read more

27 Feb 15 @ 11:49

The UK is set to make more than a quarter (28.6%) of all online purchases through mobile devices in 2015, according to an international study commissioned by RetailMeNot. The study, carried... read more

27 Feb 15 @ 11:19

Google is rumoured to be launching a payments API that will enable third party developers to embed in-store and in-app payments within their apps, according to press reports. Citing a source,... read more

27 Feb 15 @ 10:49

Telco Millicom has announced that its Tigo Pesa service in Tanzania will be the first in Africa able to transact with customers of all the country’s other mobile money services, following... read more

27 Feb 15 @ 10:19

FIME and leading player in cybersecurity, Thales have announced the launch of a joint offering for the host card emulation (HCE) mobile services market. The partners have combined expertise to... read more

27 Feb 15 @ 10:16

The Bank of England says that it is considering issuing its own digital currency in the future in the same way that it issues bank notes. A research paper from... read more

26 Feb 15 @ 12:36

Target has so far booked $162 million in expenses related to the data breach it suffered in late 2013 which saw thieves steal the card details of tens of millions... read more

25 Feb 15 @ 14:24

We are constantly reminded by news stories how complex it can be to secure mobile banking and payments apps. A recent study* has found that 11% percent of Android banking... read more

25 Feb 15 @ 09:54

In a UK first, Barclays has announced it will be the first British bank to allow people to pay each other and small businesses via Twitter payments using just their Twitter handle.... read more

25 Feb 15 @ 09:30

The SIM card is so secure that in the case revealed recently, even intelligence services preferred to steal the key rather than attack the SIM card. The secure authentication of... read more