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
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
20 Oct 26 @ 09:06
Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more
29 Oct 26 @ 19:39
Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more
22 Oct 26 @ 18:16
The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more