27 Jan 15 @ 11:02

The European Payments Council (EPC), representing the European banking industry in relation to payments, today published a further iteration of the SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) Rulebooks, i.e. the SDD Core... read more

26 Jan 15 @ 11:21

yStats.com has published a new report about B2C e-commerce market in the four top emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. The “BRIC B2C e-commerce Markets” report reveals that the... read more

23 Jan 15 @ 11:34

As the industry continues its trend toward smart terminals with integrated software for payments and other services, criminals are likewise stepping up their efforts to secure a new treasure chest of data... read more

23 Jan 15 @ 10:34

With only nine months until the EMV migration deadline, retail and technology professionals are still unprepared, according to a recent survey by ACI Worldwide. The survey of 200 retail industry... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 14:16

Following the release of the final compromise text for the proposed Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (the MIF Regulation) on 19 January 2015, European countries have finally... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 13:21

RiskIQ, the company that enables organizations to maintain the integrity of their brands on websites and mobile app stores, has announced research findings on the prevalence of suspicious mobile banking apps.... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 12:07

In an unsurprising move, Monitise, the UK mobile payments company, has issued its third revenue warning in a year and appointed advisers to consider a sale of the business, as it... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 09:00

In October 2014, W3C, the World Wide Web standards organization, announced plans to develop a world-wide payments standard for internet payments. The initiative is an interesting project to monitor since... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 15:23

Amazon has quietly announced that it is withdrawing from the mobile payments scene and has removed its mobile wallet from the various app stores after just six months. The limited... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 10:00

The Supreme Court handed US banks a victory as it declined to consider a challenge by a group of retailers to Federal Reserve regulations setting fees for processing debit-card transactions,... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:50

During 2014 we saw several occasions of significant political figures from the UK having a bitcoin friendly stance – is this all set to change in 2015. UK Shadow Minister Chi Onwurah and Chancellor of... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:38

The impact of theft on UK retailers has reached its highest level in a decade according to this year’s BRC Retail Crime Survey. The average value of each theft in-store... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:11

The deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa will significantly extend the reach of the South African operator’s services. The card... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:00

Diners Club International, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, and The Logic Group, announced a signed agreement that will grow Discover and... read more

20 Jan 15 @ 14:16

16 to 24 year old consumers in the UK have the greatest appetite for biometric security measures and the greatest need to use them in place of traditional authentication such... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 10:08

Starbucks has launched its mobile payment app in Germany and France to enable its customers to make payments using a mobile version of their Starbucks card. The app is the... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:54

PayPal has joined forces with Microsoft to bring its PayPal Here hardware card readers to Windows devices, as well as develop EMV-compliant readers. The collaboration is aimed at small and... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:20

It has emerged over the weekend that Google is leading talks to acquire Softcard, the troubled mobile payments company that is being eyed by a number of potential suitors, said people familiar... read more