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Charge Anywhere admits security breach

15 Dec 14 @ 12:15

It has been revealed that for the last five years, hackers have been using a banking malware to siphon unencrypted credit/debit card information from the computer networks of Charge Anywhere, an... read more

US banks partners Payfone for mobile authentication

15 Dec 14 @ 10:43

Payfone a mobile authentication startup,  is working with US financial institutions to introduce technology that utilises the same security standards applied by wireless operators to identify their customers as they... read more

Lloyds mobile cheque deposit tech

15 Dec 14 @ 10:32

Lloyds Bank is to roll-out mobile cheque deposit technology with a select group of commercial customers. The pilot trial will enable customers to take a photo of the cheque using their mobile... read more

Mobile commerce booming in China

15 Dec 14 @ 10:27

Online shopping via mobile phones has become the main way Chinese people spend their money, with a large number of those living in rural areas jumping on the mobile commerce bandwagon,... read more

Hackers will target Apple Pay and ATMs in 2015

12 Dec 14 @ 11:05

Apple Pay and ATMs are included on Woburn, Mass.-based data-security services provider Kaspersky Lab Inc.’s newly released list of nine security predictions for 2015. The top targets will be banks, which... read more

Mobile payments trends in 2015?

12 Dec 14 @ 09:00

With Apple leading the market, banks losing some control, and Bitcoin blockchain used to design new financial products, it looks like an exciting year ahead for the mobile payments space.... read more

High value contactless payments arrive in the UK

11 Dec 14 @ 13:56

A new service that lets NFC phone users enter their PIN on their mobile device to confirm a high value transaction is making it possible for UK consumers to make... read more

The 10 biggest issues in e-payments

11 Dec 14 @ 12:31

As we head toward the close, 2014 seemed to be the year of the dinosaur— as in the outmoded creature whose days were ended in the flash of a mighty asteroid strike.... read more

USA: EMV at the ATM

10 Dec 14 @ 11:09

Vast numbers of hours, experts and resources have been devoted to the implementation of the EMV standard for credit and debit cards in the United States. As the smoke begins... read more

Russian banks begin testing national payment system

09 Dec 14 @ 16:18

According to local sources, Russia’s Rossiya and SMP banks, which fell under Western sanctions, are among the eight lenders that will start testing the country’s new national payment system on... read more

European payment firms investment hits record levels

09 Dec 14 @ 12:38

It has been disclosed that venture capital investment in European payment companies is surpassing dotcom boom levels, boosted by the fast take-up of digital technologies and shifts in consumer behaviour.... read more

Starbucks testing mobile ordering and payment

09 Dec 14 @ 12:10

The coffee chain Starbucks processes around 47 million transactions each week in its 12,000 US stores, news.yahoo.com reports. According to the source, 7 million of those purchases (around 15%) are made... read more

Sixdots goes live with multiple banks in Belgium

09 Dec 14 @ 10:03

9 banks representing 80% of the Belgian market can now make use of Sixdots, a mobile wallet service that uses a combination of QR codes and a 6-digit PIN to make... read more

ECB to address instant payments in euro

09 Dec 14 @ 09:56

In its second meeting, on 1 December 2014, the Euro Retail Payments Board (ERPB), a multi-stakeholder group chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB), decided to step up work on the... read more

Contactless card payments to take off this Christmas

09 Dec 14 @ 09:46

PaymentsCM (PCM) predicts that contactless card payments in the UK this Christmas will exceed £500 million with over 250,000 transactions in December. The increase in contactless users has had a... read more

Barclays extends cheque imaging pilot

08 Dec 14 @ 17:03

Barclays is giving 1 million customers the ability to deposit cheques remotely by taking photographs with their phones – cheque imaging. Barclays has been piloting the service with a few... read more

Ripple plug into Earthport payment hub

08 Dec 14 @ 16:51

Ripple Labs is to plug its real-time settlement protocol into the Earthport payment hub, opening new channels to market for the open source transaction technology. Under the partnership, Earthport’s customers... read more

Faster Payments sets out new access model vision

08 Dec 14 @ 16:26

The UK’s Faster Payments scheme, now in its sixth year since Faster Payments were launched as a near real time, world-class payment clearing system. The service has been a great success; annualised growth... read more

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Revolut eyes an IPO, but the valuation story is the real headline

21 Apr 26 @ 14:35

Revolut is beginning to sound more like a future public market heavyweight than a fast-growing European fintech. Chief executive Nik Storonsky has said the com... more

Banks to reinforce cyber defences as AI changes the threat model

22 Apr 26 @ 19:36

Banks are hardening their cyber defences as artificial intelligence begins to alter the economics of digital attacks. For financial institutions, the challenge ... more

Emerging markets accelerate the shift to cashless payments

30 Apr 26 @ 18:03

Cashless payments are becoming an increasingly important marker of financial modernisation across emerging market and developing economies, with new data from t... more