30 Oct 14 @ 16:48

BBVA Compass has opened up its payments platform to Dwolla, enabling customers to make real-time payments through the Iowa startup’s payments network. The deal makes BBVA Compass the largest bank to... read more

30 Oct 14 @ 16:43

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is to explore the potential benefits of blockchain technology, which underpins bitcoin, for use in the wider financial services industry, according to the regulator’s chief executive. At the... read more

30 Oct 14 @ 12:40

40% of North American consumers have used their smartphones to make a mobile payment at a merchant location, according to an Accenture survey of 4,000 consumers in the US and Canada,... read more

30 Oct 14 @ 12:14

Visa and MasterCard have welcomed China’s plans to open up its market for clearing domestic payment card transactions, as they stand to gain access to a growing market worth more than $1... read more

30 Oct 14 @ 12:07

After several days of questions as to why the pharmacies Rite Aid and CVS blocked Apple pay in their stores after initially accepting it, executives from the Merchant Consumer Exchange... read more

29 Oct 14 @ 12:03

The European Central Bank (ECB) has flexed its muscles in the payment systems oversight area for the first time through the exercise of new powers by identifying 4 payment systems that... read more

29 Oct 14 @ 11:01

Despite conflicting priorities and the economic downturn, banks around the world are still increasing their investments in innovation. These key findings are part of Innovation in Retail Banking 2014, the... read more

29 Oct 14 @ 10:36

Much has been made of the boom in Europe’s financial technology sector in 2014. And, as our analysis of the publicly disclosed deals and investors in the fintech sector shows... read more

28 Oct 14 @ 13:51

Visa Europe says that V.me is now in pilot with Member banks in Norway, Sweden, Italy and Germany, taking the number of markets live or in pilot across Europe to 9.... read more

28 Oct 14 @ 12:04

MyBank went live with MyBank Mandates for SEPA Core Direct Debits today following the successful conclusion of the first Joining Window. Financial institutions and service providers are in the process... read more

28 Oct 14 @ 09:16

Timothy Cook, Apple CEO, has revealed that 1 million credit cards were activated on Apple Pay in the first three days that the mobile wallet went live, the New York Times... read more

27 Oct 14 @ 17:02

Swiping credit cards or using payment systems like Apple Pay at stores could become much safer thanks to a new Intel system, which could also make it easier for retailers... read more

27 Oct 14 @ 12:44

If it was easy, everyone would do it…or Google Wallet would already be a roaring success. However, it isn’t, and Apple Pay is now discovering its entry into the payments... read more

24 Oct 14 @ 15:51

European merchants need to pay more attention to securing electronic payments, warns the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), in a stark warning over cyber attack. This was one of... read more

24 Oct 14 @ 15:45

The payments industry is approaching an inflection point with respect to whether the mobile wallet and mobile payments could become a viable every day payment tool. More and more consumers are... read more

24 Oct 14 @ 15:38

In a bid to speed up US EMV adoption in the wake of recent payment card breaches at retailers, President Obama has signed an executive order directing government agencies to shift to... read more

23 Oct 14 @ 16:58

The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has launched an independent review into the worst disruption of Britain’s banking payment system, the Chaps payment system, in seven years. The BoE said part of its real-time gross settlement... read more

23 Oct 14 @ 11:39

Adyen has announced its latest global Mobile Payments Index, which covers the period of July through to September 2014. The Mobile Payments Index, which captures data from web-based transactions across... read more