19 Dec 14 @ 16:21

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) has announced the addition of Host Card Emulation to the RBC Mobile app, allowing Canadians to pay with most Android mobile phones without worrying about... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 15:40

ITG Research has released  figures which show that iPhone users, via Apple Pay, were responsible for 1% of digital payment dollars spent in the month of November. The ITG Mobile Payments report, which... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 12:05

21 million British consumers say they will switch banks to access mobile payments, as anticipation for new ways to pay builds, according to new research from Zapp. 44% of consumers plan... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 11:29

Suddenly the key EU’s stakeholders (ECB/EC) are talking again about technical payments interoperability and new payments networks.  Many may ask why, for they have struggled over 10 years to fully... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 09:03

Consumers trust banks far more than they do companies like Google, Apple and Amazon to protect their card details and personal financial information, according to research by Bizrate Insights. Bizrate... read more

18 Dec 14 @ 12:41

Dutch researchers claim to have enabled the power of quantum mechanics in a way that could be used to make card fraud a thing of the past. In a paper posted... read more

18 Dec 14 @ 11:33

Interchange fees to process debit and credit card transactions are to be capped under an EU law that attempts to wrap-up a protracted battle with payment groups such as Visa... read more

17 Dec 14 @ 14:59

MBNA has, in partnership with MasterCard, launched a trial of a digital wallet. Once the trial is complete in early 2015, the MBNA Wallet could be quickly rolled out to... read more

17 Dec 14 @ 14:45

A new report by Allied Market Research predicts that the global ATM market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.6% between 2014 and 2020, to a total of... read more

17 Dec 14 @ 14:19

Christmas 2014 looks set to have a large increase in cyber crime with the UK shopper set to spend a record £374.3 million over the festive period with one in... read more

17 Dec 14 @ 08:47

Samsung is said to be discussing a deal with a payments start-up that would help the smartphone maker introduce a mobile payments system in 2015 to rival Apple Pay, multiple sources report.... read more

16 Dec 14 @ 11:21

In a blog post on December 11 from Microsoft, the software giant quietly announced that its customers can now use bitcoin to purchase certain products through third party payment processor BitPay,... read more

16 Dec 14 @ 11:13

Barclaycard is to trial gloves that allow people to pay for their shopping via contactless, following demand for a wearable payment item that makes paying quicker and easier when laden... read more

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

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

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

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

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