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The potential of payment data analytics

23 Sep 14 @ 10:22

Payment data analytics is presenting significant opportunities for banks to drive additional revenues and enhance their value proposition. Banks are exploring numerous ways to generate real value from their payment... read more

SIX and BNP Paribas Fortis launch new POS and acquiring services

19 Sep 14 @ 12:06

BNP Paribas Fortis and SIX Payment Services (SIX) are entering into a unique partnership, targeted to acquiring services to merchants of all sizes and industries in Belgium. BNP Paribas Fortis... read more

First Data hits India through mPOS roll out

19 Sep 14 @ 12:00

First Data is to roll out their mPOS solution that is set to make payment acceptance faster and secure for the Indian merchant community in partnership with Mahindra Comviva. Th solution enables... read more

Orange partners African banks to extend mobile money services

19 Sep 14 @ 11:43

Orange has agreed partnerships with African banks to expand its mobile money services across the region to try to match the popularity of Vodafone’s M-Pesa. The French telecoms group has struck a... read more

BPCE launch Twitter-based P2P payments

19 Sep 14 @ 11:33

Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne (BPCE) has partnered with Twitter to let customers tweet money to each other via a P2P payments service. From October 2014, everyone with a bank card... read more

Can SEPA-style work in Asia-Pacific?

18 Sep 14 @ 09:44

Regulators in the Asia-pacific region are looking at rolling out a SEPA-style single payment area, but what will be the challenges of such a project in one of the most... read more

Global Payments 2014 – revenues show upward trend

18 Sep 14 @ 09:28

The global payments and transaction-banking businesses continue to represent vital elements of the banking industry and the global financial-services landscape. The importance of these businesses both as critical sources of... read more

Yaap P2P payments via mobile ‘Money’ app

18 Sep 14 @ 09:00

Yaap, the joint-venture between CaixaBank, Banco Santander and Telefónica, has releases Yaap money – a mobile app that facilitates the secure transfer of P2P payments instantaneously between users’ mobile phones.... read more

Point of Sale peripherals and the Barcode scanner

17 Sep 14 @ 12:44

The Point of Sale systems in use in many retail businesses nowadays are not only some sort of fancy cash register. Gone are the days of manual encoding and punching... read more

Amazon kills P2P payments service

17 Sep 14 @ 12:09

Amazon shut down its WebPay service, saying that the P2P money transfer service is not good enough to keep going. For several years, WebPay has let Amazon Payments users send,... read more

TransferWise takes aim at banks

17 Sep 14 @ 11:58

After hitting its £1 billion milestone and raising $25 million from Sir Richard Branson and others this year, TransferWise is now moving beyond the ‘early adopter phase’ to challenge the... read more

EE extends contactless payment to London Underground

17 Sep 14 @ 11:43

As reported in PCM yesterday, Transport for London (TfL) has extended contactless payment support to the full Oyster network and operator EE has expanded its mobile micropayment service accordingly. Cash... read more

Payment modernisation in the digital era

17 Sep 14 @ 10:48

The frenetic pace of payments industry activity is gathering momentum with every day that passes. As new solutions and technologies begin to gain traction worldwide, the war on cash is being fought on many fronts. But the most pressing issue for financial institutions is whether their existing payment systems can support the rapid evolution occurring. Read the full report produced in association with BPC Group.

Domestic schemes – set for domination?

16 Sep 14 @ 13:55

The launch of RuPay in India and plans for a Russian payment network indicate a resurgence in domestic schemes, but at what cost to the international players? While Europe’s banks... read more

How to secure HCE applications

16 Sep 14 @ 13:49

E-security solutions provider, Cryptomathic, has published its latest white paper, which offers advice to banks and payment service providers on how to protect mobile banking, payment and (Host Card Emulation)... read more

Banking and Payment vertical continues to offer strong growth for smart cards

16 Sep 14 @ 11:21

The global market for smart cards  will see steady growth due to the increasing emphasis on the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard in the payment and banking vertical. In... read more

TfL goes contactless in London

16 Sep 14 @ 09:02

In the wake of Transport for London (TfL) going fully contactless across its travel network, Visa predicts Brits will make 500 million contactless payments between now and December 2015. Transport... read more

Mobile operators scrap Weve

15 Sep 14 @ 13:08

As history repeats its self, Weve, owned by EE, O2 and Vodafone, has ditched plans for a joint mobile wallet, based on NFC, which was meant to help the operators... 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