21 Aug 14 @ 11:10
Package delivery giant UPS has become the latest company to admit that customer payment card details may be at risk after it discovered malware at 51 of its US stores.... read more
21 Aug 14 @ 11:07
A tech company specialising in biometric selfies for use in banking authentication has received $6 million in funding to expand the company’s proposition. EyeVerify’s self-verification technology, Eyeprint ID, enables smartphone... read more
21 Aug 14 @ 11:04
UK prepaid solution provider Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) has announced the launch of the Airopay card, the first prepaid MasterCard in Finland. The card is denominated in euros and is... read more
20 Aug 14 @ 15:15
Russia’s MDM Bank has partnered with Chinese payment network China UnionPay (CUP) to issue CUP-branded cards. Other Russian banks, including Alfa Bank, Gazprombank and Bank of Moscow are also preparing... read more
20 Aug 14 @ 15:10
M-Pesa, the African mobile money phenomenon, will see its transaction fees for low-value payments being significantly reduced as its owner, Vodafone subsidiary Safaricom, prepares to fight competition from rival services... read more
20 Aug 14 @ 15:07
PayPal has launched a new mobile ap product, One Touch, for merchants and app developers. One Touch has been built in conjunction with eBay unit Braintree, and is modeled on... read more
20 Aug 14 @ 15:02
E-commerce giant Overstock has announced that bitcoin payments will be available on its international website from 1 September. Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, has announced that the company intends to... read more
19 Aug 14 @ 15:53
UK banks are launching a ‘retry’ system that will give customers a second chance to avoid bounced payments and their associated fees. From 1 September, when a customer’s standing order,... read more
19 Aug 14 @ 15:46
Top Image Systems, a provider of enterprise content management and business process management solutions, and a mobile imaging platform provider, has forged a long-term transaction-based deal with Allied Payment Network... read more
19 Aug 14 @ 15:39
Digital security specialist Oberthur Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire display card manufacturer NagraID Security. Oberthur will acquire a 100% equity stake of NagraID Security from the Kudelski Group... read more
19 Aug 14 @ 15:35
mPOS player Square is extending its small business cash advance financing programme after securing investment from Victory Park Capital. The Square Capital programme is aimed at small businesses using its... read more
18 Aug 14 @ 15:39
US consultancy First Annapolis has highlighted how issuers are feeling heightened pressure to migrate card portfolios to EMV as the October 2015 liability shift deadline quickly approaches. After a spate... read more
18 Aug 14 @ 15:34
European mPOS specialist SumUp has closed a double-digit million dollar Series C funding round led by Russian fintech venture capital fund Life.Sreda. Existing investors, including Groupon, BBVA Ventures and various... read more
18 Aug 14 @ 15:31
Online auction site eBay is planning to integrate bitcoin into its Braintree payments service. The move comes after executives from eBay’s online payments unit PayPal held meetings with digital currency... read more
15 Aug 14 @ 13:34
Barclaycard, which recently laumched ‘bPay’ contactless wristbands, is offering businesses customer behavioural data mined from the wearable devices. Barclaycard will begin a full roll-out of bPay bands next year, allowing... read more
15 Aug 14 @ 13:27
Payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Leaf, a US-based mPOS start-up. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Heartland initially paid $20 million for a majority stake in... read more
15 Aug 14 @ 13:19
US supermarket chain Supervalu has become the latest large-scale merchant to suffer a breach of its network, compromising customer card data. In a statement, the company says it suffered a... read more
14 Aug 14 @ 14:48
Russia’s Central Bank is preparing to abandon its deadline for Visa and MasterCard to pay transaction security deposits because neither has yet selected a partner to process cards in Russia next year,... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more