05 Feb 14 @ 10:54

Merchants’ desire to conduct customer transactions on tablets and smartphones spurred a more than 50% boom in shipments of mobile point of sale (mPOS) hardware in 2013. But does the... read more

04 Feb 14 @ 16:46

CIBC and TELUS announced the launch of the CIBC contactless mobile payment app to TELUS mobile devices with Near-Field Communications (NFC) capability, allowing more Canadians to have access to mobile... read more

04 Feb 14 @ 16:20

In an unsurprising piece of news, the European Parliament has extended the SEPA migration deadline, set for 1st February 2014, for processing SEPA-compliant payment transfers by six months, to August... read more

04 Feb 14 @ 15:50

On 30 January 2014 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) endorsed the Assessment guide for the security of internet payments, prepared by the European Forum on the... read more

04 Feb 14 @ 12:41

With over R$690 billion (approximately US$300 billion) in card sales volume in 2012, the Brazilian market is the largest acquiring market in Latin America, and Brazil’s card volume grew at... read more

03 Feb 14 @ 16:56

US payments industry deployment of EMV technology accelerated in 2013 to help combat rising card fraud, but widespread industry adoption of US EMV still faces multiple obstacles. Merchants remain suspect... read more

03 Feb 14 @ 16:26

The three companies at the centre of the South Korean data breach which saw personal information stolen from millions of South Koreans have been forced to suspend operations for three months... read more

31 Jan 14 @ 16:10

In a recent investigation, RSA researchers uncovered the server infrastructure used in a global Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware operation responsible for the electronic theft of payment card and personal data from... read more

30 Jan 14 @ 15:43

Adyen has delivered findings from its third Mobile Payments Index covering the period September to December 2013. The Index shows mobile payments accounted for 19.5% of all transactions worldwide in December,... read more

30 Jan 14 @ 14:01

Bank boardroom focus on money laundering is at an all time high, according to data released by KPMG. Nine out of ten of senior financial executives (88%) questioned for KPMG’s... read more

29 Jan 14 @ 17:07

Canada has become a leader in the adoption of mobile payments by merchants and consumers. PCM looks at the factors driving the country’s m-payments success story and how a collaborative... read more

29 Jan 14 @ 16:30

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has shown that it will adopt a more robust approach to regulating Financial Services firms. Last year saw the FCA hand out a total of £472,262,738 worth of fines, a significant increase to the £311,569,256 handed by its predecessor the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2012.

28 Jan 14 @ 16:29

El Corte Inglés has received Visa Europe’s certification to implement contactless payments in all its shopping centres. From now on, and for all contactless payments, cardholders won’t have to hand... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 15:28

DeviceFidelity,  a provider of plug and play mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) and security solutions, says that its Isis Ready NFC iPhone cases are available online, and will be available in AT&T... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 14:28

South African headquartered Payment Gateway, Setcom, has announced a new four year agreement with ReD, a leading global fraud prevention provider. The agreement will make ReD’s industry leading ReD Shield... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 12:40

Neiman Marcus has been forced to admit that up to 1.1 million customer payment cards were compromised in the recent data breach that hit its instore POS terminals over a... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 11:07

Recent payment regulation, interchange proposals in Europe and the revision of the Payment Services Directive will have a significant impact on business strategies for all stakeholders going forward – reports... read more

27 Jan 14 @ 11:58

Apple is laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards on file through its... read more