13 May 14 @ 13:58
The latest Smart Insights Report establishes that mPOS, the combination of smartphone convenience with the needs of the bank card acceptance at the point of sales, will account for 52... read more
13 May 14 @ 11:49
who dedicated the payment network to the taking on the global players like Visa and MasterCard. The new payment network developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a... read more
13 May 14 @ 09:58
Clear2Pay has announced that the NFC Forum, the non-profit industry association that advances NFC technology, approved its Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) and Simple NDEF Exchange Protocol (SNEP) Conformance Test... read more
12 May 14 @ 11:53
Frozen out and unable to benefit from exclusive online deals, 3.5 million shoppers1 are fighting back against credit refusal by finding alternative payment methods. An estimated 2.3 million shoppers were... read more
12 May 14 @ 11:46
The US may not complete the migration from magnetic-stripe cards to EMV chip cards until 2018 even though the EMV liability shift deadline for merchants and issuers arrives in 18... read more
09 May 14 @ 15:00
Singapore is set to go live with its G3 Immediate Payments system, putting it in an elite club – alongside the UK, Sweden and Poland – of countries with a... read more
09 May 14 @ 09:30
US banking regulators have been warning banks for over a year to beef up their cyber security as attacks on financial institutions are becoming more frequent, sophisticated and widespread. According... read more
08 May 14 @ 11:58
KDDI, a major Japanese mobile operator in partnership with MasterCard, announced the launch of the “au WALLET” prepaid card program for 34 million au-brand mobile network subscribers. This will be... read more
08 May 14 @ 10:11
As Russia begins to ramp up its own counter sanctions to the West, it has been revealed that Visa and MasterCard will have to pay nearly $4 billion in deposits... read more
08 May 14 @ 09:59
Deutsche Telekom customers can now make purchases with their smartphones with the launch of MyWallet which turns smartphones1 into digital wallets. The app, the digital payment card and an NFC... read more
08 May 14 @ 09:42
EMVCo, owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay and Visa, facilitates worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions by managing and evolving the EMV chip Specifications and related... read more
07 May 14 @ 09:09
Just days after FirstBank, a US regional bank from Boulder openly mocked Google Glass in a new video ad for its own mobile banking app, Google is working on a... read more
07 May 14 @ 08:57
In a new partnership, Amazon and Twitter have joined forces to offer a unique – but fairly specific-ability: If you see an Amazon product link on Twitter, you can now add... read more
06 May 14 @ 18:20
The global market for trusted service management (TSM) has not quite lived up to expectations with the low level of mobile payments solutions and near field communication (NFC) commercial deployments... read more
05 May 14 @ 11:22
An independent report into events surrounding the near collapse of the UK’s Co-operative Bank offers a cautionary tale for banks contemplating a core platform renewal programme. The independent review by... read more
05 May 14 @ 10:07
The Federal Reserve Banks has released a new report which shows that US consumers choose to use cash more frequently than any other payment instrument, including debit or credit cards.... read more
02 May 14 @ 13:10
With record levels of investment from venture capital groups being ploughed into payment start-ups, is there a risk of another dotcom-style boom and bust? by Victoria Conroy The halcyon days... read more
01 May 14 @ 16:05
Apple is working on a mobile payments solution, as per numerous reports from PCM, but also mainstream news like The Wall Street Journal. Exactly how the company plans to implement such a... read more
20 Oct 26 @ 09:06
Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration ... more
29 Oct 26 @ 19:39
Visa is expanding its payments infrastructure around agentic commerce, stablecoins and tokenisation as its global credential base reaches 5.2 billion and ... more
22 Oct 26 @ 18:16
The UK’s competition regulator has set out proposals that could significantly widen access to contactless payments on Apple’s iPhone, potentially lowering b... more