18 Jan 18 @ 17:43

In mid-September, the Bank of England issued a new polymer £10 note featuring the author Jane Austen. The notes include raised dots in the upper corner to help blind and... read more

18 Jan 18 @ 17:35

Passwords are no longer passing muster as a security or authentication method. The problem is quantity as much as quality. The average number of passwords registered to a single e-mail... read more

18 Jan 18 @ 17:23

Amazon accounted for circa 18% of online food and beverages sales this year, according to a report by market research firm Packaged Facts. Amazon’s share is double the 9% held... read more

17 Jan 18 @ 13:31

Vantiv has completed its acquisition of Worldpay Group. The combined company, named Worldpay, Inc. creates a leading payments provider uniquely equipped to power global integrated omni-commerce, processing more than 40 billion transactions... read more

17 Jan 18 @ 10:11

European retail organisations have called on authorities to expand the scope of interchange fee controls to tackle other “stupendous” charges imposed by card schemes, as new rules banning merchants from... read more

16 Jan 18 @ 10:22

PPRO Group have become a direct acquirer for Bancontact, the leading Belgian electronic payment scheme. The relationship will provide merchant aggregators worldwide with an efficient method to allow their merchants... read more

15 Jan 18 @ 19:58

Bank of America, through its P2P mobile payments platform Zelle, says it processed nearly 68 million Zelle transactions in 2017, an 84% increase from the previous year. In Q4 2017,... read more

15 Jan 18 @ 13:00

Around $2 trillion is laundered every year and everyone is paying the price. Banks have huge regulatory overheads. Businesses and consumers encounter friction to open a bank account, transfer funds... read more

12 Jan 18 @ 11:49

The Future of European Fintech Alliance, consisting of 72 European FinTechs, challenger banks and FinTech associations, has taken note of the final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication... read more

12 Jan 18 @ 11:18

Ripple has announced a tie-up with money transfer company MoneyGram, a move which is significant because the arrangement involves the use of XRP, Ripple’s digital currency, which has recently soared in value but... read more

11 Jan 18 @ 21:55

Key Insights for 2018: Although 11 bitcoin forks were scheduled for December they are already losing steam and it is unlikely that any of them will claim greater than 5%... read more

11 Jan 18 @ 15:55

Latest figures show that 2017 was another record-breaking year for Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), with over 6.34 billion payments, worth a total in excess of £4.9 Trillion, processed by... read more

10 Jan 18 @ 08:20

It is no longer good enough for merchants to simply have a functioning app. If I were writing this three years ago, then I would have accepted that just getting... read more

09 Jan 18 @ 17:18

Transferwise is moving another step closer to banking territory with the expansion of its “borderless” account and debit card for consumers. The accounts can hold cash in more than 20... read more

09 Jan 18 @ 11:04

Google has finished revamping its mobile payment offerings bringing together Android Pay and Google Wallet in one product and creating a new brand called Google Pay. The new product merges... read more

09 Jan 18 @ 10:19

Visa and Dynamics today unveiled the Dynamics Wallet Card, an Internet of Things (IoT) device that holds multiple payment cards and includes a digital display allowing for greater security, instant... read more

08 Jan 18 @ 16:55

The year 2016 marks the second time that multiple Federal Reserve Banks (FR Banks) have surveyed financial institutions (FIs) about their mobile banking and payment practices and plans. After surveying... read more

08 Jan 18 @ 10:14

Bitcoin, despite its stratospheric price, is losing its allure with some of its earliest and most avid fans, the criminals, giving rise to a new breed of cryptocurrencies. Privacy coins... read more

08 Jan 18 @ 09:48

Western Union is to pay $60 million AML fine to resolve allegations that it failed for more than a decade to maintain a program to deter and report transactions involving... read more

05 Jan 18 @ 12:33

Simple and secure ways to complete transactions directly through a mobile device have become increasingly popular over the last three years globally. Mobile users can now do this through a... read more