03 Aug 17 @ 06:30

Criminals follow the money. In today’s increasingly interconnected world they conduct digital hold-ups and cause major disruption by targeting critical infrastructure. So, how do those in the financial services industry... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:26

With the 25 May 2018 deadline for the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) looming large, PCM considers the background, content and opportunities of the new regulation. The legal basis... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:24

It is now almost 18 months since the introduction of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR). This covered a good deal more than the interchange fee caps and included substantial changes... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:17

More than 30 US banks and credit unions unveiled a unified person-to-person money transfer service in mid-June. Known as Zelle, the service covers around 86 million US mobile-banking customers and... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:17

The latest Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report found that P2P is quickly becoming the new social norm, as 36 percent of adults currently use the service, with... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:16

Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report.... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:16

Apple and Visa have been hit with an Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit by Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, that alleges their mobile payment partnership infringes four... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:11

1967: Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as governor of California, Elvis Presley married and the UK entered negotiations for membership of the European Economic Community. It was also the year that... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:09

A new study from Ovum, has attempted for the first time to quantify the detrimental effect instant payments and PSD2 will have on traditional credit and debit card payments. The... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:07

Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, an annual survey of the global payment cards sector, reveals that the value of e-commerce card payments made worldwide grew by 26... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:06

It started with book publishing before moving to grocery retail, delivery, music streaming and television. The next industry Amazon has in its disruptive sights is banking. The Seattle-based behemoth has... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, has launched a new PSD2-compliant payment solution designed specifically for online marketplace operators. The solution is built on Ingenico’s... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

LG managed to launch its heavily delayed mobile payment service dubbed LG Pay on 2 June. The digital wallet competes with look-alike wallet offerings from Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:05

Worldpay has agreed a £9.1 billion deal to be acquired by US rival Vantiv, which sent shares in the company tumbling sharply. Worldpay shares fell close to ten percent to... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:04

Visa and Klarna announced they have reached an agreement for Visa to invest in Klarna, and intend to develop a future strategic partnership. Klarna is one of Europe’s fastest growing... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:04

The first nationally sanctioned mobile wallet solution for the United Arab Emirates has been launched. Emcredit, a fully owned subsidiary of the Dubai Economy, will launch empay, a secure mobile wallet... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 13:03

Identification and verification have always been at the heart of financial services and payments, which is even more the case in the digital age. So, while banks have long been... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 13:03

Codes and ciphers have been around since the time of the Greeks. As cryptography underpins much of the security behind financial systems, we examine its evolving uses, plus the possible... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 13:03

One truism about the payments industry is that it is always changing. We examine how the industry is equipping itself for the changes ahead. Has it got enough of the... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:48

After the initial frostiness, financial service incumbents and FinTech firms are realising that they need to collaborate to be successful. Caught between the constraints of a legacy infrastructure and cultural fears... read more