08 Jun 17 @ 12:46

The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC), the organisation which manages the cheque clearing process in the UK, has announced details of a industry-wide cheque imaging system. The new system... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:44

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing new rules to help customers who are in persistent credit card debt. This follows a 2016 study of the UK credit card... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:43

One-in-five global organisations rank cyber espionage as the most serious threat to their business this year, according to cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. A similar number of US businesses confirmed that... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:41

Almost 1.4 billion data records were compromised in 2016 as hackers targeted large-scale databases across industries, a Gemalto report found. The 2016 Breach Level Index revealed that there were 1,792... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:40

The latest Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) annual report shows that criminals are increasingly using masking techniques to hide child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. They leave clues... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:38

Newly released data from Radial’s e-commerce fraud technology lab reveals an alarming statistic for retailers to digest. There has been a 200 percent increase in credit card testing so far... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:37

Despite security experts warnings for years about security flaws around the SS7 (Signalling System 7), a protocol used by mobile networks to communicate with each other, hackers have finally accessed... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:31

Mastercard has unveiled its next generation biometric card, combining chip technology with fingerprints to conveniently and safely identify cardholders for in-store purchases. South Africa is the first market to test the evolved... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:28

In a recent announcement, the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator and the Bank of England (BoE) agreed a framework for the consolidation of Bacs, the Cheque and Credit Clearing Company and... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:25

At $5.5 trillion, China’s mobile payment market is more than 50 times larger than that of the US. It is now also being shaken up by underdog Tencent, snatching market share... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:25

A new UN study reveals that social network payments through Alipay and WeChat Pay totalled $2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments in 2016, representing a 20-fold increase in the past four... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:25

Six of the major Dutch banks – ABN Amro, ASN Bank, ING, Rabobank, Regiobank and SNS – are to launch Payconiq, a mobile payment app this summer. Payconiq will allow... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:24

Money has taken on many forms over millennia, and our relationship with currency often changes with it. A recent key theme has been the technological change to a cashless society:... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

There are a lot of moving parts in the US payments landscape with the ongoing EMV migration to chip technology, growth in mobile and contactless payments, and the increasing need... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out measures to tackle fraud on contactless cards which have been reported lost or stolen. In a letter to the treasury select committee,... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:50

A Danish banking collective, named Bokis, has become the first to offer a mobile payments product using the highly popular national debit card, Dankort. Bokis consists of 62 banks from... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:49

Actinic has unveiled the m-commerce results of the tenth annual e-Merchant profile, a study carried out between November and December 2016, comprising data from 2,100 European companies. The study confirms... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 11:49

Together with its ecosystem partners, Smartlink and Ingenico, Samsung has announced the launch of the contactless companion platform (CCP), built with its dual interface smart card chip for digital cash... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:37

Trend Micro has warned of a new point-of-sale (POS) malware dubbed MagikPOS, that is being used to attack POS systems belonging to merchants in the US and Canada. The MagikPOS... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:35

IBM Watson IoT and Visa announced the industry’s first collaboration that brings the point of sale (POS) to everywhere Visa is accepted, by allowing businesses to quickly introduce secure payment... read more