11 Feb 16 @ 17:56

Vodafone has has announced a strategic partnership with PayPal to expand contactless payments across its mobile wallet.

11 Feb 16 @ 14:42

Toronto-based Rakuten Kobo has selected Worldpay to manage its online payment processing and acquiring in Canada.

10 Feb 16 @ 11:30

For the third year in a row, Apple and Google claimed the top positions in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report. Technology brands represented more than a third of the table’s... read more

10 Feb 16 @ 09:30

In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cybercrime...

10 Feb 16 @ 08:53

A new study by Personetics has revealed that nearly half (45%) of...

10 Feb 16 @ 08:00

UK Banks should share their customer data to help consumers compare banking...

09 Feb 16 @ 13:19

Visa Inc. has launched Visa Developer, a milestone that transforms the world’s...

09 Feb 16 @ 13:08

With major smartphone brands Apple and Samsung making a big entrance into...

09 Feb 16 @ 12:59

Innocuous devices, the Internet of Things search engine Shodan recently found to be vulnerable to cyber attacks, include a teddy bear able to remotely send voice messages

08 Feb 16 @ 12:30

Stay one step ahead with deep industry information and a wealth of statistics from central banks, interbank companies and associations and individual banks. The Payment Cards Statistical Yearbooks give a market... read more

08 Feb 16 @ 12:15

The T&E sector, consisting of American Express, JCB and Diners Club, represents only a small proportion of the total payment cards market, but is nevertheless a huge segment in its... read more

08 Feb 16 @ 12:08

Fit Pay, a wearable payments startup founded by former Visa and CyberSource executives, has raised $3.1 million in a seed funding round led by Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient. The startup,... read more

08 Feb 16 @ 12:05

Stellar.org, a non-profit startup foundation that supports a universal financial platform, has been a part of the Fast Forward accelerator, which is funded in part by Google and BlackRock. The instant... read more

04 Feb 16 @ 16:39

On learning that his obituary had been published, Mark Twain telegraphed: “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. The same could be said of the cheque.

04 Feb 16 @ 16:31

The power within the payment value chain in Asia is shifting to Gen Y consumers aged 25-34, a new study finds.

04 Feb 16 @ 15:24

As of December 9, interchange regulation, which caps rates in Europe are now capped at 30 bps for credit cards (commercial cards excluded) and 20 bps for debit and prepaid cards.

04 Feb 16 @ 14:02

Western Union and Viber, a mobile messaging app with 664 million unique users worldwide, have announced an agreement to offer cross-border money transfer

03 Feb 16 @ 15:55

US EMV activity rising steadily, but some industry observers bemoan the slow EMV adoption in the United States since 2015.

03 Feb 16 @ 15:23

Barclays, has revealed that it will support Apple Pay from March. The bank been the only major financial institution in the UK that had not announced its support for apple’s mobile payments. Customers at Barclays... read more

03 Feb 16 @ 12:42

There has been a sharp rise in the number of e-money providers registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over the last two years, with 79 now authorised in total,... read more