20 Aug 20 @ 09:29
MoneyGram has announced a new partnership with Airtel enabling Airtel Money’s 19 million customers to quickly and conveniently receive MoneyGram transfers directly into their mobile wallet from family and friends... read more
18 Aug 20 @ 13:02
Finablr, the embattled foreign-exchange business, which uncovered about £1 billion of debt hidden from its board that may have been used for purposes outside of the company and compounding a... read more
31 Jul 20 @ 12:10
A global payments report has confirmed findings from PCM’s proprietary research and other sources that card use is now in slow decline in developed markets and is being replaced by... read more
26 Jul 20 @ 10:51
Long described in some quarters as an over-bloated industry buzzword, McKinsey and Co and The Harvard Business Review have recently come out in favour of omnichannel as the customer experience and payments strategy... read more
06 Jul 20 @ 11:08
Fraud has been a problem since coins were introduced more than two thousand years ago. In today’s digital age, the problem won’t go away – indeed, it’s getting worse despite... read more
01 Jul 20 @ 16:21
Wirecard’s offices in Germany and two locations in Austria have been raided by Munich prosecutors looking into the €1.9 billion that went missing from the company’s accounts. 12 prosecutors and... read more
23 Jun 20 @ 16:12
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a new malware technique for stealing e-commerce users’ payment information from online shopping websites – a type of attack known as web skimming. By registering for... read more
17 Jun 20 @ 11:40
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a group of retailers including J Sainsbury in the long running battle around historic interchange fees the networks charged leading to... read more
15 Jun 20 @ 11:20
BitPay has launched the BitPay Card, the first Mastercard Prepaid card for crypto users in the US. The Card enables customers to instantly convert cryptocurrency into fiat currency, which is... read more
09 Jun 20 @ 13:15
CaixaBank has begun a nationwide deployment of facial recognition ATMs. The deployment is the first launched by a financial institution on a global level that allows users to withdraw money... read more
04 Jun 20 @ 15:50
A new retail report has conducted two international surveys focusing on the deployment of digital technologies and payment methods in retail sector, as well as consumers’ willingness to use them.... read more
02 Jun 20 @ 11:50
A new report offers a comprehensive review of the blockchain landscape, COVID-19’s impact on crypto, and what’s in store for the rest of 2020. “Crypto not blockchain” was the dominant... read more
27 May 20 @ 11:29
New research reveals that over the next six months 35% of UK adults expect the level of their e-commerce to increase compared to 18% who anticipate it will fall. Overall,... read more
26 May 20 @ 13:22
Wirecard has been forced to postponed the publication of its 2019 annual results for the third time after its auditor EY acknowledged it needs more time to finish the work,... read more
22 May 20 @ 09:42
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to the savage disruption of retail the world over. Almost overnight, foot traffic in physical stores disappeared, and supply chains were left scrambled. Now at... read more
22 May 20 @ 09:32
Researchers are reported to be analysing EventBot, a new strain of Android malware that does not yet exist in the wild. Cybereason researchers did this by observing submissions to virus... read more
11 May 20 @ 15:35
The European Central Bank (ECB) says it will look into what a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) form of the euro might look like. The ECB set up a... read more
29 Apr 20 @ 09:38
FSS Technologies has announced a collaboration with Fairplay Pay s.r.o. one of the Czech Republic’s newest payments innovators specialising in SEPA and domestic transactions for its full-stack online acquiring suite.... read more
25 Mar 20 @ 09:56
The major schemes have announced over the last few weeks their commitment to enabling the increase in contactless payment limits across Europe. The move comes as 29 countries implement new... read more
13 Mar 20 @ 10:49
Amazon says it will begin offering its cashierless checkout technology that powers its Go stores to other retailers. The Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to “take what they want... read more
27 Sep 26 @ 18:53
Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace exi... 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
27 Sep 26 @ 18:52
Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britai... more