30 Jan 15 @ 10:59

“Everything changes but change itself. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on,” observed Heraclitus of Ephesus (circa 535 –... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 10:41

Tinkoff Bank, Russia’s leading provider of online retail financial services and a large credit card issuer with 4.8 million cards issued, has selected IRIS Analytics’ fraud prevention solution. IRIS has... read more

29 Jan 15 @ 12:45

North American IT spending growth is rising steadily and is expected to be 4.5% higher in 2015. Growth will drop slightly in 2016 as IT spending by North American banks... read more

29 Jan 15 @ 12:36

OpenWay has developed WAY4 Host Card Emulation software  – supporting cloud technology specified by Visa and providing value-added financial services for customer attraction and engagement via mobile. WAY4 Host Card... read more

29 Jan 15 @ 12:21

Norway’s three leading operators ‒ Telenor, TeliaSonera and Tele2 – are to advance their Strex joint venture for mobile payments. Strex is now able to offer end users a single mobile wallet... read more

29 Jan 15 @ 09:43

Firstly, let me be clear…this is not a payments story. It is very interesting though! Apple just reported the biggest quarter of net income earned by any public company ever,... read more

28 Jan 15 @ 11:00

Understanding your customer’s mobile banking behaviour and what they want out of their digital experience and tools is key to any bank wanting to compete in the digital revolution, where the... read more

28 Jan 15 @ 09:25

As the race to win space in your wallet gains further momentum there is a new player in town: Swyp. Everybody, from Apple to Google, has a digital wallet these... read more

27 Jan 15 @ 12:46

Total spending on Visa cards in the UK has surpassed £600 billion for the first time reports Visa Europe. The results provide strong evidence of the UK’s transition to a digital... read more

27 Jan 15 @ 11:24

CHAPS, the UK’s same day high-value payment system operator, has reduced CHAPS participation fees by 50% for existing and prospective low-volume Direct Participants. This restructuring of its funding model honours... read more

27 Jan 15 @ 11:02

The European Payments Council (EPC), representing the European banking industry in relation to payments, today published a further iteration of the SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) Rulebooks, i.e. the SDD Core... read more

26 Jan 15 @ 11:21

yStats.com has published a new report about B2C e-commerce market in the four top emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China. The “BRIC B2C e-commerce Markets” report reveals that the... read more

23 Jan 15 @ 11:34

As the industry continues its trend toward smart terminals with integrated software for payments and other services, criminals are likewise stepping up their efforts to secure a new treasure chest of data... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 14:16

Following the release of the final compromise text for the proposed Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (the MIF Regulation) on 19 January 2015, European countries have finally... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 13:21

RiskIQ, the company that enables organizations to maintain the integrity of their brands on websites and mobile app stores, has announced research findings on the prevalence of suspicious mobile banking apps.... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 12:07

In an unsurprising move, Monitise, the UK mobile payments company, has issued its third revenue warning in a year and appointed advisers to consider a sale of the business, as it... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 09:00

In October 2014, W3C, the World Wide Web standards organization, announced plans to develop a world-wide payments standard for internet payments. The initiative is an interesting project to monitor since... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 15:23

Amazon has quietly announced that it is withdrawing from the mobile payments scene and has removed its mobile wallet from the various app stores after just six months. The limited... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 10:00

The Supreme Court handed US banks a victory as it declined to consider a challenge by a group of retailers to Federal Reserve regulations setting fees for processing debit-card transactions,... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:50

During 2014 we saw several occasions of significant political figures from the UK having a bitcoin friendly stance – is this all set to change in 2015. UK Shadow Minister Chi Onwurah and Chancellor of... read more