24 Oct 14 @ 15:38

In a bid to speed up US EMV adoption in the wake of recent payment card breaches at retailers, President Obama has signed an executive order directing government agencies to shift to... read more

23 Oct 14 @ 16:58

The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has launched an independent review into the worst disruption of Britain’s banking payment system, the Chaps payment system, in seven years. The BoE said part of its real-time gross settlement... read more

23 Oct 14 @ 11:39

Adyen has announced its latest global Mobile Payments Index, which covers the period of July through to September 2014. The Mobile Payments Index, which captures data from web-based transactions across... read more

23 Oct 14 @ 11:19

US bank-backed ACH, The Clearing House, has moved to develop a faster payments system as it begins the long process of replacing its antiquated current payments system. The Clearing House, a payments company and trade... read more

22 Oct 14 @ 13:59

According to the results of the “Mobile Cyber Threats” survey issued by Kaspersky Lab and INTERPOL, malicious, financial malware, programs targeting Android-based devices in order to steal money were used in 60% of attempted attacks... read more

22 Oct 14 @ 13:30

Bango has signed a global agreement with Samsung. The agreement means that hundreds of millions of consumers using Samsung devices will have access to frictionless mobile payment for digital goods... read more

22 Oct 14 @ 10:55

Belgium-Dutch start-up Sign2Pay is hoping to help abandoned mobile commerce checkout problems with technology that lets customers complete purchases by signing their names on their phones’ screens. Sign2Pay lets customers... read more

21 Oct 14 @ 12:58

The UK spends more on cyber defence than any other European state, and rightly so. New statistics have emerged showing that the UK suffered significantly more cyber attacks over the... read more

21 Oct 14 @ 09:23

I was prepared for Mobey Forum’s third annual Mobey Day event to be a lively affair. Bringing banks together with, amongst others, GSMA, chip manufacturers and mobile payment software providers... read more

21 Oct 14 @ 08:57

Apple’s new payment system, Apple Pay, rolls out at some retailers and promises more protection from hackers. With cybersecurity threats showing no sign of slowing down, perhaps it is time... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 17:07

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to enter the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market in the latest sign that alternative finance is gaining traction by moving into the mainstream. The high street bank is... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 16:23

Westpac has launched its new mobile payment sticker, enabling customers to make payments with any mobile device. The Westpac PayTag, can be attached to the back of a mobile device... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 16:19

The Payments Security Task Force (PST) has announced a forecast of participating acquirers estimating that at least 47% of US POS terminals will be enabled for EMV chip technology by the end... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 12:55

MasterCard and Zwipe announced their partnership for the launch of the world’s first biometric contactless payment card featuring an integrated fingerprint sensor. The launch of the card comes after a successful... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 12:07

The European Payments Council (EPC) is to set up a host of new bodies to manage the Single euro payments area (SEPA) scheme and are calling for independent candidates to... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 11:59

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has folded six different businesses into a single business unit and changed the name of its Alipay financial services affiliate to... read more

17 Oct 14 @ 09:00

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) says it will begin a new initiative to integrate payments seamlessly into the Open Web Platform and help tackle fraud. W3C calls upon all industry stakeholders... read more

16 Oct 14 @ 11:00

A recent GfK survey in China, Germany, South Korea, the UK and the US indicates that people in these countries see potential in using smartwatches to ‘carry’ tickets for passenger... read more

16 Oct 14 @ 10:20

MasterCard and Visa has recently released the technical specifications for tokenization. Tokenization is the next generation security for mobile cloud based payments and other secure mobile services. “We started the... read more

15 Oct 14 @ 14:26

Italian payment processor SIA has launched a SEPA-compliant smartphone-based mobile money transfer service, enabling users to send and receive money in real time to and from their phone contacts. The... read more