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17 Jul 14 @ 13:25
This spring, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered a vision of the company’s future – to anyone reading between the lines. “We have almost 800 million iTunes accounts and the majority... read more
02 Jul 14 @ 12:48
On July 7, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Easter District of New York will begin hearing arguments in the case, which the Department of Justice... read more
25 Jun 14 @ 11:46
The rapid convergence of prepaid and mobile commerce is creating significant opportunities for merchants and other stakeholder groups to push banks and other day-to-day money management service providers down the... read more
24 Jun 14 @ 11:57
A new survey shows that the majority of high value retailers in Europe believe that draft EU rules to cap interchange fees for electronic payments should only go ahead if... read more
18 Jun 14 @ 13:59
Card networks are taking aggressive action not to lag behind the expected replacement of plastic products with new digital payment methods. For example, Discover Financial Services has signed onto the... read more
17 Jun 14 @ 13:02
An Android mobile banking Trojan program originally designed to steal mobile banking credentials from Russian users has been found in the wild and has been retrofitted with ransomware functionality to... read more
13 Jun 14 @ 10:59
While much of the debate around European card regulation and interchange focuses on Visa and MasterCard, how will three-party schemes fare under proposed legislation? The July 2013 publication of European... read more
04 Jun 14 @ 13:47
American Express has contacted around 75,000 of its customers in California to warn them that their card data has been posted online by Anonymous Ukraine. In March this year, the... read more
30 May 14 @ 08:49
While much of the debate around European card regulation focuses on Visa and MasterCard, how will three-party schemes fare under proposed legislation? by Victoria Conroy The July 2013 publication of... read more
22 May 14 @ 15:06
For the first time since Q4 2008, near the height of the credit crisis, year-over-year receivables increased by more than 1% in Q1 2014. Purchase volume increased by 7.0% on... read more
08 May 14 @ 09:42
EMVCo, owned by American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay and Visa, facilitates worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions by managing and evolving the EMV chip Specifications and related... read more
02 May 14 @ 13:10
With record levels of investment from venture capital groups being ploughed into payment start-ups, is there a risk of another dotcom-style boom and bust? by Victoria Conroy The halcyon days... read more
17 Apr 14 @ 12:22
Despite media hype around the future of Bitcoin and high-profile mobile payments providers such as Square and Stripe preparing to accept the virtual currency this year, new research from digital... read more
07 Apr 14 @ 10:03
Advanced Payments report 2014, publishes the results of our 8th annual Advanced Payments Survey charting the development of the mobile and other advanced payments, capturing expectations, opinions and perspectives from all across the globe.
27 Mar 14 @ 23:48
Adyen, a global provider of international and omnichannel payment solutions, processed more than $14 billion in payments transactions in 2013 – a 40% increase over 2012 – and achieved record... read more
27 Mar 14 @ 20:42
New figures released on UK fraud by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show that levels of card and online banking fraud rose during 2013. Improved fraud detection and prevention... read more
27 Mar 14 @ 16:24
With record levels of investment from venture capital groups being ploughed into payment start-ups, is there a risk of another dotcom-style boom and bust? by Victoria Conroy The halcyon days... read more
18 Mar 14 @ 09:52
The Target, Neiman Marcus, Michael’s Stores breach trifecta may have finally galvanized the US card payment industry to consider strongly EMV in the US. Too bad consumers are poised to change... read more
14 Mar 14 @ 12:37
New figures released on UK fraud by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show that levels of card and online banking fraud rose during 2013. Improved fraud detection and prevention... read more
19 Feb 14 @ 14:22
US banks could follow JP Morgan’s lead and get out of the US pre-paid market if proposed new regulatory oversight materialises, leaving the way open for the likes of American... read more
16 Jun 26 @ 18:17
Financial fraud losses in the UK climbed to their highest level in four years during 2025, highlighting the growing sophistication of criminal networks and rais... more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
23 Jun 26 @ 18:52
The European Payments Initiative (EPI) has secured a significant boost to its ambitions of creating a pan-European payments network, with Austria’s largest ba... more
