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

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.

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

28 Jan 14 @ 15:28

DeviceFidelity,  a provider of plug and play mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) and security solutions, says that its Isis Ready NFC iPhone cases are available online, and will be available in AT&T... read more

28 Jan 14 @ 11:07

Recent payment regulation, interchange proposals in Europe and the revision of the Payment Services Directive will have a significant impact on business strategies for all stakeholders going forward – reports... read more

21 Jan 14 @ 13:51

The recent Target security breach is set to generate a boom in demand for higher security, dual-interface cards, with US EMV adoption and shipments forecast to surge twentyfold from 2013... read more

17 Jan 14 @ 11:53

EMVCo has begun work on token specifications for the use of digital tokens – rather than account numbers – for electronic and mobile transactions. Tokenisation replaces a traditional card account... read more

17 Jan 14 @ 11:33

Twitter is close to letting its users purchase products directly through the social network and is nearing a deal with payments startup Stripe. The deal, which is in the final... read more

10 Jan 14 @ 17:01

2013 saw continued interest by venture capital and corporate venture investments into payments tech companies ranging from mobile point of sales solutions to parking payment apps to international money transfer. To clarify,... read more

18 Dec 13 @ 13:21

Transport for London (TfL) has celebrated its first successful year of accepting contactless payment cards on all of the Capital’s 8,500 buses. Since it was launched on Thursday 13 December... read more

18 Dec 13 @ 11:15

iZettle, the social payments company allowing anyone to take card payments with their smartphone or tablet, has announced a partnership with Eurostar, the high-speed train service which links the UK, France... read more