11 Sep 15 @ 12:25

Google is to (finally) roll out Android Pay, its one-touch payment app on Android devices – which competes directly with Apple Pay, in more than 1 million locations in the US. The payment... read more

10 Sep 15 @ 10:37

Wall Street is putting more money behind a blockchain technology which  it once dismissed as a fad. Some of the biggest companies in the financial sector have invested $30 million... read more

20 Aug 15 @ 15:49

PCM in partnership with Edgar, Dunn & Co. and American Express unveil the findings of the latest Advanced Payments Survey. The annual Advanced Payments Survey, which this year has been... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 11:36

As the world mourns the loss of a former king of the handset manufacturing world and Microsoft licks its wounds in writing down about $7.6 billion on the Nokia division,... read more

29 Jul 15 @ 10:02

Stripe has won a new round of funding from investors that include Visa, Sequoia Capital and American Express, the funding values the company at $5 billion. The actual value of the funding has not... read more

30 Jun 15 @ 10:25

European payments regulation, such as the original Payment Services Directive (PSD) of 2007 and Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA), have already caused significant change within the banking and payment industry.... read more

30 Jun 15 @ 10:24

With more Americans using credit, debit and prepaid goods to pay for goods and services, the merchant card processing fees to process those cards continues to rise. General purpose and private... read more

03 Jun 15 @ 09:04

The annual Advanced Payments Report, which this year has been produced by PCM in conjunction with American Express and written by consultancy Edgar, Dunn & Co. (EDC), has become one... read more

01 Jun 15 @ 12:00

Google has Android Pay. The internet giant outlined a set of APIs that will allow developers to add an Android Pay button to their app and banks to enable payments... read more

13 May 15 @ 17:04

Apple Pay has breathed new life into tokenization and the use of tokenization has seen a revival due to new technology approaches that remove associated operational risks and complexities and... read more

06 May 15 @ 14:35

Official figures for Q4 2014 released by the global technical body EMVCo show that significant advances are being made globally in the adoption of EMV chip technology. By the end... read more

01 May 15 @ 12:34

Apple, Starbucks and Disney are all strong brands with loyal followings, but they also have something else in common: They’re early leaders in the ever-evolving mobile payments market. Some analysts... read more

01 May 15 @ 12:19

Finally, some good news for CurrentC! As the new CEO, Brian Mooney, formerly CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services, one of the largest US merchant payment acquirers, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a... read more

17 Apr 15 @ 13:36

According to a WSJ blog, American Express is experimenting with facial recognition and wearable technology that could turn into new capabilities for some of its mobile apps, including products aimed... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:07

Travellers on the London public transport network used their contactless payment cards to pay for more than a million journeys on a single day last week. Transport for London (TfL),... read more

10 Mar 15 @ 17:12

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a bill to cap credit and debit card interchange fees. The bill, which will come into force in October this year, will... read more

06 Mar 15 @ 12:14

Dan Schulman, the new CEO of PayPal has set out his vision for turning eBay’s payments arm from a button on a website into the operating system for digital commerce.... read more

23 Feb 15 @ 11:49

There are lots of ongoing discussions around EMV payments in the US; PIN versus signature, contactless, mobile payments (firmly back on the table after the introduction of Apple Pay), tokenization,... read more

13 Feb 15 @ 12:29

The Kaspersky Lab study ‘Financial Cyber Threats in 2014’ reports that 28.8% of phishing attacks in 2014 were intended to steal financial data from users. While carrying out their scams,... read more

04 Feb 15 @ 12:09

EMV implementation is under way in the US, but only about half of the 12 million merchant payment terminals will be converted to accept more secure EMV smart credit and... read more