27 Feb 17 @ 12:43

It has been almost 20 years since the internet made a paradigm leap in transaction transport, and made simple payment gateways integration available to an exploding community of web developers.... read more

03 Nov 16 @ 14:22

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2 regulation) is set to bring payments in Europe to the next stage of development; it is a data and technology-driven Directive that aims to... read more

29 Sep 16 @ 13:06

Europol has issued a warning regarding the cybercrime threat landscape, particularly threats emanating from the so-called “Darknet.” The “2016-internet-organized-crime-threat-assessment” report, outlines the biggest threats online. The annual report concluded that... read more

14 Sep 16 @ 14:38

Circle for iMessage, which enables anyone using iOS 10 to send and receive social payments without fees to anyone in the world directly within Apple’s iMessage launched today. Customers can... read more

14 Jul 16 @ 14:33

We seem to be in the midst of a Blockchain hype cycle. Distributed ledger technology is being touted as the solution for tracking assets, executing contracts and modernising payment infrastructure.... read more

09 Jun 16 @ 14:22

Cyber security – The year in figures In 2015, there were 1,966,324 registered notifications about attempted malware infections that aimed to steal money via online access to bank accounts. Ransomware... read more

02 Jun 16 @ 09:02

The value of contactless payments made by consumers in Canada more than doubled over the past year, according to a new study published by Technology Strategies International. The report titled,... read more

29 Feb 16 @ 11:03

Innovations in FinTech have been added to the list of things the Financial Stability Board worries about by Mark Carney, head of the international group of policymakers and regulators. The governor... read more

03 Feb 16 @ 11:23

What a difference twelve months can make. Industry conversations at 2014’s Mobey Day, (Mobey Forum’s annual open conference for all mobile money stakeholders) told of an industry undergoing major FinTech... read more

27 Jan 16 @ 10:21

It was only a few years ago that banks owned the financial sector – the only way to pay, transfer and save money was via a traditional bank. The supremacy... read more

16 Dec 15 @ 17:29

Banks across the world are set to significantly increase spending on new payment technology in 2016, according to a new report from Ovum, the independent technology firm. Driven by increased... read more

10 Dec 15 @ 10:59

When your everyday life is all about information and cyber security, you start to see patterns that may not be so obvious to others. Each year, I take my best... read more

20 Nov 15 @ 12:53

Everything changed on 6 August 1991 when the first webpage was launched. Nearly 25 years on, we look at the state of cyber crime, the battle between cyber attackers and... read more

26 Oct 15 @ 15:45

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched the Web Payments Working Group to help streamline the online “check-out” process and make payments easier and more secure on the Web.... read more

13 Aug 15 @ 17:00

Danish digital currency processor Coinify has acquired Dutch rival processor Coinzone in order to create a pan-European provider of payment processing for online merchants and payment service providers. The deal... read more

04 Aug 15 @ 16:28

The Australian Senate has stated that digital currency transactions should be treated in the same way as regular currency for the purposes of taxation. An earlier judgment from Australia’s Taxation... read more

21 Jul 15 @ 15:42

A global study of over 300 banking and financial services executives shows that, for the first time, innovation is ranked as important as regulation. The research also reveals that mobile... read more

25 Jun 15 @ 16:36

Fintech investments continued at a remarkable pace last year, nearly tripling in the US in 2014, according to a new report by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York... read more

23 Jun 15 @ 16:32

Barclays has entered a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) trial with bitcoin exchange Safello, in an attempt to see if blockchain technology can improve its performance financial services sector. In an interview with CoinDesk, Safello... read more

11 Jun 15 @ 14:31

Bitreserve is now, according to a company statement, the world’s first zero-cost money transfer and currency exchange service. For the first time in history, the transfer, exchange and conversion of money... read more