09 Aug 18 @ 14:37

A new report by the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee has found in favour of supporting central bank digital currencies, which they define differently from cryptocurrencies. While cryptocurrencies use cryptographic... read more

01 Jun 18 @ 10:25

Previously existing only on the fringes of finance or computer science, cryptocurrencies are now being discussed more widely. In the future, banks may not be the only ones making money... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 13:50

Since the 2008 financial crisis, trust in banks has slumped. Ten years on, how do banks and financial institutions re-build and maintain trusted relationships? And how do they compete against... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:46

Ripple in partnership with a consortium of 61 Japanese banks has developed a payments app that settles transactions instantly via Blockchain technology. Ripple says that the ‘Money Tap’ app will... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:16

JPMorgan Chase is set to launch a new interbank payments platform powered by the Quorum enterprise-ready distributed ledger and smart contract Blockchain platform. With the participation of two other banks... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 14:16

Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s minister of communications, has revealed that President Vladimir Putin has given the go-ahead for a new cryptocurrency dubbed the crypto-rouble, reports CoinTelegraph, claiming local news sources. The Russian form of cryptocurrency... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 14:46

From Brixton in the UK to Nantes in France and Mombassa in Kenya, local currency schemes are growing. In the face of the financial crisis and changing technology, PCM investigates... read more

11 Oct 17 @ 15:05

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of cryptocurrency transactions is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2017, more than 15 times the level in 2016. The... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 12:40

The latest Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) annual report shows that criminals are increasingly using masking techniques to hide child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. They leave clues... read more

08 Jun 17 @ 10:17

The news that JPMorgan Chase left the R3 Blockchain consortium speaks to the challenges ahead for any consortium whose aim is to get multiple financial institutions to agree on a... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 11:39

It has been almost 20 years since the paradigm shift in transaction transport, which made simple payment gateway integration available to an exploding community of web developers. Payment gateways became... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:11

The internet comes with unintended consequences, including the ease with which it can be mis-used for the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Payment platforms are also being mis-used to monetise... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:49

ACCENTURE IS STIRRING up a Blockchain storm within the community by patenting a technique for editing information stored using the nascent technology in a move designed to make it more... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 10:00

SANTANDER UK HAS announced that it is experimenting with international Blockchain payments. The lender is allowing transfers of between £10 and £10,000 in any of three currencies (GBP, EUR or... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 07:28

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is proposing to expand its anti-money-laundering rules to cover virtual currencies and prepaid cards, in a bid to fight terror financing and tax evasion as revealed in... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:31

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a web payments working group to help streamline the online checkout process and make internet payments easier and more secure. W3C is... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 14:58

Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised,... read more

02 Oct 15 @ 07:57

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

01 Oct 15 @ 08:51

Danish digital currency processor Coinify has acquired Dutch rival Coinzone to create a pan-European provider of payment processing for online merchants and PSPs. The deal will extend Coinify’s merchant base... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 07:39

Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, are planning to develop common standards for blockchain technology in an effort to broaden its use across... read more