14 Oct 19 @ 08:39

The global Real-Time Payments (RTP) market size was valued at 6.90 billion in 2018 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 29.3 percent from 2019 to 2025. RTPs... read more

06 Aug 19 @ 11:30

Cifas, the UK’s fraud prevention service, has released an alarming picture of fraud in the UK with the release of Fraudscape, the annual publication of its data that identifies and... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 14:36

A new report from Visa subsidiary CyberSource, based on responses from 2,800 fraud management specialists around the world, has revealed the characteristics that make for great fraud management in payments... read more

06 Feb 19 @ 05:23

Pay.UK’s Faster Payments team has announced the official launch of the anti-money laundering Mule Insights Tactical Solution (MITS) following a successful pilot by participants of the UK’s real-time payment service.... read more

27 Nov 18 @ 11:35

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are already the buzz-words of the next decade in almost every walk of life, from medicine to product design and financial services. But when... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:53

Cifas, the UK fraud prevention service, has released new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen for the first time since 2014. Cifas members recorded 84,463 cases in the first... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:52

In June 2018, Indian police in Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, broke the back of a card fraud and cloning racket that involved waiters at bars and restaurants across the... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 12:45

While the phrase ‘time is money’ may seem clichéd, it is becoming increasingly relevant as technology-savvy but busy consumers turn to the internet and alternative payments to make shopping faster... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 14:02

It has been a busy couple of months for deals within the payments world. PCM rounds up the latest news and looks behind the headlines. Consolidation in the payments industry... read more

01 Jun 18 @ 10:23

The doom-mongers have long been predicting an existential crisis in banking. Banks are being assailed on every side — by FinTech start-ups, Big Tech and regulators. They must maintain 24/7... read more

01 Feb 18 @ 11:15

November 2017 saw the launch of instant payment systems in the US and Europe. PCM looks at the barriers and enablers to real-time payments, and how organisations can position themselves... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:48

Passwords are no longer passing muster as a security or authentication method. The problem is quantity as much as quality. The average number of passwords registered to a single e-mail... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 15:14

More than half of UK consumers are concerned about the ability of businesses and financial institutions to protect financial and payments data, with 19 percent of respondents saying they do... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:34

Move over Big Data. There are two new buzz words in town: ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘machine learning’. The claims being made for these technologies are just as significant, if not... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 13:17

Consumer-facing technology brands have done much to reset expectations around speed, but also convenience, value and choice. Users expect payments to keep pace with the speed of service in other... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:06

RETAIL FRAUD CONTINUES to rise as does its cost. According to the LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study, fraud as a percentage of revenue has increased from 1.32 percent to... read more

27 Sep 16 @ 13:30

When bank-account funded payments, real-time payments, mobile and other digital payments are actually the default way to pay in many countries, the term ‘alternative’ seems a misnomer. We examine current... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 10:00

ACI WORLDWIDE IS consolidating its recent e-commerce acquisitions with the launch of an SaaS-based e-commercepayments solution. Historically strong in the face-to-face retail environment, ACI acquired e-commerce fraud detection and prevention... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 07:09

 CARD FRAUD RATES are on the rise in many parts of the world despite the widespread adoption of fraud analytics solutions by financial institutions and retailers, along with EMV in... read more

02 Aug 16 @ 16:19

Identification and verification (ID&V) has always been at the heart of banking and payments, particularly in the digital age. After all, “on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” read... read more