18 Sep 14 @ 09:44

Regulators in the Asia-pacific region are looking at rolling out a SEPA-style single payment area, but what will be the challenges of such a project in one of the most... read more

17 Sep 14 @ 12:09

Amazon shut down its WebPay service, saying that the P2P money transfer service is not good enough to keep going. For several years, WebPay has let Amazon Payments users send,... read more

12 Sep 14 @ 11:16

Citigroup has claimed to be the first global bank to introduce its own branded digital wallet in the US. However, questions are being asked as to how many of Citi’s... read more

18 Aug 14 @ 15:31

Online auction site eBay is planning to integrate bitcoin into its Braintree payments service. The move comes after executives from eBay’s online payments unit PayPal held meetings with digital currency... read more

15 Aug 14 @ 13:27

Payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Leaf, a US-based mPOS start-up. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Heartland initially paid $20 million for a majority stake in... read more

13 Aug 14 @ 14:57

In a widely anticipated move, Amazon.com has unveiled a $10 mobile point of sale device (mPOS) and mobile app for brick-and-mortar businesses, marking the latest step by the US online... read more

07 Aug 14 @ 15:27

A leading digital identity expert has revealed the results of its new research The Rise of the Identity Centric Economy which found that 53% of UK consumers would never use... read more

05 Aug 14 @ 14:40

In another bout of analyst fuelled prospecting, Apple and Visa are now deepening their relationship – Pacific Crest analysts issued a report in which they declare that “we think a partnership between Apple and Visa would... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 16:06

As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward in Article 58 of the upcoming Payment Services Directive (PSD2)... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 10:20

Amazon has quietly released a new Android and Fire Phone app, dubbed Amazon Wallet, which lets users scan cards with their phone and save them in the Amazon cloud, so... read more

08 Jul 14 @ 09:03

A new report on alternative payment methods worldwide states that in North America, cards accounted for almost three quarters of B2C E-Commerce transactions, with digital wallets being the largest alternative... read more

23 Jun 14 @ 16:14

Consultancy Deloitte have released a new report in which they state that European retail banks need to radically overhaul their technology infrastructure if they are to face off the competitive... read more

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

10 Jun 14 @ 12:05

Amazon.com Inc will start managing online payment subscriptions for start-ups and other companies – the latest in a series of quiet moves the e-commerce giant has made into PayPal’s turf over the past year.... read more

30 May 14 @ 11:12

With incidents of security breaches and fraud increases, the payment industry is paying close attention to secure identification and personal verification methods – could 2014 be the year that biometric... read more

21 May 14 @ 15:35

EBay has asked users to change their passwords following a cyber-attack that compromised one of its databases. The US firm said the database was hacked between late February and early... read more

20 May 14 @ 12:01

In a surprising move, Google Wallet users can now choose to pay with PayPal when shopping in the Google Play store. Google Wallet and PayPal have been competing with each... read more

20 May 14 @ 11:52

Tech companies have invested millions in trying to persuade people to make mobile payments, but the closure of a high-profile app launched by Twitter’s co-founder suggests too few are willing... 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

01 May 14 @ 16:05

Apple is working on a mobile payments solution, as per numerous reports from PCM, but also mainstream news like The Wall Street Journal. Exactly how the company plans to implement such a... read more