30 Nov 17 @ 12:42

First Annapolis, now part of Accenture has been closely monitoring European card products to track the evolution of product offerings and pricing. Twice a year, it reviews the card products... read more

28 Nov 17 @ 10:23

2018 is set to be a pivotal year for the financial services industry with both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payments Services Directive (PSD2) due to... read more

07 Nov 17 @ 13:26

American Express has announced SafeKey 2.0, the next generation of its online authentication tool built specifically to meet the needs of today’s increasingly digital commerce environment. SafeKey 2.0, which leverages... read more

19 Oct 17 @ 18:24

We live in digital times. Customers are increasingly shopping online and on mobile devices. In fact, the number of Europeans regularly using a mobile device — smartphone, tablet or wearable... read more

03 Oct 17 @ 09:28

Less than six months before the Revised Payments Service Directive (PSD2) makes Open Banking a reality across Europe, research from Accenture has found that two-thirds of consumers in the UK... read more

31 Jul 17 @ 15:11

The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) was adopted with payment innovation and safety to the fore. One of its purposes is to regulate at the European Union (EU) level practices... read more

09 May 17 @ 11:25

A group of influential European FinTech companies have come together as 56 companies and associations operating across all EU Member States and at a global level in the financial services space... read more

24 Mar 17 @ 10:33

On 23 February, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced its intention to outlaw screen scraping in one of their Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) complementing the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2),... read more

13 Feb 17 @ 16:51

People get themselves into a terrible tangle about trade-offs in payments. They think that if convenience is prioritised, it must be traded off against security. Likewise acceptance trades off against... read more

10 Feb 17 @ 11:24

Following the European Banking Authority’s consultation paper on strong customer authentication, the future for operators in Europe looks uncertain. Since the introduction of 3-D Secure for card-based e-commerce payments in... read more

03 Oct 16 @ 15:38

HCE Service has launched its SWIM (Software Wireless Identity Module) HCE mobile payments platform which provides a new and unique level of trust and security via the use of Public... 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

25 Feb 14 @ 11:07

Card fraud within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) increased in 2012 for the first time since 2008, driven mainly by higher internet fraud. The third report on card fraud,... read more

04 Feb 14 @ 15:50

On 30 January 2014 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) endorsed the Assessment guide for the security of internet payments, prepared by the European Forum on the... read more

02 Jan 13 @ 00:00

The European Central Bank (ECB) today released a comprehensive set of “Recommendations for the security of internet payments”, following a two-month public consultation carried out in 2012. The Recommendations represent... read more