18 May 15 @ 17:13

MasterCard is reportedly poised to receive an antitrust complaint from European Union watchdogs probing card-payment fees, according to three people with knowledge of the case. Regulators may send a statement... read more

13 May 15 @ 17:04

Apple Pay has breathed new life into tokenization and the use of tokenization has seen a revival due to new technology approaches that remove associated operational risks and complexities and... read more

13 May 15 @ 16:58

Such is the fervour around virtual currencies that barely a day goes by without some form of news or announcement about the growth and threat of digital currencies but what... read more

11 May 15 @ 12:32

The mobile payment service Orange Cash is to be rolled out in Spain. As part of the strategic alliance with the mobile operator Orange, Wirecard will provide the E-Money and... read more

06 May 15 @ 14:35

Official figures for Q4 2014 released by the global technical body EMVCo show that significant advances are being made globally in the adoption of EMV chip technology. By the end... read more

01 May 15 @ 12:19

Finally, some good news for CurrentC! As the new CEO, Brian Mooney, formerly CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services, one of the largest US merchant payment acquirers, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a... read more

01 May 15 @ 11:06

Tokenization is a technology that allows for more secure payments by substituting sensitive consumer account data for a random number that is unique to each transaction – a digital token.... read more

23 Apr 15 @ 12:05

With a crucial deadline looming in 2015, the US payments industry will have only partially converted to the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) chip card standard by the end of that year. Indeed,... read more

20 Apr 15 @ 11:36

According to several reports over the weekend, Apple is struggling to get the same level of support for its payments brand Apple Pay, outside of the US. Apple is alleged... read more

17 Apr 15 @ 13:41

The number of Europeans who will use a mobile payment application in 2015 will rise 51% year over year for a total of about 185 million, according to an ING... read more

17 Apr 15 @ 12:56

Royal Bank of Canada, which over a year ago built its own mobile wallet technology (with partners) that it’s adapted to work with Apple Pay, Android alternatives and the card... read more

15 Apr 15 @ 12:50

British businesses were hit by card fraud once every 20 seconds in March, with Worldpay warning that small businesses are likely to have been hackers’ biggest targets. Worldpay saw over... read more

23 Mar 15 @ 12:27

Optimal Payments a global provider of online and mobile payment processing services, has entered into an agreement to acquire Skrill Group from CVC Funds and other shareholders, for an enterprise... read more

19 Mar 15 @ 10:30

Facebook is bringing P2P payments to its Messenger application. The strategy will help Facebook keep users on its platform and add value while opening the door to promotion and loyalty capabilities... read more

17 Mar 15 @ 16:07

Travellers on the London public transport network used their contactless payment cards to pay for more than a million journeys on a single day last week. Transport for London (TfL),... read more

13 Mar 15 @ 12:18

Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) have launched its Apple Pay Tracker, a longitudinal study that will monitor adoption and usage of the mobile wallet throughout 2015. The study, comprising bimonthly surveys of... read more

09 Mar 15 @ 10:19

According to a recent research from Berg Insight, the global installed base of NFC POS terminals will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 28.4% from 21.4 million in... read more

06 Mar 15 @ 12:14

Dan Schulman, the new CEO of PayPal has set out his vision for turning eBay’s payments arm from a button on a website into the operating system for digital commerce.... read more

03 Mar 15 @ 10:25

Ingenico has launched the RP170c, an audio jack-based mPOS dongle that can accept payments made by mobile phone. The RP170c offers support for both NFC/contactless and mag-stripe payments via a 3.5mm standard audio... read more

23 Feb 15 @ 11:49

There are lots of ongoing discussions around EMV payments in the US; PIN versus signature, contactless, mobile payments (firmly back on the table after the introduction of Apple Pay), tokenization,... read more