03 Oct 18 @ 13:50

A new study has found that mobile biometrics will authenticate $2 trillion worth of in-store and remote mobile payment transactions annually by 2023. This is 17 times the $124 billion... read more

03 Oct 18 @ 13:40

During a lecture given in Germany in February 2018, Agustin Carstens, general manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), described Bitcoin as “a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 15:05

Cybercrime is booming. Banks and financial services companies are targets for criminals following the money and for nation-state actors and others looking to destabilise financial infrastructure. Ethical hackers, sometimes known... read more

09 Aug 18 @ 15:01

The benefits and functionality of prepaid are now being appreciated by all types of issuers and customers. Prepaid is increasingly becoming the infrastructure of choice for FinTech innovation. So, what... 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

09 Apr 18 @ 13:54

Retailers have been asking themselves and their vendors for some time how to get to omni-channel. “I wouldn’t start from here” is the flippant response. Yet retailers do start here.... read more

09 Apr 18 @ 12:49

As the Android POS market really begins to gain traction in both mPOS and traditional POS, Ingenico launched Axium, its next-generation POS platform designed with acquirers’ clients in mind. It... read more

31 Jan 18 @ 14:25

Security experts are warning companies that the only way to fully protect themselves against hackers is to completely replace their computer systems. The newly revealed, pervasive flaw in chip design, dubbed... read more

24 Nov 17 @ 15:03

The long tail of small and medium-sized businesses wags a long way down. Small merchants often make up the biggest group in an acquirer portfolio. They generate the most profit... read more

12 Oct 17 @ 09:48

FinTech firms have materially changed the basis of competition in financial services, but they have not yet changed the competitive landscape, according to a new report from the World Economic... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:36

There was a regulatory alert every 12 minutes in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters. With the pace of regulatory change showing no signs of let-up and compliance budgets ballooning, regulation... read more

03 Aug 17 @ 06:04

The first nationally sanctioned mobile wallet solution for the United Arab Emirates has been launched. Emcredit, a fully owned subsidiary of the Dubai Economy, will launch empay, a secure mobile wallet... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:47

PAYWORKS HAS LAUNCHED Pulse, a next generation payment gateway technology, simplifiying in-person card payments by making it quick, easy and cost-efficient for developers to integrate card readers into their point... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:37

IZETTLE ANNOUNCED IT has acquired intelligentpos, the UK’s leading cloud based point of sale solution for shops, bars and restaurants. The acquisition sees two disruptive companies joining forces resulting in... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:26

THERE HAS BEEN much written about the Australian banks pushing Apple Pay to loosen its grip on the technology that enables mobile payments. The result could bode well for US... read more

27 Sep 16 @ 13:16

Ten years after the founding of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), we present a mid-term report on the industry’s data security efforts. As both cyber attacks... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 09:45

BY CONNECTING BILLIONS of familiar devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to improve how we live, work and play by turning our homes, cars, offices and cities into smart,... read more

02 Aug 16 @ 15:58

Companies are faced with a two-fold problem: protecting their data from those who have access to it from the inside, and from those who exploit the human factor to access... read more

25 May 16 @ 09:55

Card payments in the Nordics are two-and-a-half to four times higher than the European average. Local person-to-person (P2P) mobile payment apps regularly top the app download charts. And at least... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:22

AEVI INTERNATIONAL GMBH, a subsidiary of Wincor Nixdorf, is launching its white-labelled app store in Europe through a partnership with acquirer EVO Payments International. The B2B app marketplace functions as... read more