24 Apr 14 @ 11:01

Card Payments in Europe – Cards and payments at the POS and on the internet continued to drive significant growth in many European countries. The roll-out of contactless cards has started... read more

09 Apr 14 @ 06:24

Barclaycard has announced that its customers are spending £6.6 million per month on their contactless cards. The latest figures from Barclaycard show that contactless payments have increased threefold since 2012,... read more

04 Apr 14 @ 11:11

Despite a slight decrease in corporate payments fraud and a heightened interest in security risks, 2013 saw an increase in fraud specific to credit and debit cards as criminals and... read more

04 Apr 14 @ 10:30

US regulators have warned its banks to protect their ATM’s and card authorisation systems from a fresh wave of cyber-attacks that seek to ATM hack a control weaknesses to spew... read more

03 Apr 14 @ 13:05

The European Parliament is to support the cap on costs of all credit and debit cards at reasonable levels across Europe but is allowing member states to set even lower... read more

27 Mar 14 @ 10:42

Embattled Wal-Mart Stores has filed suit against Visa this week in U.S. District Court (Fayetteville) claiming the defendant conspired with large banks to fix interchange fees charged to merchants between Jan... read more

26 Mar 14 @ 12:03

New options for making payments by mobile phone are expected to appear later this year in New Zealand. Payments NZ has launched new Mobile Device Rules and Standards that will... read more

21 Mar 14 @ 12:04

The Polish arm of Orange will work with mBank to provide mobile financial services to smartphone and tablet users in Poland in H2 2014, according to several published reports. Germany-based... read more

19 Mar 14 @ 11:00

Irish consumers continued to change their payment habits in 2013, switching to debit card usage and reducing the number of cheques used when paying for goods and services. Since 2005,... read more

17 Mar 14 @ 15:54

The UK’s Transport for London say that us passengers have been wrongly charged thousands of pounds because of a contactless glitch in the payment system. Almost 1,800 commuters have been... read more

10 Mar 14 @ 12:52

Visa and MasterCard have launched a cross-industry EMV acceptance group to improve security for card transactions and press US retailers and banks to meet a 2015 deadline to adopt technology that would make it safer... read more

04 Mar 14 @ 15:56

Last year’s Target breach flooded underground markets with millions of stolen credit and debit cards. In the days surrounding the breach disclosure, the cards carried unusually high price tags — in... read more

03 Mar 14 @ 10:28

Visa Europe will cap the transaction fees it charges, the European Commission said on Wednesday, curbing an important money earner for banks behind the payment scheme. Europe’s antitrust regulator accepted on... 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

11 Feb 14 @ 16:24

Competition among banks to gain new customers, and campaigns to replace low-value cash transactions with card payments, have driven significant levels of card issuance and rising card usage in the... read more

27 Jan 14 @ 11:58

Apple is laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards on file through its... read more

22 Jan 14 @ 12:02

WorldPay has launched ‘Your Global Guide to Alternative Payments (Second Edition)’, an in-depth study of the global payment landscape. The study found online purchases made using alternative payments (any form... read more

21 Jan 14 @ 13:51

The recent Target security breach is set to generate a boom in demand for higher security, dual-interface cards, with US EMV adoption and shipments forecast to surge twentyfold from 2013... read more

04 Dec 13 @ 12:20

The European market for digital content, which could be monitised through mobile operator payment, is expected to increase from an estimated €15.8 billion in 2012 to almost €29 billion in... read more

22 Nov 13 @ 16:53

The UK’s Payments Council has released findings that suggest that around 12 pence in every £1 of consumers’ Christmas shopping this year will be spent online via e-commerce and m-commerce.... read more