10 Feb 15 @ 10:32

From wearable technology to smart phones, biometrics seemed to dominate at CES this year. Biometrics are unique human identifiers, such as fingerprints or retina scans, used as forms of authentication.... read more

04 Feb 15 @ 17:30

What will the world of payments look like in 20 years’ time? PCM dusts off its crystal ball to get a glimpse into the future. We are on the threshold... read more

04 Feb 15 @ 12:09

EMV implementation is under way in the US, but only about half of the 12 million merchant payment terminals will be converted to accept more secure EMV smart credit and... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 13:51

Providing consumers with a secure alternative to an ever-increasing number of passwords and profiles without compromising convenience is the latest frontier in driving consumer acceptance of new forms of payment.... read more

23 Jan 15 @ 10:34

With only nine months until the EMV migration deadline, retail and technology professionals are still unprepared, according to a recent survey by ACI Worldwide. The survey of 200 retail industry... read more

22 Jan 15 @ 12:07

In an unsurprising move, Monitise, the UK mobile payments company, has issued its third revenue warning in a year and appointed advisers to consider a sale of the business, as it... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 10:00

The Supreme Court handed US banks a victory as it declined to consider a challenge by a group of retailers to Federal Reserve regulations setting fees for processing debit-card transactions,... read more

08 Jan 15 @ 10:38

2C2P, a Southeast Asian payment services provider, and Myanmar Citizens Bank have announced the launch of the Citizen Card, a reloadable prepaid card accepted by MasterCard merchants globally. It comes... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 16:21

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) has announced the addition of Host Card Emulation to the RBC Mobile app, allowing Canadians to pay with most Android mobile phones without worrying about... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 11:29

Suddenly the key EU’s stakeholders (ECB/EC) are talking again about technical payments interoperability and new payments networks.  Many may ask why, for they have struggled over 10 years to fully... read more

18 Dec 14 @ 11:33

Interchange fees to process debit and credit card transactions are to be capped under an EU law that attempts to wrap-up a protracted battle with payment groups such as Visa... read more

17 Dec 14 @ 14:59

MBNA has, in partnership with MasterCard, launched a trial of a digital wallet. Once the trial is complete in early 2015, the MBNA Wallet could be quickly rolled out to... read more

11 Dec 14 @ 12:31

As we head toward the close, 2014 seemed to be the year of the dinosaur— as in the outmoded creature whose days were ended in the flash of a mighty asteroid strike.... read more

09 Dec 14 @ 16:18

According to local sources, Russia’s Rossiya and SMP banks, which fell under Western sanctions, are among the eight lenders that will start testing the country’s new national payment system on... read more

09 Dec 14 @ 09:46

PaymentsCM (PCM) predicts that contactless card payments in the UK this Christmas will exceed £500 million with over 250,000 transactions in December. The increase in contactless users has had a... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 17:00

MasterCard is seeking to partner with Visa to use biometric information to replace passwords for online payments. Existing password-based online security authentication is known as 3D Secure, which the two... read more

01 Dec 14 @ 16:00

Compass Plus, the retail banking and electronic payments software providers, has announced that its open development payment platform, TranzAxis, has now been fully certified to support Futurex’s Excrypt SSP9000 hardware security... read more

20 Nov 14 @ 09:00

New research from London-based strategic research and consulting firm RBR shows that there were 61 million EFTPOS terminals installed at 40 million merchant outlets around the world, at the end of 2013.... read more

18 Nov 14 @ 11:27

This week, Europe’s politicians begin trialogue talks to decide final rules on how much payment cards will cost merchants and consumers in card fees. The end goal is more competition... read more

14 Nov 14 @ 10:00

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has set out how it proposes to regulate the £75trn payment systems industry when it becomes fully operational in April. Payment systems enable consumers to... read more