02 Feb 16 @ 09:29

FIS has unveiled the industry’s first test solution that focuses on automated application testing for physical ATMs. FIS ATM TestBench helps banks and ATM service operators shorten test cycles, increase... read more

25 Jan 16 @ 16:44

SWIFT says that 45 leading banks have signed up to its global payments innovation initiative, announced at the end of December 2015. The 45 participating firms include major transaction banks from... read more

11 Jan 16 @ 13:17

A new study has found that UK banks charge small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) nearly £4bn in hidden transfer fees each year to make international money transfer payments. 96% of... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 16:44

Customers of the Barclays Pingit mobile payment app will be among the first to access a new UK bank account transfer service from October 2015. Barclays joins HSBC, first direct,... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 15:49

Big used to be beautiful but small and nimble has become all the rage as digital challengers snap at the heels of their larger rivals. How much of a threat... read more

15 Jul 15 @ 10:40

Shortly after online banking customers in the UK were warned of a major phishing campaign using the notorious Dyre malware designed to steal financial data, the malware has resurfaced in a new iteration... read more

14 Jul 15 @ 16:20

Despite the fact that PCM readers have known for weeks that Apple Pay was to launch in the UK on the 14th of July – it did launch. However, depending... read more

08 Jul 15 @ 12:13

According to press reports, private documents belonging to one of the biggest retailers in the UK reveal that  Apple Pay will be coming to UK stores on the 14th July. The leaked... read more

07 Jul 15 @ 10:19

Barclays has signed a deal with the digital payments service Zapp, enabling customers to make online transactions through the “pay by bank” application on mobile devices. The tie-up comes a... read more

09 Jun 15 @ 14:17

Apple Pay is coming to the UK in July, enabling millions of Apple device owners to use the tech giant’s mobile payments service. So far, MasterCard, Visa, eight UK banks... read more

09 Jun 15 @ 09:30

Zapp has unveiled the new ‘Pay by Bank app’ paymark, a universal symbol indicating to consumers that a retailer accepts a Zapp-powered mobile payment from a bank app. Clicking the symbol online will... read more

05 Feb 15 @ 15:28

It will be increasingly difficult for banks to simply invest in doing the banking business digitally.Up to half of the world’s banks will disappear due to the digital disruption of the industry,... read more

02 Feb 15 @ 16:04

Nearly two million people have registered for Paym, with the potential to link every current account in the country with a phone number, new figures released by the service show. The mobile payments... read more

02 Feb 15 @ 10:39

The Brand Finance Banking 500, conducted by leading brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance, and published in the February edition of The Banker, is a league table of the... read more

28 Jan 15 @ 11:00

Understanding your customer’s mobile banking behaviour and what they want out of their digital experience and tools is key to any bank wanting to compete in the digital revolution, where the... 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

25 Nov 14 @ 12:38

More than half of UK consumers (54%) now say they often or always use digital wallets to pay for goods online. This is according to a survey of 2,000 UK... read more

20 Oct 14 @ 17:07

Royal Bank of Scotland is set to enter the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market in the latest sign that alternative finance is gaining traction by moving into the mainstream. The high street bank is... read more

08 Oct 14 @ 11:36

UK mobile payment provider Zapp has announced a wide range of retail partnerships across a range of sectors like Asda, Sainsbury’s, House of Fraser, Thomas Cook and Shop Direct (including... read more

18 Sep 14 @ 09:00

Yaap, the joint-venture between CaixaBank, Banco Santander and Telefónica, has releases Yaap money – a mobile app that facilitates the secure transfer of P2P payments instantaneously between users’ mobile phones.... read more