18 Mar 16 @ 11:22

Blockchain has traditionally been a subject of mitigated opinions, due to its early association with bitcoin, the cryptocurrency adopted by techies all around the world, and also used on anonymous... read more

21 Dec 15 @ 14:00

Nearly two months ahead of the 1 February 20161 regulatory deadline which will require Eurozone Payment Service Providers (PSPs) to process SEPA payments using only the IBAN2 – rather than the BIC... read more

10 Dec 15 @ 16:39

Oh dear. Walmart has announced that it will get into the mobile payments business with Walmart Pay, the first US retailer to make its own push for consumers to use their... read more

10 Dec 15 @ 11:00

VocaLink has signed a contract with The Clearing House (TCH) to develop a national real-time payment service in the US. In October, the two companies announced they had signed a... read more

16 Sep 15 @ 08:38

Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, are planning to develop common standards for blockchain technology in an effort to broaden its use across... read more

10 Aug 15 @ 16:31

A global scheme aimed at establishing a set of harmonised standards for cross-border real-time payments has published a first draft of ISO 20022 messages for review. The ISO Real-Time Payments... read more

21 May 15 @ 14:16

Global interoperability of real-time payments systems will require harmonisation of market practices and standards. A group of international clearing houses, banks, vendors, payments associations and other parties have proposed setting... read more

23 Apr 15 @ 13:11

A new research paper by SWIFT assesses the global real-time retail payments systems (RT-RPS) landscape, provides analysis on the key drivers and trends, and identifies the different approaches, barriers to... 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

16 Mar 15 @ 12:10

The PPRO Group, will collaborate in Europe with Alipay to offer new payment options for online shoppers of AliExpress, a global online marketplace for consumers to buy directly from Chinese... read more

11 Feb 15 @ 13:26

Fraud and security: with the influx of high profile digital data breaches in the past year, businesses and consumers alike have grown increasingly concerned over the amount of sensitive personal... 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

03 Feb 15 @ 15:32

The PPRO Group, has partnered with Inpay, the FCA & FINMA regulated bank payments company, to offer global bank transfers from February 2015. Through the PPRO Group, Inpay will enable... read more

05 Jan 15 @ 16:15

Test tool specialist FIME has announced that its laboratories in Asia, EMEA and Korea have been qualified to perform official NFC Forum analogue certification testing. These FIME laboratories are now... read more

25 Dec 14 @ 09:00

Apple and IBM delivered their first set of business-centric applications for iPhone and iPad users, following their landmark deal to work together in the enterprise computing space earlier this year.... read more

12 Dec 14 @ 11:05

Apple Pay and ATMs are included on Woburn, Mass.-based data-security services provider Kaspersky Lab Inc.’s newly released list of nine security predictions for 2015. The top targets will be banks, which... 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 @ 12:38

It has been disclosed that venture capital investment in European payment companies is surpassing dotcom boom levels, boosted by the fast take-up of digital technologies and shifts in consumer behaviour.... read more

24 Nov 14 @ 12:18

Visa Inc. the world’s largest credit and debit card company, believes it might have to pay more than $10 billion to buy its London-based European licensee, Visa Europe Ltd, if its owners... read more

30 Sep 14 @ 14:22

Non-cash payments volumes are expected to grow 9.4% to reach 366 billion transactions in 20131, fueled by strong growth in developing markets and the use of credit (up 9.9%) and... read more