24 Sep 14 @ 15:28

The British Bankers Association (BBA) is to build a new alert system that will see 12 government and law enforcement agencies warn banks of the latest cyber threats to financial crime,... read more

23 Sep 14 @ 10:33

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and other EU supervisory authorities have warned banks to reinforce IT controls and audits on third-party technology providers with relation to operational and IT risk. The Joint Committee of... read more

28 May 14 @ 12:31

Finland’s banking industry is hoping to establish a real-time payments system and has invited potential suppliers to make their pitches. The country’s current ‘urgent’ payment system, dubbed Pops, was built... read more

27 May 14 @ 12:59

Apple has filed another NFC related patent on May 22nd giving a clue that we can expect exclusive circuitry for NFC in the next iPhone. The patent states that different... read more

24 Apr 14 @ 11:52

The SIMalliance membership, which represents approximately 86% of the global SIM market, has reported SIM shipment volumes totalling 4.2 billion units for 2013, compared to 4.6 billion in 2012. The... read more

18 Feb 14 @ 13:54

AccessPay is delighted to announce their strategic partnership with Raphaels Bank. The partnership offers corporates and financial institutions cloud-based payments and direct debit management solutions – all without the end-user... read more

03 Feb 14 @ 16:56

US payments industry deployment of EMV technology accelerated in 2013 to help combat rising card fraud, but widespread industry adoption of US EMV still faces multiple obstacles. Merchants remain suspect... read more

15 Jan 14 @ 10:38

Big news for Zapp this week – 5 of the major UK retail banks have signed up to Zapp, meaning 18 million UK customers will have access to Zapp when... read more

02 Dec 13 @ 12:27

The European Union says it has received written assurances from the US government that NSA spies did not tap into financial messaging data transmitted over the interbank Swift network and... read more

25 Oct 13 @ 11:17

The European Parliament has voted to suspend the sharing of financial data with the US, following allegations that citizens’ data was spied on. The allegation forms part of leaked documents from... read more

03 Oct 13 @ 15:43

Traditional shopping methods are still winning the hearts, minds and wallets of British consumers according to Payment Generation Gap, a new analysis of British shoppers’ payments habits but shoppers want faster... read more

16 Sep 13 @ 17:30

Global non-cash payments volumes are expected to top 333 billion transactions in 2012 after transactions grew by 8.8% in 2011, according to the latest available data from the World Payments... read more

19 Jul 13 @ 02:19

UK citizens are being denied swift access to financial support and emergency payments because the Government has failed to grasp the opportunities now offered through emerging payments technologies from SMEs... read more

23 May 13 @ 00:00

WorldPay has launched Bankout, a service that gives merchants the ability to make cost-effective, low-value cross-border payments with guaranteed amounts delivered to recipients and no receiving bank charges. Matched with WorldPay’s... read more

14 Mar 13 @ 00:00

European corporates continue to underestimate the work involved in complying with new SEPA regulations, which become mandatory on 1st February 2014. With the SEPA deadline fast approaching, an interactive webinar &... read more

23 Jan 13 @ 00:00

CHARGE Anywhere has signed a distribution partnership with Tech It Easy (TIE), a retail sales and support of telecommunications products provider, in the Virgin Islands. TIE is expanding their service... read more