05 Apr 17 @ 11:39

It has been almost 20 years since the paradigm shift in transaction transport, which made simple payment gateway integration available to an exploding community of web developers. Payment gateways became... read more

05 Apr 17 @ 11:26

More than 12 European countries will have adopted the Visa Token Service by the end of this year, says the card giant. Tokenisation makes mobile and online payments more secure... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 12:58

The US Payments Forum has announced the mobile and contactless payments working committee to explore the opportunities and challenges for the variety mobile and contactless payments solutions being implemented in... read more

03 Feb 17 @ 12:07

Discover Financial Services (DFS) and PayPal have signed a tokenisation and digital payments agreement making PayPal more widely available to Discover cardmembers, acquirers and merchants. The agreement provides PayPal with... read more

30 Jan 17 @ 12:04

In attempt to accelerate its digital commerce ambitions, Visa has agreed the acquisition of card-not-present authentication firm CardinalCommerce. Visa already provides Cardinal’s services to acquirers and merchants through its CyberSource... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:26

THERE HAS BEEN much written about the Australian banks pushing Apple Pay to loosen its grip on the technology that enables mobile payments. The result could bode well for US... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

PULSE DEBIT CARD issuers saw card performance metrics in 2015 hold steady, according to a recent study. However the adoption of mobile payments and EMV chip migration has been disappointing.... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 09:46

NETS HAS BEEN selected by Danish banking collective, the BOKIS partnership, to launch a new NFC mobile wallet solution powered by its HCE and tokenisation platform. The BOKIS partnership includes... read more

03 Aug 16 @ 07:35

IT’S BEEN A busy 60 days in the world of mobile payments with further roll-outs, new entrants and a prominent withdrawal. PCM rounds up the latest state of Pay. HANDSET... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:31

Worldline and Gemalto have announced an agreement to speed up and simplify deployment of mobile payment wallets. Under the agreement Worldline will provide tokenisation via its token service provider platform,... read more

25 May 16 @ 08:16

DESPITE THE RETAIL industry’s ambition to move to an omni-channel payments strategy, only a minority of retailers have completed an omni-channel payments programme, according to a survey of nearly 100... read more

05 Apr 16 @ 07:00

Advancements in digital technology continued to shape the payments industry in 2015 as mobile, online and other digital forms of payments moved into the mainstream. From mass transit to gas... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 10:44

Cards and card payment at the point of sale (POS) and online showed solid growth rates in most European countries in 2014, supported by the roll-out of contactless technology. The... read more

09 Nov 15 @ 14:49

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that you’ll do things differently,” said US investor Warren Buffet.  We look... read more

02 Oct 15 @ 07:57

Everything changed on 6 August 1991 when the first webpage was launched. Nearly 25 years on, we look at the state of the cyber nation, the battle between cyber attackers... read more

01 Oct 15 @ 08:08

Various social media platforms have recently announced plans to allow trading on their sites via ‘buy buttons’. We examine the implications for merchants and acquirers. by Joyrene Thomas In the... read more

30 Jul 15 @ 16:48

Momentum behind mobile is building with Google, Apple and Samsung all announcing plans for their mobile payment solutions. For face-to-face payments, Android Pay and Apple Pay both use standard EMV... read more

31 May 15 @ 15:07

BBVA is teaming up with the Dwolla digital currency platform to enable consumers to make real-time payments. BBVA Compass is bypassing the traditional routes and using Dwolla’s FiSync protocol, which... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 17:18

Proxama has unveiled details of its new end-to-end mobile proximity marketing and payments proposition following the acquisition of Aconite Technology last year. It will enable card issuers and financial institutions... read more

30 Mar 15 @ 16:26

Apple Pay has breathed new life into tokenisation and the use of tokenisation has seen a revival due to new technology approaches that remove associated operational risks and complexities and... read more