17 Apr 15 @ 12:45

Global Risk Technologies (GRT) recently examined friendly fraud, and found approximately 86% of chargebacks are fraudulent, and many consumers bypass merchants to directly file complaints with card-issuing banks. GRT CIO... read more

13 Apr 15 @ 16:57

Half of European adults with access to a mobile device such as a smart phone or tablet computer expect to use mobile payment apps over the next 12 months, according... read more

13 Apr 15 @ 12:01

Just months after Apple Pay went live, the adoption rate came in at an impressive 11% of all credit card-owning households and 66% of iPhone 6 owners, according to new... read more

02 Apr 15 @ 11:25

The Payment Systems Regulator, which launched on Wednesday, will open up access of the infrastructure underpinning financial transactions, from mobile payments to house purchases. The largest lenders, such as Lloyds,... read more

01 Apr 15 @ 14:56

The recent release of the annual UK fraud figures describes an interesting picture of some successes and some areas for continued concern and renewed action. First, the headline successes. Fraud... read more

27 Mar 15 @ 12:39

Research and opinion on mobile payment trends contain conflicting predictions and conclusions, partly as a result of banks commissioning fewer market studies, leaving researchers to find a new starting point... read more

26 Mar 15 @ 12:18

Recorded fraud victims increased by 25% last year, according to the latest report from the UK fraud prevention service, Cifas, published today. In total there were 276,993 frauds recorded in... read more

24 Mar 15 @ 15:07

New research from remittance specialist Azimo, demonstrates that the percentage of money transfers sent from mobile phones has more than doubled in the 12 months to January 2015. Azimo’s research found that... read more

24 Mar 15 @ 11:42

A major new report sets out key recommendations for the banking industry and urges regulators to give consumers certainty that their money is equally well-protected wherever they choose to bank.... read more

20 Mar 15 @ 11:41

In a recent survey of over 300 global business professionals by Timetric, respondents were asked if they use mobile phones for payments and if it is set to change over... read more

18 Mar 15 @ 10:20

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the number of active Bitcoin users worldwide will reach 4.7 million by the end of 2019, up from just over 1.3... read more

16 Mar 15 @ 12:28

IBM is rumoured to be considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the blockchain, to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person... read more

13 Mar 15 @ 11:59

Experian has revealed that fraud detection rates have increased during the past year*, with around 50 frauds now being detected per 10,000 cases during Q4 2014 – compared to 40 frauds detected... read more

12 Mar 15 @ 11:00

We all instinctively know that mobile is a key channel for any number of things: from communications to gaming, on to navigation through to payments. The smartphone, heralded by the... read more

12 Mar 15 @ 10:24

Card Fraud Report 2015, in association with Alaric NCR, aims to give some insight into how card fraud is perpetrated in the selected regions, what are the drivers for this fraud, the defence mechanisms that the various countries can select to combat card fraud and the figures that surround the various types of card fraud.

11 Mar 15 @ 17:33

Four out of five global retailers and other merchants failed interim tests to determine whether they are in compliance with payment card data security standards (PCI DSS), putting them at... read more

09 Mar 15 @ 12:32

It’s hard to imagine what the Florentine market traders thought would be their impact on the world when they started the western world’s first formal system of lending. One thing... read more

06 Mar 15 @ 12:24

Digital currencies represent both innovations in payment systems and a new form of currency. This article examines the economics of digital currencies and presents an initial assessment of the risks... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 15:16

The European Central Bank has published a new report on digital currencies, describing them as “inherently unstable” whilst remaining upbeat about the potentially transformative benefits they may offer in payments. The ECB study builds... read more

04 Mar 15 @ 09:31

October 2015 marks a major milestone in the US payment industry’s migration to EMV as the liability shift comes into effect. After the liability shift, the party on a card... read more