30 Jan 15 @ 13:51

Providing consumers with a secure alternative to an ever-increasing number of passwords and profiles without compromising convenience is the latest frontier in driving consumer acceptance of new forms of payment.... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 11:06

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecoms operator, has applied for a banking license, in a potential breakthrough for the country’s under-developed mobile-banking industry. The first telecoms group to declare its intention... read more

30 Jan 15 @ 10:59

“Everything changes but change itself. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on,” observed Heraclitus of Ephesus (circa 535 –... 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 @ 14:16

Following the release of the final compromise text for the proposed Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (the MIF Regulation) on 19 January 2015, European countries have finally... read more

21 Jan 15 @ 09:50

During 2014 we saw several occasions of significant political figures from the UK having a bitcoin friendly stance – is this all set to change in 2015. UK Shadow Minister Chi Onwurah and Chancellor of... read more

19 Jan 15 @ 09:20

It has emerged over the weekend that Google is leading talks to acquire Softcard, the troubled mobile payments company that is being eyed by a number of potential suitors, said people familiar... read more

16 Jan 15 @ 11:07

A lack of payment options are forcing customers to abandon their baskets and merchants to miss out on sales. Online retailers are dramatically losing out on sales by failing to address... read more

16 Jan 15 @ 10:55

In what has been a very short lived love affair, Google has stopped selling its Google Glasses product. Loved by few and lambasted by many the internet giant is shutting down... read more

15 Jan 15 @ 10:02

Big US banks are steering clear of an advanced security measure used in credit cards around the world, opting for a system that is more convenient for shoppers but may... read more

14 Jan 15 @ 12:16

The price of Bitcoin dropped again this week, sliding to its lowest level since early 2013, suggesting that confidence in the contentious cryptocurrency may be shrinking, dropping as low as... read more

12 Jan 15 @ 16:53

Amid rumours that owners AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless had decided to stop funding the NFC payments outfit little more than a year after its launch, Softcard, the... read more

08 Jan 15 @ 10:43

The annual IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index report offers a high-level overview of the major threats trending across businesses worldwide over the past year. This report will help you understand... read more

06 Jan 15 @ 13:49

A new report from IBM has found that despite a 50% decline in the number of cyber-attacks against US retailers in 2014, the number of records stolen from them remains... 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

25 Dec 14 @ 08:47

NCR Corporation has announced that Alaric, an NCR business, has released the latest version of its Fractals intelligent payment fraud detection solution. The latest version of Fractals, which is already being... read more

23 Dec 14 @ 10:50

In its fifth annual report on customer loyalty in retail banking, “Going Digical: Customers Love the Smart Fusion of Digital and Physical Assets”, Bain & Company, has found that for the... read more

22 Dec 14 @ 16:31

Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organisations and investigators, according to experts from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)... read more

19 Dec 14 @ 11:29

Suddenly the key EU’s stakeholders (ECB/EC) are talking again about technical payments interoperability and new payments networks.  Many may ask why, for they have struggled over 10 years to fully... read more

16 Dec 14 @ 11:21

In a blog post on December 11 from Microsoft, the software giant quietly announced that its customers can now use bitcoin to purchase certain products through third party payment processor BitPay,... read more