22 Aug 14 @ 11:47

Online auction house eBay is considering selling its PayPal unit next year, according to media reports. Tech site ‘The Information’ stated that during interviews for the vacant position of president... read more

11 Aug 14 @ 11:53

Mobile proximity payments have to date proven lacklustre and despite hundreds of millions spent on developing these platforms, consumer take-up remains low. While the reasons for this are many, the... read more

07 Aug 14 @ 15:27

A leading digital identity expert has revealed the results of its new research The Rise of the Identity Centric Economy which found that 53% of UK consumers would never use... read more

06 Aug 14 @ 14:37

The government is to explore the role that digital currencies such as Bitcoin could play in the financial system and whether they need to be regulated. Chancellor George Osborne will... read more

04 Aug 14 @ 12:25

FICO has published its latest map of card fraud in Europe, showing that card fraud losses in 2013 for the 19 European countries studied reached €1.55 billion. This figure was... read more

29 Jul 14 @ 11:16

A global fraud study of more than 6,100 consumers across 20 countries revealed distrust among global consumers in retailers to protect their data. However, the study also reveals that consumers... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 16:06

As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward in Article 58 of the upcoming Payment Services Directive (PSD2)... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 10:20

Amazon has quietly released a new Android and Fire Phone app, dubbed Amazon Wallet, which lets users scan cards with their phone and save them in the Amazon cloud, so... read more

22 Jul 14 @ 15:09

Adyen announced findings from its latest global Mobile Payments Index covering the period of April through June 2014.  During this period, on average mobile web payments accounted for almost 22%... read more

22 Jul 14 @ 14:06

In a recent blog post, Jonathan Vaux, director of new payment propositions at Visa Europe  attributes the increase in the popularity of card-on-file payment to the growing use of biometrics for payment authentication. Vaux... read more

16 Jul 14 @ 15:30

In a small step towards Apple’s payments ambitions, and one giant leap for the Apple rumour mill, the high-tech firm has launched an iTunes-backed payments system — in Japan. The company has... read more

15 Jul 14 @ 13:38

A cybersecurity threat known as Shylock has been disrupted thanks to an international operation, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is reporting. Shylock was said to have been installed on... read more

15 Jul 14 @ 13:08

Europe’s Banking Authority has warned its financial institutions to avoid dealing in Bitcoins and other virtual currencies until a forthcoming regulatory regime has been established. It also laid out various elements that... read more

15 Jul 14 @ 12:58

In recent years, major retailers have embraced the use of “smart” technology in store fronts. From using tablets at the checkout counter to mobile credit applications, retailers are developing creative... read more

08 Jul 14 @ 16:38

As if the Isis mobile wallet venture was not suffering enough problems due to sluggish customer uptake, it has now been forced to rebrand itself in order to avoid confusion... read more

08 Jul 14 @ 16:32

Global mobile money specialist Monitise has seen its share price plummet more than 15% today after the company issued a trading update stating that its revenue growth this year would... read more

07 Jul 14 @ 19:29

Visa and MasterCard have reached a compromise agreement with Russian officials that would allow the global card payment companies to continue operating in the country. “MasterCard and Visa will continue business in Russia,”... read more

02 Jul 14 @ 09:02

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the annual transaction value of online, mobile and contactless payments (digital payments) will reach $4.7 trillion by 2019, up from just over $2.5... read more

25 Jun 14 @ 17:15

Datacard Group has announced that, in the US alone, financial institutions have instantly issued over 15 million cards this past year with Datacard instant issuance solutions. “We’ve seen that the US... read more

24 Jun 14 @ 16:03

Canada has implemented what is the first official national law on Bitcoin use. Its signing was quiet, notes Christine Duhaime, B.A., J.D., Financial Crime and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist of Duhaime Law.... read more