15 Oct 13 @ 18:23

The Dexter malware has struck again. This time, South African banks have suffered an estimated tens of millions of rand in losses due to a major breach of customer card... read more

11 Oct 13 @ 09:43

Safaricom’s M-Pesa platform may soon be open for use by other mobile payment services providers if new regulations published by the Central Bank of Kenya are placed into effect. The... read more

08 Oct 13 @ 18:46

Microsoft is launching a limited test of a new Bing Offers feature in the Seattle market that could give it an edge over some of its competitors. In this test... read more

08 Oct 13 @ 16:45

MasterCard  has identified Belgium, France and Canada are the closest to cashless economies and China and UAE have the fastest trajectory, in a new global report, “The Cashless Journey,” that... read more

08 Oct 13 @ 15:33

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released the U.S. Mobile Payments Landscape – Two Years Later, which examines changes in the evolution of mobile POS retail payments... read more

01 Oct 13 @ 13:11

The most recent findings from its Global Mobile Payments Index covering the period May – August 2013 period, which showed that mobile payment transactions on its platform jumped by 27%... read more

30 Sep 13 @ 09:41

a new study from London-based strategic research and consulting firm RBR, “Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2018”, predicts the installed base of ATMs across the world is forecast to grow... read more

26 Sep 13 @ 09:33

Facebook has rolled out “Autofill With Facebook” feature in partnership with PayPal, Stripe and Braintree to put an end to all typing required while filling in billing details. The social media giant tested this application... read more

23 Sep 13 @ 12:02

In somewhat of a coup, Google Wallet has beaten Apple at its own game, launching Google Wallet for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch before the incumbent could launch its own wallet... read more

18 Sep 13 @ 11:42

Google was one of the earliest big-name companies to move in the developing mobile payments market, but Wallet – its flagship payments solution – had more or less disappeared from... read more

18 Sep 13 @ 10:49

Nearly 400 million mobile phone users worldwide are expected to use their handsets for mobile money transfer by 2018, up from just under 150 million this year, according to a... read more

17 Sep 13 @ 10:03

MasterCard today launched the Road to Inclusion, a report which shows preconceptions of the financially excluded are wide of the mark, based on a new financial inclusion study that is the... 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

16 Sep 13 @ 16:56

The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT... read more

06 Sep 13 @ 12:10

The trends for the second quarter of 2013 are consistent with the first quarter of the year.  The nation’s largest credit card issuers reported strong profits despite relatively stagnant quarter-over-quarter... read more

05 Sep 13 @ 12:18

FICO released its quarterly UK cards data showing that average credit card limits are at their highest point in over two years. Consumer spending has also increased, while delinquency rates are... read more

05 Sep 13 @ 11:24

Consumers are being put off making mobile payments through existing providers by security fears, lengthy sign-up processes and problems making payments outside of individual schemes, according to new research published... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 16:36

Big data analytics startup ERN has signed the first client up to its “Looop” Big Data Analytics Platform, six months after unveiling it at the Finovate Europe 2013 conference. The... read more

02 Sep 13 @ 17:25

The estimated size of the global core banking market is $8.6 billion in 2013. Celent predicts it will grow at a 4.0% rate over the next four years, reaching $10.1... read more

02 Sep 13 @ 16:55

Providers have been updating the ATM channel with new features and services including innovations in deposit making such as envelope-free deposits. This activity has resulted in an increase in deposit... read more