25 Apr 19 @ 08:59

The combat against fraud was an important and recurring topic at the recent MPE, and not without reason. Card-not-present (CNP) fraud remains a focal point of attention for merchants and... read more

24 Apr 19 @ 12:15

Car makers, Big Tech and suppliers are all jostling to own customer relationships and data in the era of the connected car. Sound familiar? Everything is miscellaneous but somehow connected.... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 10:57

Analysis by Ravelin of millions of global business transactions reveals 22% of payments are lost when authenticated using 3D Secure. Improved user experience alone won’t cut it – online sellers... read more

16 Apr 19 @ 09:10

Antony Jenkins, founder and Executive Chairman at 10X Future Technologies, culminated a long and successful career in banking by running Barclays Plc. Before that, he ran the retail business at... read more

15 Apr 19 @ 12:53

Kaspersky Lab has published the results of an investigation into Genesis, an e-shop that is trading over 60,000 digital doppelgangers, stolen and legitimate digital identities, making successful credit card fraud that much... read more

10 Apr 19 @ 10:11

Newton’s Cradle (a highly favoured executive toy) was a common sound in offices for many years. If you cast your mind back to your schooldays you’ll no doubt remember that... read more

09 Apr 19 @ 13:04

The value of e-commerce mergers and acquisitions value grew by $20 billion over 2017’s figures, buoyed by massive transactions like Walmart’s acquisition of Indian e-retailer Flipkart ($16 billion), and Adobe’s... read more

09 Apr 19 @ 10:00

GATE (Global Acceptance Transaction Engine) has released its Mobile Wallet Trends Annual Report, highlighting trends in both mobile wallet and mobile payment usage across global markets. Mobile wallets are still... read more

08 Apr 19 @ 10:23

A recent research report by Bitwise Asset Management revealed that 95% of the reported trading volumes in Bitcoin by CoinMarketCap.com is fake and artificially created by unregulated exchanges. Surprisingly, this fake data... read more

03 Apr 19 @ 11:50

The biometrics market as a whole has grown substantially in recent years due in part to accuracy improvements in the algorithms used to support voice biometric authentication as well as... read more

02 Apr 19 @ 15:09

A range of pressures are bearing down on acquiring and processing businesses, including the emergence of new technologies such as faster payments and blockchain solutions – not to mention increasing... read more

02 Apr 19 @ 10:27

65% of merchants want to accept instant payments. That’s because they know the customer experience (CX) benefits will drive growth for their business, and they recognise that this payment type... read more

22 Mar 19 @ 16:01

Instagram has launched a new shopping function called Checkout on Instagram. The additional functionality, only currently available in the US with 20 big brands, means you can purchase directly through... read more

21 Mar 19 @ 16:50

A new report has found that the annual value of virtual cards (temporary card numbers only available for a single transaction or limited time) used by businesses will grow 90% over... read more

19 Mar 19 @ 16:34

McKinsey has announced the findings of a future of shopping survey conducted with 2,624 consumers in France, Germany, UK and the US. The research entitled, ‘The Future of Shopping: connected,... read more

18 Mar 19 @ 13:32

Nearly six in ten consumers would be willing to share significant personal data, such as location data and lifestyle information, with their bank and insurer in exchange for lower pricing... read more

14 Mar 19 @ 12:45

That banks are struggling with complexity and how to manage competing priorities is nothing new. However, the growth of mobile and now IoT payments means that banks need a back-end... read more

11 Mar 19 @ 17:14

According to the World Payments Report, the global volumes of non-cash transaction volumes grew by 10.1%, reaching 482.6 billion between 2015 and 2016. In addition, McKinsey’s recent Global Payments 2018... read more

08 Mar 19 @ 09:30

OK. So I will admit right from the start that this is not entirely about payments. However, if you read between the lines of this GSMA report,you will start to... read more

06 Mar 19 @ 14:25

Under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”), an Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (“ASPSP”) must grant a Third Party Providers (“TPP”) direct access to certain payment accounts of the... read more