04 May 17 @ 15:51

Monitise FINkit has announced the key findings from its research into senior banking executives’ priorities, challenges, and future plans surrounding open banking. The study, carried out by independent researchers LM Research,... read more

03 May 17 @ 11:48

A new cyber security report revealed new levels of ambition in 2016, a year marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists, overt attempts to disrupt the US electoral... read more

28 Apr 17 @ 13:16

The FCA says that UK financial institutions have recorded nearly 3m complaints over their products or services in the last six months of 2016. The figures, published on Wednesday, provide a snapshot... read more

27 Apr 17 @ 09:44

Connectivity is changing the world and the way we interact with one another. Last year, figures showed that the global population owned around 6 billion connected devices, approaching one for... read more

26 Apr 17 @ 16:34

Money has taken on many forms over millennia; our relationship with currency often alters along with it. Lately, a key theme has been technological change to a cashless society: notes... read more

26 Apr 17 @ 12:01

Australian merchants have reported that cash receivables plummeted by 46% between 2010 and 2016, new research from market analysts East & Partners has found. Should this trend continue, cash payments... read more

24 Apr 17 @ 14:09

A new UN study reveals that social network payments through Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled $2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments in 2016, representing a 20-fold increase in the past four... read more

21 Apr 17 @ 16:42

BBVA just completed the first real-life implementation of an international money transfer using Ripple’s new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The transaction, running on BBVA infrastructures with real money, successfully completed... read more

21 Apr 17 @ 13:45

This year marks 50 years since the introduction of the first ATM, which was put into use by Barclays in its Enfield branch in north London on 27th June 1967.... read more

19 Apr 17 @ 11:39

Samsung has announced the launch of the Contactless Companion Platform (CCP) together with its ecosystem partners, Smartlink and Ingenico, built with its dual interface smart card chip for Digital Cash... read more

18 Apr 17 @ 13:39

Swift has revealed a service designed to help banks spot fraudulent messages and avoid a repeat of the now infamous Bangladesh Bank hack. Customers are able to integrate the service directly into... read more

13 Apr 17 @ 10:35

Mobile banking not only makes our life easier, it gives access to banking services to those that have none. A new series of standards just published will provide the platform... read more

11 Apr 17 @ 13:22

When Apple launched its Apple Pay mobile payment service more than two years ago, it hoped to speed up the checkout process and, ultimately, to replace physical wallets for US... read more

11 Apr 17 @ 12:13

Open innovation is undoubtedly one of the drivers behind PSD2. However, the trend towards open banking and APIs is a global one that goes beyond European legislation. And effects more... read more

06 Apr 17 @ 17:17

Security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform, show that 78% are missing critical security patches, while 5% are confirmed to have payment card data harvesting... read more

04 Apr 17 @ 11:54

The 2016 Breach Level Index Report has been published revealing that cyber criminals managed 1,792 data breaches leading to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase... read more

28 Mar 17 @ 12:16

The latest Threat Intelligence Report reveals a new all-time high in mobile device malware infections, a sharp increase in compromised smartphones and major IoT device security vulnerabilities. Issued twice per year, the... read more

28 Mar 17 @ 10:58

UK e-commerce sales were up +15% year-on-year (YoY) in February, according to the latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, building on solid growth in February 2016 (+16%). For... read more

28 Mar 17 @ 10:37

First Annapolis has been closely monitoring European payment card products since October 2015 to identify issuers’ reactions to interchange regulation implemented in December 2015, and to track the evolution of... read more

27 Mar 17 @ 12:24

With the EU’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and open architecture framework set to come into force next year, regulation may well tip the scales between banks and FinTechs for... read more