17 Feb 16 @ 15:31

The Strawhecker Group (TSG) has released survey results that estimate 37% of US merchant locations are EMV ready four months after the October 1st, 2015 liability shift. TSG’s previous survey... read more

16 Feb 16 @ 09:00

SIMalliance published an illustration intended to help NFC service providers to understand the cost considerations of different NFC deployment models. The illustration compares the known and hidden conceptual costs of... read more

15 Feb 16 @ 18:19

Following on from the initial investigation in September 2015, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has cleared banks of any wrongdoing in its inquiry into the withdrawal of banking services... read more

15 Feb 16 @ 11:49

Mobile wallet transactions number in the European Union will experience a CAGR of 61.8% over 2016-2021, ensuring the revenue for the payments industry will pass the €1 billion bar by... read more

15 Feb 16 @ 09:07

LG Electronics has announced it will delay plan to launch the LG Pay mobile payments system at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), The Korea Times reports, citing an unnamed company... read more

10 Feb 16 @ 09:30

In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cybercrime...

09 Feb 16 @ 13:08

With major smartphone brands Apple and Samsung making a big entrance into...

09 Feb 16 @ 12:59

Innocuous devices, the Internet of Things search engine Shodan recently found to be vulnerable to cyber attacks, include a teddy bear able to remotely send voice messages

04 Feb 16 @ 16:39

On learning that his obituary had been published, Mark Twain telegraphed: “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. The same could be said of the cheque.

04 Feb 16 @ 16:31

The power within the payment value chain in Asia is shifting to Gen Y consumers aged 25-34, a new study finds.

04 Feb 16 @ 15:24

As of December 9, interchange regulation, which caps rates in Europe are now capped at 30 bps for credit cards (commercial cards excluded) and 20 bps for debit and prepaid cards.

03 Feb 16 @ 15:23

Barclays, has revealed that it will support Apple Pay from March. The bank been the only major financial institution in the UK that had not announced its support for apple’s mobile payments. Customers at Barclays... read more

03 Feb 16 @ 11:23

What a difference twelve months can make. Industry conversations at 2014’s Mobey Day, (Mobey Forum’s annual open conference for all mobile money stakeholders) told of an industry undergoing major FinTech... read more

02 Feb 16 @ 11:16

Recent First Annapolis consumer research suggests that only one in five iPhone 6 users has made a purchase with Apple Pay, and that the overall adoption rate for Apple Pay... read more

01 Feb 16 @ 12:02

Contactless card payments achieved a breakthrough in Europe in 2014, as the number of payments grew by 155% – a figure which is forecast to continue to soar over the... read more

29 Jan 16 @ 11:27

Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised,... read more

29 Jan 16 @ 11:17

The payments industry is no stranger to the increasing reach of regulation. With the EU Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions coming into force earlier this year, together with near-term... read more

29 Jan 16 @ 10:38

The recent publication of cybercrime statistics by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the German Federal Criminal Office, raises almost as many questions as it answers. As with any official cybercrime statistics, perhaps... read more

27 Jan 16 @ 10:21

It was only a few years ago that banks owned the financial sector – the only way to pay, transfer and save money was via a traditional bank. The supremacy... read more

26 Jan 16 @ 12:03

The 2015 Q4 edition (Sept-Dec) of the quarterly Mobile Payments Index, which tracks mobile payment data from browser-based transactions across Adyen’s customer base has been released. The key finding of this Mobile... read more