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The UK's new payment system operator has appointed former Nationwide Building Society exec Paul Horlock as chief executive, overseeing the consolidation of Bacs, the Cheque and Credit Clearing Company and the Faster Payments Scheme.
27 September 2017
Japanese banks are fighting back against the threat from China's Alibaba with plans to introduce their own digital currency in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
26 September 2017
BBVA is using commercial card data to redraw the maps of urban areas based on the purchasing patterns and movements of consumers as they criss-cross the city landscape.
Nordic payments processor Nets has received a $5.3 billion takeover offer from US private equity firm Hellman & Friedman.
25 September 2017
Swedish mPOS vendor iZettle is to get EUR30 million in debt funding from the European Investment Bank to help it better understand the technology needs of small companies.
19 September 2017
Apple's peer-to-peer payments feature will not go live with the launch of iOS 11 tomorrow but will arrive this Autumn, enabling users to send money and get paid in Messages.
18 September 2017
Dutch bank ING says that a contactless charity donation box trial has proved a big hit, resulting in the value of average donations more than doubling that seen with old fashioned cash collection tins.
The details of more than 200,000 Visa and Mastercard cards were stolen during the recent cyber-breach at credit referencing firm Equifax.
15 September 2017
Monzo is ditching free overseas ATM withdrawals after concluding that the feature is costing it too much. However, rather than simply imposing a fee, the UK digital bank is now asking customers to vote on how it should charge them.
13 September 2017
Visa has appointed former Bank of England deputy governor and chief operating officer Charlotte Hogg as the new head of its European operations.
08 September 2017
Despite the wave of costly data breaches over the last few years, nearly half of global firms that accept plastic are still failing to meet Payment Cards Industry (PCI) security standards, according to a report from Verizon.
01 September 2017
Mastercard is prepping a pilot that will see small businesses in Poland able to accept contactless payments with only a smartphone.
30 August 2017
PayPal has come up with a novel new weapon to help it take over the high street - an old-fashioned plastic credit card.
Fitbit has struck deals Visa, Mastercard and American Express to bring NFC payments to its new Ionic smartwatch.
28 August 2017
Barclaycard is aiming to put an end to ice-cream van queue meltdowns through the introduction of a cone-tactless system that lets customers pay with a tap of their card or phone before pouring their own vanilla soft-serve.
25 August 2017
The growth of online banking and digital currencies haver been cited as the main causes of a massive rise in organised crime in Australia's financial sector according to the country's criminal intelligence agency.
24 August 2017
Mobile tap-and-pay spending is accelerating on the high street, spurred by the growing popularity of contactless payments at the point-of-sale, according to new data from Worldpay.
17 August 2017
Walter Merricks, the man spearheading a £14 billion class action lawsuit against Mastercard for overcharging customers, has lodged an appeal against a tribunal's decision to dismiss the claim.
14 August 2017
The numbers of people using cash to pay for everyday purchases in the UK declined by 11% over the past year as growth in contactless card use accelerated.
11 August 2017
Barclays has appointed Citi digital payments exec Barry Rodrigues chief executive officer of its Barclaycard International unit.
10 August 2017
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