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In an effort to counter the decline in hard cash in consumer wallets, the Royal British Legion is to roll out 200 mobile terminals for people to make a donation to this year's Poppy Appeal with their contactless card.
20 October 2017
First Data has come clean about ongoing talks to buy North American payments processor Blue Pay after a draft news release announcing an agreed acquisition and conference call was inadvertently posted on the vendor's Website.
19 October 2017
Kaspersky Lab has discovered an ATM jackpotting kit for sale on the Dark Web which provides step-by-step instructions for non-techies to crack open a cash machine.
18 October 2017
Sir Tim Berners-Lee used his appearance at Sibos this morning to pitch the World Wide Web Consortium's efforts to streamline the online checkout experience and make payments more secure.
17 October 2017
Hackers have stolen millions of dollars from banks in former Soviet states by breaking into their IT networks to increase overdraft limits on fraudulently opened accounts and then making ATM withdrawals.
10 October 2017
Mastercard has opened its first innovation lab in India to work side-by-side with the local financial community on future technology breakthroughs in digital payments, data manipulation, financial inclusion and fraud prevention.
Europe saw a surge in the number of ATM black box attacks - where devices are attached to machines and command cash outs - in the first half of 2017.
06 October 2017
Germany's savings banks are planning a mass-market roll out of contactless mobile payments technology in 2018.
With card breaches at retailers becoming an everyday occurrence, MasterCard is arming banks with a tool that helps predict which customer accounts are most at risk of fraudulent activity following a third party compromise.
02 October 2017
UK startup Curve is promising to kill the dreaded job of doing expenses, letting users spend from all of their accounts on one card, sending the data straight to Xero accounting software.
Timex is to release a watch capable of making contactless payments by incorporating the Barclaycard bPay chip into the leather watchstrap.
29 September 2017
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
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