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UK card fraud losses climbed by 18% in 2015, the sharpest rise in Europe, driven by online shopping and data breaches.
04 August 2016
AXA has formed an alliance with Alibaba that will see the French insurance firm develop products and services for the Chinese e-commerce behemoth's customers.
29 July 2016
MasterCard and PayPal have engaged in a "constructive dialogue" about a possible strategic alliance, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Four Australian banks are joining forces to negotiate with Apple and be allowed to offer their own payment services on the tech giant's hardware.
27 July 2016
India is set for a digital payments revolution, with the value of transactions set to hit US$500 billion by 2020, ten times its current level, according to research from Google and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
PayPal has agreed to make it easier for customers to pay with their Visa cards in exchange for long-term "fee certainty" from the card scheme.
21 July 2016
UK payment processing firm Worldpay is experiencing ongoing problems issuing payments despite promising to work with clients to resolve the software issue.
20 July 2016
Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest UK high street bank to launch a mentoring service for fintech startups.
18 July 2016
The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.
14 July 2016
More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.
With PSD2 looming, German regulator Bundeskartellamt has ruled that the country's banking industry is violating competition law by putting up barriers that hinder competing online payments services.
08 July 2016
The prevalence of mobile banking in Europe is soaring, with nearly half of phone owners now managing their finances through their handsets, new research commissioned by ING suggests.
07 July 2016
Apple is extending its payments service to the web, enabling shoppers that use its Safari browser to complete purchases by touching the fingerprint reader on their iPhones.
13 June 2016
Britain's love affair with plastic continues to grow, with rising online and contactless transactions driving spending on debit and credit cards up 10% to £660 billion in 2015.
10 June 2016
A new payment network is aiming to help banks turn compliance with the latest payment services directive into a money-spinning exercise.
07 June 2016
In a move that will affect hundreds of thousands of consumers and thousands of businesses, PayPal says that it is shutting down in Turkey next week after local regulators rejected its license applications.
31 May 2016
Google has moved to make it easier for developers to integrate Android Pay for in-app and web payments with "just a few lines of code".
19 May 2016
Google's Android Pay has launched in the UK, enabling millions of Brits to make contactless instore and in-app payments with their handsets.
18 May 2016
Apple has finally struck deals with Canada's banks to bring its mobile payments services to the country's Visa, MasterCard and Interac cardholders.
10 May 2016
As they increasingly bank online and through their mobiles, many Europeans say that they would leave providers that do not offer up-to-date technology, a survey from Fujitsu shows.
04 May 2016
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