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More than 1.5 billion smart payment cards were shipped in 2014 as the rise of contactless and America's migration to EMV technology drove growth.
05 February 2015
Individuals can be identified from just four pieces of credit card metadata, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found.
30 January 2015
Scammers have duped unsuspecting victims out of at least $11 million in bitcoin over the last four years, according to researchers from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
The US Federal Reserve has set out a series of options for speeding up the country's antiquated payments system.
26 January 2015
With only nine months to go until the US EMV migration deadline, more than half of retailers are not ready for the switch, according to a survey from ACI Worldwide.
23 January 2015
More than 11% of Android banking and finance-related apps contain malware or suspicious binaries, according to research from RiskIQ.
22 January 2015
Institutional investors around the world spent more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in market structure and lower trading costs, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.
12 January 2015
Despite the hype surrounding big data, three quarters of North American bankers are dissatisfied with analytics technology, according to research from Aite Group.
09 January 2015
American Express is tapping into its Serve software platform for a research pilot into the savings behaviour of customers.
16 December 2014
Despite ever-growing volumes of data, just over half of banks still think that not having enough is the greatest obstacle to better risk management, according to a survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
11 December 2014
Plans by Wall Street watchdog Finra to introduce an automated data collection system designed to help identify risky and suspicious activities have been blasted by lobby group Sifma on cost, security and privacy grounds.
02 December 2014
As November approaches, data science company Feedzai is warning that the month is the fraudsters' favourite, when both card-present and card-not-present crime spike.
31 October 2014
A significant proportion of North Americans - 40% - have used their smartphones to make payments at merchant locations, up from just 16% two years ago, according to an Accenture survey.
30 October 2014
Bitcoin's notoriously volatile price may look like it bounces around arbitrarily but an MIT computer scientist has developed a machine-learning algorithm that appears to have found a pattern in the mayhem, helping him to nearly double his investment in less than two months.
23 October 2014
The value of fintech-related mergers and acquisitions hit $10 billion in the last three months, with deals involving payments firms dominating, data from investment bank Berkery Noyes shows.
22 October 2014
A cyber-crook has uploaded the details of more than five million cards, many of them stolen during the data breach at US retailer Target, to a Russian carding site, says security firm Group-IB.
17 October 2014
Online and mobile platforms are the leading focus of technology investments for retail banks as they move to increase the functionality of their digital offerings, according to a BAI survey.
15 October 2014
Nearly half of overall US Treasury trading volume is now executed electronically, with Bloomberg and Tradeweb dominating the fast-changing market, according to Greenwich Associates.
03 October 2014
Banks and brokers could save millions of euros if they act fast to adapt their securities and cash supply chains for Target2-Securities (T2S), according to Clearstream commissioned research.
09 September 2014
Nearly two thirds of UK financial services firms consider cloud computing very or somewhat critical to their enterprise IT strategy but security and regulatory concerns about the technology persist, according to research from Finextra.
02 September 2014
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