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UK’s Payments Council in merger talks with British Bankers Association
The UK banking industry’s main lobbying group, the British Bankers Association, is considering a proposal to merge with at least...
Westpac trials HCE digital wallet technology
Westpac is trialling Host Card Emulation mobile payments (HCE digital wallet), the first bank in New Zealand to actively do...
Global Mobile Payments Index Q2 2014: UK Ahead of Rest of World
Adyen announced findings from its latest global Mobile Payments Index covering the period of April through June 2014. During this...
Visa Europe to use biometrics for payment authentication
In a recent blog post, Jonathan Vaux, director of new payment propositions at Visa Europe attributes the increase in the popularity of card-on-file...
Facebook gets busy in payments
Social network giant Facebook is testing a “buy” button which would enable users to purchase products featured on advertisements or...
UK banks face competition probe
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is planning to launch an investigation into the UK retail banking sector in...
Venture capital funding for payments on the wane
Despite a slew of funding rounds for payment industry start-ups over the last few years, venture capital providers are backing...
ACI Worldwide acquires anti-fraud specialist ReD
Global payment solution vendor ACI Worldwide is to acquire UK-based payment fraud prevention outfit Retail Decisions (ReD) for $205 million...