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Boston Fed provides update on mobile payments
The Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup of the Boston Federal Reserve has released the outcome of its May 2014 meeting on...
ECB identifies payment systems for oversight
The European Central Bank (ECB) has named four key payment systems – Target2, Euro1, Step2-T and Core(Fr) – as “systemically...
eBay’s Braintree could accept bitcoin
Online auction site eBay is planning to integrate bitcoin into its Braintree payments service. The move comes after executives from...
Retail malware: PCI-DSS is part of the problem
When the Payments Card Industry Data Security Program (PCI-DSS) was first introduced in 2004, the move was in response to...
Juncker considers creating financial services tsar
A new European Union (EU) financial services tsar tasked with regulation and ensuring financial stability in the EU would be...
PSD2: A ‘bull by the horns’ approach to open access
As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward...
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...
EU Banking Authority warns financial institutions to avoid virtual currencies
Europe’s Banking Authority has warned its financial institutions to avoid dealing in Bitcoins and other virtual currencies until a forthcoming regulatory regime...