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Wirecard to enable mobile payments for Kairos Watches
Wirecard and Kairos Watches have announced a collaboration in the field of mobile payment services for wearables. Kairos will use Wirecard`s Payment Software Development Kit for its unique offering of hybrid mechanical smart watches and T-Bands. Wirecard will therefore enable Kairos to offer contactless payment transactions and value added services on every NFC-based terminal around the world. [...]
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Retail Banks turn to IT to drive revenue in 2015
Retail bank IT investment in 2015 will be focused squarely on driving revenue growth, according to new research from Ovum, the global analyst house. Digital channels will be at the heart of this activity, particularly as the improving economy has meant reducing costs and headcount is no longer a priority. The large majority of investment [...]
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Cybercrime bigger than drug trade
In an extraordinary presentation at a TechUK event Adrian Leppard, the City of London police commissioner attacked the big banks by saying that cybercrime may now be bigger than the drug trade, and the police do not have enough resources to tackle it. Leppard claimed that 80% of cybercrimes go unreported and of the 20% which do, [...]
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Card Fraud Report 2015 – now available
Card Fraud is the driver of major industry initiatives such as EMV implementation to combat the use of lost, stolen and counterfeit cards, while 3D-Secure authentication protects against the fraudulent use of stolen card details online. But what is the scale of card fraud losses in selected European countries, Canada and the USA and how does [...]
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Judo Payments builds mobile payments SDK for Xamarin
Judo Payments has announced the launch of its mobile app payments software development kit (SDK) for mobile development solution Xamarin. Xamarin’s platform enables developers to build apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac with a single, shared C# codebase – using the same language, APIs and data structure on every platform. Judo has seen a growing [...]
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