Asymmetric cryptography lies at the heart of digital security The asymmetric algorithms (e.g. RSA and ECC) are deemed not to be resistant to cryptanalysis methods that will be achievable with

Marqeta has raised $260 million in a Series E funding round led by Coatue Management, valuing the open API card issuing and processing platform at nearly $2 billion. Vitruvian Partners,

Brighton, 3rd May 2019 British technology company McLEAR has today announced an exciting new partnership with The Great Escape Festival TGE  (9th – 11th May, Brighton). For the first time

We are honoured to announce that Cybertonica team is named a finalist in 3 categories for the judging of the European Women Payments Network 2019 Awards, which will be held in Amsterdam on 4th June.

Lancashire-based Nitecrest Group has produced some of the first wave of biometric payment cards at its Visa and Mastercard secure facility, reports Jane Connolly. The card manufacturer claims it is

New research from Valitor reveals retailers are underestimating the importance of after payment experience: Over a third (34 percent) of consumers feel retailers don’t care about them after they’ve made

Emerging Payments Association has recently interviewed our Chief Commercial Officer Alan Nagle on how Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to manage fraud and risk. Read more here.

Festival goers will now be able to split the cost of their summer plans and pay for Hideout 2019 tickets thanks to Klarna and Stripe The partnership will be available

RegTech startup FrankieFinancial has signed Australian neo banks Xinja and Novatti Group to its financial systems aggregator platform, which provides a single point of access to ID verification, KYC, AML,

Leading digital banking and prepaid payments provider moves into leisure and gifting market by powering Virgin Experience Days’ services  8th May 2019, London – PrePay Solutions (PPS), a subsidiary of Edenred,

Trying to manage the chargeback process but aren’t happy with your ROI? come spend the morning with us. You’ll gain the inside track on fighting chargebacks effectively … and learn

Visa has completed the acquisition of UK-based Earthport, providing an entree for the card scheme into the $80 trillion account-to-account payments market. Visa made a surprise £198 million bid for

Bahrain’s national bank partners with Tarabut Gateway, Bahrain’s first licensed open banking systems provider, to enable customers to access new digital services and aggregate all their accounts from different banks

NatWest becomes Tink’s first partner in the UK as it continues to increase its European presence. Tink’s Personal Finance Management and Data Enrichment products will allow the bank to give

Checkout.com, the global payment solutions provider, announces today that it is taking funding from outside investors for the first time in its history, having raised $230m in what is Europe’s

We are currently observing a rapid digitisation of payment methods with the availability of services on a variety of personal terminals, such as Smartphones and connected objects. This trend is

Project Women in PayTech has published a review statement on how the project has created a platform to enable and support gender balance and professional development within the payments industry

Project Banking Access will be producing a practical guidance document ‘Guide to Bank Account Access’ that describes the options available to anyone with or wanting a bank account. Informed by

Project Inclusion championed the need to support the nation’s most vulnerable by providing the appropriate education and guidance to transit to inclusion in a report by the BBC. In an

Representatives from the Project Financial Crime team met with HM Treasury to inform the UK government’s Economic Crime plan. Nine member companies from across the Project Financial Crime team shared

The next Project Futures workshop will be held on Wednesday 19th June and will be focused on the impact of new lending and credit services on payment service providers. The

Representatives from Project International Trade met with Invest Lithuania to showcase the activity of the Payments Association and Project International Trade, and to identify opportunities for Payments Association members to

Project Regulator commends the Payment Systems Regulator’s decision to postpone the deadline for implementing Confirmation of Payee. Project Regulator had previously responded to the PSR’s consultation on the general direction

Project Transaction Insights launched a survey on the on authentication and authorisation strategies being adopted by issuers. This research, which will be developed into an upcoming whitepaper, covers areas that

Wirecard would like to congratulate our Director of Sales and Business Development, Brian Lawlor on his election to the PIF Board. Brian is Director of Sales of Business Development at

Get to know the people behind W2. Find out six of the favourite things of our Head of Account Management, Richard Evans. Read more here.

Compass Plus is celebrating moving into its new Moscow office and being nominated for the most prestigious office interior design award in Russia: The Best Office Awards 2019 recognises the

ECOMMBX has announced its official registration as an Account Information Service Provider (AISP) on the EBA Payment Institutions Register. The milestone marks the first-ever Cyprus Electronic Money Institution to be

CryptoGlobe spoke to up-and-coming payments solution company Paybase about their platform, crypto regulation and their exciting vision for the future. Paybase is the most flexible solution for payments, compliance and risk.

California-based open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta is driving ahead with its global expansion efforts, signing up its first four European customers. French digital bank Morning, Swiss contemporary

With the banks’ monopoly over customer account information having been overturned by PSD2 and Open Banking, it was expected that 2018 would be a revolutionary year for banking – but

The results of recent research by Smart Money People into UK consumers’ banking preferences revealed an increasing preference for app-based banking over all other channels: online, in-branch and telephone banking.

ECOMMBX, along with ECOMMPAY; group of Fintech companies, team up with a strong four-member crew: Team Arrow. This sponsorship has won the Cyprus finals and qualified for the F1 in

JP Morgan’s expansion of its blockchain-based interbank payments project signals that major banks are stealing a march on disruptors and startups by providing working systems developed on distributed ledger technology,

On the 17 April, the FCA released its Business Plan for 2019 / 20, in which it sets out its high-level priorities for regulating the financial services industry over the

With the banks’ monopoly over customer account information having been overturned by PSD2 and Open Banking, it was expected that 2018 would be a revolutionary year for banking – but

The Middle East and Africa is often reported as having one of the smallest payments markets in the world in terms of available services. Despite this, it is extremely fast-paced.

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ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Entersekt today released further results from its recent online survey conducted by The Harris Poll among over 1,300 US adults who use banking apps once a month or more often

Facebook is constantly making headlines for its increasing revenues or its misuse of data – even if those stories don’t add up. Now its dividing opinions once again. Internal emails

Entersekt, an innovator of mobile-first fintech solutions, today announced plans to expand its operations with the opening of a second office in the Western Cape. The office will open its

Miles & More has partnered with payments companies Affiniture Cards Ltd and Cornèrcard UK  to launch a loyalty programme for British travellers. Miles & More offers Global Traveller Cards in