Discover has announced an agreement with Apple that will allow Discover card members in the US to make contactless payments in participating stores through Apple Pay, the easy, secure and private

ValidSoft has announced the signing of a large new commercial customer contract for its newly enhanced User Authentication platform featuring its Voice Biometrics technology with a large US-based corporation. Download

Check out Valitor’s new organizational chart, which aims to strengthen and consolidate activities within Valitor and its subsidiaries in the UK and Denmark, as well as improve group synergy, enabling

Mobile payments through smartphones and other devices are expected to multiply 10 times over this year, and Carta Worldwide is poised to tap into the trend. The Business News interviewed

Global Processing Services (GPS) has appointed former Head of Issuing at Optimal Payments PLC to join its Senior Executive team.  The Payments Association advisory board member Suresh Vaghjiani is appointed Executive Vice

Realex Payments, one of Europe’s largest and fastest growing payment gateways, has been acquired by Global Payments, a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services. Read more here.

CAIXA, MasterCard and TIM have launched a prepaid mobile money account in Brazil that will enable the over one million TIM subscribers to pay bills, transfer money and top up phones using their

First Data Corporation and Capgemini have formed a global alliance to develop next generation payment technology software using First Data’s VisionPLUS® and AccessPLUS solutions. Read more here.

Limonetik’s most recent newsletter includes Gartner research, “Hype Cycle for Payment Innovations, 2014”. Read more here.

The Government of Egypt, represented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and MasterCard are collaborating with the aim of extending financial services to 54 million Egyptians. MasterCard will work with the

Jumio has announced that P2P lending specialist Landbay has implemented Jumio’s Netverify® to authenticate lenders’ identities, to comply with anti-money-laundering regulations and improve their clients’ user experience. The multi-year deal will

Leading foreign exchange provider Travelex has partnered with Tuxedo Money Solutions on its planned Visa branded Supercard, a new way for UK travellers to avoid debit and credit card roaming fees

Optimal Payments Plc has entered into an agreement to acquire Skrill Group from CVC Funds and other shareholders, for an enterprise value of approximately €1.1 billion (US$[1.2] billion). Read more

Citi is to launch a banking app designed for Apple Watch™ when Apple brings the device to market in the US on April 24, 2015. Among the first banking apps

Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services will be unveiling a new employee rewards portfolio at Motivate Europe Live in late April. This will include new positioning for its current reward portfolio, along

Carta Worldwide has announced Cloud Suite 1.0 for mobile payments, the world’s only full-service cloud-based payments and tokenization solution for Banks and Wallet Service Providers. Its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) now offers

New research from Ukash reveals that 15% of traveller’s book getaways to cash in on good exchange rates, despite the fact that there’s no guarantee the rate will stay strong for

Cubits are now partnering with BetVIP, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin-supported Sportsbook and Casino, using its merchant platform Cubits Pay to provide BetVIP with the high-volume application and flexible API

Thomson Reuters has launched new controls in its instant messaging service to improve the ease with which financial markets professionals can communicate with their counterparties whilst helping ensure the highest

Anti-money laundering (AML) expert Callcredit has been selected by Smart Pension, a new auto enrolment firm, to perform AML checks on small companies automatically enrolling their employees for a workplace pension.  Callcredit’s CallValidate tool

Ray Brash, CEO at PrePay Solutions has commented on the Financial Inclusion Commission’s Report and the Commission’s views on prepaid cards. Read his comments here.

Furthering its efforts to enable financial institutions to be client champions, FIS is launching a full-service, end-to-end social media solution for financial institutions. FIS Social Media helps financial institutions follow FFIEC risk

Visa Europe, together with a number of its member banks, will be demonstrating a range of live mobile payment apps from across Europe at Mobile World Congress, with services from

Limonetik has agreed a deal with Alipay, the leading Chinese payment processor, that will enable European merchants access to Chinese consumers via online payments. The deal enables Limonetik’s “one stop”

Tuxedo Money Solutions, the UK-based international payments technology firm, and Global Processing Services FZ LLC (GPS), the Dubai-based payment processor, have agreed to work to together to deliver a series

Visa Europe is planning to launch a tokenisation service customized for the needs of the European market from April 2015. Tokenisation technology will be at the heart of new mobile

MasterCard plans to invest more than $20 million in cybersecurity-related technology enhancements to deliver greater peace of mind for MasterCard cardholders, merchants and issuing banks.  MasterCard’s Safety Net to be

Visa Europe has announced that Visa Direct, formerly Visa Personal Payments, is expanding its offering into most countries where Visa has a presence, creating a global peer-to-peer payments service. With

Robert Courtneidge of Locke Lord received the Best Payments Lawyer award at PayExpo

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has approved First Data’s Processor Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) application, granting the company permission to manage customer data across borders.  First Data is now the first

Jumio has enhanced features to its proprietary ID card scanning service, Netverify. Netverify provides businesses utilizing mobile and online channels an accurate and efficient way to authenticate the identity credentials

Vidar Thorkelsson CEO of Valitor, recently discussed electronic payments, mobile payments, security and more with Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið. Read the interview (in English) here.

Suresh Vaghjiani, Director of Optimal Payments’ Card Services division, has been elected to the Advisory Board of the The Payments Association. The Payments Association is an organisation set up to

After being announced last October by President Obama, American Express has launched its Small Merchant EMV Assistance Program. The nationwide campaign will help US small merchants fight fraud through a

Optimal Payments has received two awards from prestigious events in the iGaming calendar. The company received the Best Payment System Award at the iGB Affiliate Awards and the Corporate Services

DigiSEq provides pioneering provisioning services and is one of the most recent members of Gx. DigiSEq’s has written a case study on contactless payments at events and festivals; the case study

Recruitment technology specialist OTYS is the latest to implement Jumio’s Netverify®, to quickly validate new employee ID documents as part of its clients’ employee on-boarding processes. Read more here.

Limonetik, a payment specialist for web solutions, has unveiled that SEQR, a solution developed by Seamless, uses Limonetik as one of its platforms to expand in Europe. Limonetik’s technology turns payment

Bottomline Technologies a leading provider of cloud-based payment, invoice, and digital banking solutions,  is now offering comprehensive cyber fraud and risk management solutions as a result of the acquisition of

paysafecard, the Vienna-based global market leader in prepaid online payment methods, and member of Skrill Group, introduces further new features with the latest update of the paysafecard app. Version 4.0

M2 Payment Solutions has released its latest version of authENGIN based on its flagship transaction processing platform, ENGIN. This latest version is designed to support prepaid card services and the

MasterCard is inviting innovative startups from across Europe to apply for the next edition of Start Path Europe. The 12-month program focuses on providing startups with the support and expertise needed to overcome

Optimal Payments’ NETBANX® iGaming payment solution is now fully integrated and operational on the new Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) regulated online gaming site, PlayOLG.ca. This follows the announcement on April 22, 2014 of

2014 was a fantastic year for WEX Europe so they are sharing their year’s facts and figures as an infographic to give some insight into how and when their products