Figures from Link, the UK’s cash machine network, show that the number of ATMs in the UK reached 70,180 in July, passing 70,000 for the first time. ATM figures from July, show that the total amount withdrawn from cash machines in July 2015 was £11.3 billion, up 4% compared with July 2014.
The International Securities Services Association adopted a set of compliance principles to address the “critical challenges” posed by financial crime. The new principles aim to establish “a clear global standard for the opening and maintenance of cross-border securities accounts”.
When I joined the company in 2007, Google was just a search engine and Apple had nothing to do with payments. It was a time many prepaid executives have compared to throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks—not everything did.
Australia’s central bank may begin regulating American Express cards in the country, putting at risk the generous rewards points cardholders earn on so-called “companion cards”— credit card accounts linked to two different credit card networks, thus enabling cardholders to earn the benefits of whichever one they choose to use at the point of purchase.
New Delhi’s Urban Development Ministry this week announced it’s reached an agreement for a consortium of agencies to begin developing an interoperable payment card with a prepaid feature for POS purchases and public transportation that eventually could be used with different transit systems across India.
Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-commerce companies, has acquired a majority stake in payment services platform FX Mart Pvt. Ltd. for Rs. 45.4 crores (roughly US$6.9 million).
Swift has named the 20 finalists for the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge finale, which will take place at Sibos in Singapore this October. The finalists include companies focused on personal finance, foreign exchange, data protection, mobile banking and e-commerce as well as social media, big data, payments and many other areas.
Jürg Weber has been appointed as the new division chief executive of SIX Payment Services and a member of SIX Group executive board as of today.
Target2-Securities, the European Central Bank project to harmonise Europe’s post trade infrastructure, has finally gone live in Italy – three months after Italy’s last-minute decision to drop out of the first wave earlier this summer.
PayPal more or less invented P2P payments with its core service enabling individuals to pay one another via email through various funding sources. Now it’s introduced a URL-based approach.
Samsung Pay is off to a brisk start in Korea after its launch there Aug. 20, about five weeks ahead of the mobile payment service’s pending debut in the U.S. on Sept. 28, but it’s nowhere near Apple Pay levels, which hit 1 million registered cards in the first 72 hours.
A former Secret Service agent involved in the investigation against the Silk Road online marketplace has pleaded guilty in federal court to pilfering nearly a million dollars’ worth of bitcoin during the investigation.
BNY Mellon expects to have its SunGard InvestOne system back to normal today following testing over the weekend and the US Labor Day holiday and have caught up on the generation of net asset values for clients.
ANZ has signed a five-year, A$450 million (£208 million) strategic agreement with IBM, the centrepiece of which is the establishment of a cloud-based Innovation Lab based on IBM’s Bluemix cloud development platform-as-a-service.
More than £2.5 billion was spent in the UK using contactless cards in the first half of 2015 and this is likely to increase even more as the upper limit for contactless payments increases from £20 to £30 from today.
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, has appointed James C. Hale to its board of directors.
Emergent Payments, a global payments company enabling digital businesses to accept more than 200 secure payment methods, recently has added executives to its senior leadership. The additions include Joseph Podulka, CFO; Rob Freedman, business development director; and Pawan Chawla, vice president merchant solutions and strategy.
Fiserv Inc., a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that it has received a vendor award for outstanding performance of anti-money laundering (AML) solutions by Aite Group as part of its “2015 Global AML Vendor Evaluation.”
Payments platform provider Hyperwallet Systems Inc. announced the addition of Jennifer Anderson to its U.S. sales team.
The UK Gift Card and Voucher Association recently has appointed Gail Cohen director general.
U.S. lawmakers keep trying to influence how the U.S. Department of Education handles a proposed rule on campus cards that deliver financial aid dollars. And, the DOE continues to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
Dangling $5,000 in free Apple Pay transaction processing for merchants, North American Bancard will launch a new EMV-ready m-POS card reader next month at the Apple Store, while MCX says CurrentC is on the verge of a public pilot in Ohio that will include redemption of national manufacturer coupons.
Fuel savings are considered the most valuable reward by consumers enrolled in loyalty programs, beating out coupons, airline miles and even cash back, a new survey reveals.
Another company has entered the field of players vying to acquire Worldpay Ltd.
Global capital markets specialist, Hatstand, has launched a cyber-security risk assessment service that will enable businesses to better understand the current state of their preparedness against the risk of cyber-attacks and identify any shortfalls in their existing governance programmes.
Service provider Ciber claims to have solved one of the most expensive problems in business: upgrading legacy systems to make them secure and cloud friendly. Its new system, Ciber Momentum, converts the code from languages such as Cobol, Ada and Pascal into a more cloud-ready format.
The UK payments industry and regulators should focus on four main priorities to ensure the country has a ‘world class’ payments framework, according to Payments UK.
Digital gifting continues to make inroads, with more than half of consumers surveyed by Blackhawk Network reporting the purchase of an e-gift over the previous year.
Paybefore Award-winning Wirecard, an independent global provider of outsourcing and white-label solutions for electronic payments, reportedly has thrown its hat into the ring to acquire Worldpay Ltd. for £6 billion (US$9.4 billion).
A U.S. appeals court this week determined that the FTC has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity and can pursue a lawsuit against hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide Corp. for allegedly failing to properly safeguard consumers’ information.
Amid the threat of increasingly sophisticated cybercrime and heightened scrutiny by regulators, a new report urges retail and financial services CEOs and board members to take an active, involved role in improving their firms’ safeguards.
Digitally enabled supplier finance networks and alternative lenders now pose a significant threat to every part of the commercial lending business, with 84% of banks seeing pressure on the pricing of loan products as a challenge.
Surcharges vs. discounts.
Changing terms of an agreement.
Three-party agreements causes problems.
Rights of gift card holders.
Redeeming for dollars.
Payment opportunities in the EU come with complex requirements, which is why it’s important to understand the ever-changing legislative issues.
Elo, the largest Brazilian credit card brand, is accepted in more than 1.65 million domestic locations.
Google Inc. in May said Android Pay would launch “soon,” and this week notifications surfaced at some McDonald’s stores suggesting the rollout could come as early as this week.
