Payments Ecosystem

Among other things, Apple's Second Coming of the Mobile Payment Solution was meant to fix our broke-ass credit card security system. Only, according to (unconfirmed) reports, it's doing exactly the opposite.

The irony of Bitcoin's fall is that some of the attributes that initially made it so attractive to its backers like no centralized banking control, lax regulation and no transaction fees, are the very same things that are actually causing its demise.

The problem with a financial crisis is that the climb out has been particularly arduous for consumers and retailers. Even though spending and wages have

It appears that PayPal is no kind of pal to a lot of users in China. Many Chinese cross-border merchants have decided to stop using the online payment

Scammers have duped unsuspecting victims out of at least $11 million in bitcoin over the last four years, according to researchers from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

Visa Europe has signed a six-figure product placement deal with British television network ITV that will see contactless payments get high profile outings on prime-time soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

The peer-to-peer lending industry in the UK hit more than £1.2 billion in 2014 according to new figures released today from the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA).

Coinbase is being sized up for a class action suit by securities litigators Tripp Levy for allegedly making false and misleading statements relating to the regulatory status of its new bitcoin exchange in New York and California.

Individuals can be identified from just four pieces of credit card metadata, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found.

On Jan. 22, 1984, Apple ran a commercial during the third quarter of the Super Bowl that helped define its brand, teasing to the release of the Apple Computer

Facebook plans to test beacons in New York City as a way of connecting its mobile users to the Facebook pages of nearby shops and landmarks, the New York Times

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans for his social network are clear: "We're making progress towards connecting the world," he wrote in prepared remarks in the

As the liability shift creeps closer (245 days as of the writing of this article) in the U.S., the migration to EMV is progressing well, according to

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South Africa's Standard Bank has opened an innovation centre in Johannesburg in an effort to foster a startup culture.

Visa Europe is to invest more than EUR200 million in new payment technologies to accelerate the growth of digital payments after reporting record transaction volumes for 2014.

Google is rolling out its e-mail-based money transfer system in the UK, almost two years after the feature was first released in the US.

MasterCard has kicked off the first in a series of ten global hackathons in Sydney, where developers will compete for a place in the final and the chance to win a $100,000 grand prize

Indian telco Bharti Airtel says that it will apply for a payments bank license as it prepares to make a grab for the country's huge underexploited mobile banking market.