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UK retailers win appeal court ruling over ATM charges

The UK's high street retailers have scored a major victory in a long-running case over the payment of business rates for ATM's installed at their stores.

09 November 2018

Company update/Cards

BS/2 sells 111 ATMs to Kazakhstan-based Bank CentreCredit

The BS/2, a part of Penki Kontinentai Group, sold 111 ATMs with an integrated security and monitoring solution ATMeye.iQ to the Bank CenterCredit.

09 November 2018

News/security

PNC pilots dynamic CVV2 tech to fight card-not-present fraud

PNC Bank's treasury management unit is trialling technology that guards against card-not-present fraud by automatically changing the three digit CVV code on the back of credit cards.

09 November 2018

News/Cards

Intesa Sanpaolo to test fingerprint cards

Intesa Sanpaolo is the latest to try its hand at fingerprint cards in a collaboration with Gemalto and Nordic startup Zwipe.

08 November 2018

Company update/payments

CardFlight and Payscape team up

CardFlight, the leading mobile POS and SaaS payment technology company, and Payscape, a financial technology and payments innovator, announced today that they partnered to allow Payscape to offer CardFlight’s leading payment acceptance solution, SwipeSimple, to merchants across the United States.

07 November 2018

News/security

'Almost all' Pakistani banks hit by hackers

Customer card data from nearly all of Pakistan's major banks has been stolen in a cyberattack, says the country's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

07 November 2018

Company update/Cards

American Express partners WEX to alleviate accounts payable pain points

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) and WEX Inc. today announced a new collaboration utilizing WEX’s market-leading accounts payable technology, named Synaptic.

07 November 2018

Company update/Cards

JaJa Finance reaches £3 million crowdfunding target

Jaja Finance, the company on a mission to simplify the world of consumer finance, announces that it has already reached its fundraising target of £3m on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs.

07 November 2018

Company update/payments

Barclaycard joins Coupa as inaugural Coupa Pay partner

Following its announcement of Coupa Pay, a set of payment and financing solutions within the Coupa Business Spend Management (BSM) Platform, Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP) has unveiled a strategic partnership with Barclaycard, a leading global payment business, which is part of Barclays Bank PLC.

07 November 2018

Company update/Cards

Perkbox adds card-linking option to loyalty platform

In an industry first worldwide, Perkbox, Europe’s fastest growing employee experience platform, is today announcing the introduction of card-linking technology to its offerings.

07 November 2018

Company update/Cards

Cardstream to process Discover cards in UK

Cardstream, the UK’s largest independent provider of white label payment software and services, and Diners Club International, a subsidiary of Discover Financial Services, and part of the Discover Global Network, have today announced a collaboration that will help expand and accelerate the acceptance of Discover Global Network cards including Discover, Diners Club International and affiliate network cards in the UK.

06 November 2018

Company update/retail

Ingenico CEO Philippe Lazare leaves

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, announced following the Board meeting held on November 5th, 2018, the evolution of the Group's governance as follow:

05 November 2018

Company update/security

ThreatQuotient applies Visa breach intelligence

ThreatQuotient, a trusted threat intelligence platform innovator, today announced that it is integrating verified breach intelligence from Visa to enable customers to better detect and protect against cyber attacks targeting payment data.

05 November 2018

Company update/Cards

Sberbank and South Korea’s Hyosung TNS Inc. to create next generation ATM especially for Russia

Sberbank and South Korean corporation Hyosung TNS Inc. have founded a Russian research and development centre on the basis of a Sberbank laboratory.

05 November 2018

News/payments

BofE launches cash vs cashless challenge

As part of a new open forum on the future of money, the Bank of England is challenging Brits to see if they can live for a week either using only cash or not using cash at all.

05 November 2018

News/Cards

Mastercard complains to US govt about Indian PM's RuPay promotion

Mastercard has complained to the US government about the behaviour of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, claiming that he is using nationalism to push the country's domestic payments network, hurting foreign rivals, according to Reuters.

02 November 2018

News/Cards

Anna launches debit card that miaows

As any cat owner will testify, moggies are capable of making humans wither under their judgemental glare. Now, money management startup Anna is tapping into man's deep fear of his feline overlord with a debit card that miaows every time it is used.

02 November 2018

Company update/Cards

JCB and Wex to issue virtual cards in Japan

JCB International, Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., today announced a new partnership with WEX Inc. (NYSE:WEX), an industry-leading global provider of corporate payments solutions, to enable WEX virtual payments technology in Japan.

01 November 2018

News/security

Hacking scam hits California ATMs

The US National ATM Council is warning cash machine operators of an emerging scam in which criminals re-programme the terminal to dispense notes even when a transaction is denied.

01 November 2018

News/payments

The revolution of money is in the hands of the consumer – a Money 20/20 round-up

For the seventh year running, Money 20/20 put on an impressive show in Las Vegas and welcomed thousands of innovators from the fintech and banking industries to learn about disruption and forge business connections.

01 November 2018