Payments News in Brief – September 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
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News in Brief – June 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – China UnionPay partners with the British start-up Tribe Payments on launching their services in Europe. In addit...
Security: New Tech Hub by N26
FACTS The neo-banking player N26 just presented a Tech Hub, scheduled to open this fall in Vienna (Austria).
SIA Launches an Open-Banking Platform
PSD2 compliance compels industry players to further open up and rethink their strategy. The Italian processor SIA intends to help them through th...
Borrowers’ Insurance: Yearly Cancellation Already Has a Cost for Banks
Since January this year, and in compliance with the Bourquin Amendment, consumers are entitled to renegotiate their borrowers’ insurance when the...
REX: Consistent Growth for Compte-Nickel
As often the case, the Financière des Paiements Electroniques (FPE) reports on Compte-Nickel progress and releases latest figures. Also, this tim...
MasterCard’s SDK for PayPass Integration
MasterCard releases its Mobile MasterCard PayPass User Interface Software Development Kit (UI SDK) for Android and BlackBerry OS 7 to help issuer...
Compliance: MasterCard Favours US ATMs EMV Migration
MasterCard is expanding its US EMV migration roadmap to encompass all MasterCard affiliated products used to initiate ATM transactions.As the ado...
Compliance: Partnership between EMVCo and the NFC Forum
EMVCo partners with the NFC Forum (association working on contactless adoption). Together they should improve testing procedures applied to NFC c...
Compliance: American Express to Favour EMV
American Express walks in the footsteps of rival card networks and starts issuing EMV-compliant cards in the US. This considered, its processors,...
SCT/SDD End-Date: Promotion in France
The French National SEPA Committee launches a series of public meetings on the 1er February 2014 deadline in each of the country’s 22 regions. So...
YuuZoo’s New Payment Service for Social networks
The Under 18-dedicated e-purse Virtual Piggy announces a new partnership with provider of targeted social networks YuuZoo to launch a secure paym...
Interbank fees: interchange on French direct debits to be halved
The French antitrust authority, Autorité de la Concurrence, has announced a commitment of French banks to reduce the main multilateral interbank ...
Compliance: Discover to Migrate to EMV by 2013
The American card scheme Discover has now imposed to its acquirers to be able to process the EMV chip by 2013. Merchants directly connecting to t...
Visa Imposing PCI-DSS Compliance to its e-merchants
As of 1st January 2013 Carte Bleue will be requiring PCI-DSS compliance from its e-merchants: failing which, the group will no longer be covering...
EMVco Recognising GlobalPlatform Compliance Program
EMVCo standard organisation gathering American Express, MasterCard, Visa and JCB, has recognised GlobalPlatform’s Compliance Program for validati...
Issuing: One Million US EMV Cards
Visa announces that about ten US financial institutions are now issuing EMV payment cards. Among these institutions, five major banks: Wells Farg...
KDDI Soon to Sell NFC Services
End January 2012, the mobile operator KDDI will be initiating commercial launches of its contactless services. Among these: card and mobile payme...
Acceptance: US Commerce Adopting EPAS protocols
At New York’s Big Retail Show, the National Retail Federation (NRF) and its standardisation-dedicated arm the Association for Retail Technology S...
