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• New UK Unit Commits To Ending Online Piracy, Counterfeiting

  The UK government is developing a new police unit that will be committed to preventing online piracy and the sales of counterfeit...

• Russia Gets NFC Ticketing For Transportation Payments

  The Russian mobile network operators MTS, MegaFon, Vimpelcom and Rostelecom have joined together to roll out a new NFC scheme for public...

• Mobile Money Payments Gain Traction In Nigeria

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that the total value of mobile money transactions in the country increased to N64 billion...

• European ATM Security Team Address Fraud

  The European ATM Security Team and LiquidNexxus teamed together to host the first Financial Crime and Security Forum event where they discussed...

• Dutch Central Bank Condemns Elimination Of Cash

  The Dutch central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), does not think we should be moving towards a cashless future. According to Finextra,...

• Is eCommerce Losing Its Sparkle In Denmark?

  The Danish market underwent major growth in eCommerce sales last year, but new results indicate its star may not shine as brightly...

• Saudi Consumers Rack Up Credit Card Fees

  Saudi consumers are enjoying expensive foreign holidays full of beach trips, shopping and unplanned credit card fees. According to Arab News a...

• Moroccan eCommerce Struggles To Take Off

  Consumers living in established markets often slip into a provincial state-of-mind by default, and forget emerging markets are still in the first...

• French Smokeshows, Sherlock Barclays And Mamas For M-PESA

  The payments industry is a compelling space, but it’s a time consuming one as well. You might not have time to keep...

• ECommerce Site Jumia Expands To Ivory Coast

  Jumia, an online retail company based in West Africa, expanded its services to the Ivory Coast and will now operate in countries...

• Report: South African Are Satisfied With Online Shopping

  The newest online shopping survey released from MasterCard reveals that 91 percent of South African consumers who shop online are “highly satisfied”...

• New Partnership Provides Mobile Payments In Bulgaria

  Accumulate and Borica-Bankservice are joining to develop a technology standard to improve security and innovation for mobile payment services in Bulgaria, reported...

• Cash-Only UK Businesses Lose Customers, Reputation

  A new report from WorldPay indicates that one-in-five UK consumers will abandon a purchase at small businesses because they do not accept...

• Visa Launches Mobile Payments Platform In Finland

  3V Transaction Services, the Irish mobile payments firm, announced a new agreement to introduce a virtual Visa payment card service in Finland,...

• New ERPB Governing Body To Replace Sepa Council

  The Single Euro Payments Area Council is being replaced by a more formal organization. The European Commission is suggesting that a new...

• New M-PESA Program Targets SMBs

  Safaricom came, saw and conquered the consumer mobile payments market in Kenya, as there are now more than 17 million active M-PESA...

• Report: One-Fourth Of Consumers Book Holidays Via Mobile

  It isn’t surprising that Brits are opting to ditch colder UK climates in exchange for sunnier weather holidays. However, Mobile Entertainment reported...

• What Music’s Past Tells Us About Payments’ Future

  What do Lady Gaga and the payments industry have in common? You’d be surprised to find that the two actually have many...

• Apple Launches Online Retail Store In Russia

  Apple announced the launch of its new online store in Russia, reported The Next Web. The launch of the new online store...

• Nigeria’s Cash Counterfeit Problem Undermines Economy

  Nigeria’s problem with currency counterfeiting is becoming a huge threat to the country’s economy, reported All Africa. If the issue worsens, it...

• Luck Of The Irish? Visa Sees Contactless Progress In Ireland

  Visa Debit announced it has facilitated half a million contactless payments across the country to date, reported SiliconRepublic. By the end of...

• Lloyds Charges Into mPOS Market With Monitise Partnership

  Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has teamed up with Monitise to create a range of mobile card acceptance solutions for micro-merchants, startups and...

• French Tobacco Shops Smoke Bank Competitors

  Next time you visit the local tobacco shop to get your weekly pack of cigarettes, why not sign up for a new...

• Italy Lags Behind In Electronic Banking

  The Internet is fully integrated in the Italian banking system, but Italy still stands as an eBanking laggard in comparison to the...

• Will PayFort Become MENA’s PayPal?

  Running from June 24 to 26, ArabNet Digital Summit 2013, a three-day conference taking place in Dubai, UAE, brought together entrepreneurs, digital...

• Lebanese Merchants Promote International eCommerce

  Bank Audi launched a new “emall” platform to serve Lebanese merchants as an online shopping tool, reported CPI Financial. Emall aims to...

• Scottish Businesses Lose £5B To Cybercrime Every Year

  Scottish businesses are paying a high price for annual cybercrime as a new study announces they are paying over £5 billion every...

• MasterCard, Etisalat Introduce Mobile Money Service In Egypt

  MasterCard, telco Etisalat and the National Bank of Egypt are teaming up to roll out the first Arabic mobile money service, reported...

• Payleven, BZP Launch Chip & PIN Services For German Transportation

  Payleven, a European mobile card payments provider, and BZP, a German passenger traffic association, are working together to begin offering its Chip...

• SumUp Mimics Square With “POS Box”

  SumUp, a mobile payments provider, announced the rollout of SumUp Point of Sale Box, a new solution that will allow merchants to...

• Barclays To Begin Selling Account Transaction Data

  Barclays has told its consumers that it will begin selling “information about the transactions on [their] account” to third parties come this...

• Ensygnia’s Pay-By-Barcode Worth $3.3 Million

  Mobile transactions enabler Ensygnia ended its final seed funding round last week, according to a press release. The U.K. based startup raised...

• Dixons Joins Visa V.me Digital Wallet Service

  Customers of consumer electronics provider Dixons Retail will soon be able to make purchases with V.me by Visa Digital Wallet on Currys...

• PayLane Expands Payment Methods In Poland

  Poland-based eBusiness services provider PayLane.com is now allowing merchants to accept three new payment options in its home market, a press release...

• MasterCard Issues Diamond-Embedded Credit Card In Qatar

  Qatar National Bank and MasterCard have teamed up to offer the first diamond-embedded credit card for the Middle East and Africa. The...

• VocaLink’s Zapp Poised For Early 2014 U.K. Launch

  Payments and ATM platform provider VocaLink has formed a new company, Zapp, according to a press release. The service will allow U.K....

• Barclays Pingit App Comes To Kenya

  Barclays Bank of Kenya has launched BarclaysKenya, a free mobile banking app for existing customers. The app has the functionality of the...

• African Banks Misjudge Consumers At Bottom Of The Financial Pyramid

  Commercial banks in Africa saw little opportunity in reaching out to impoverished residents living across the continent. Destitute locations, high risk and...

• UK Report: Mobile Devices Dominate eCommerce Sales

  British consumers are obsessed with technical gadgets. This is no exaggeration, as they are commonly listed as the world’s leading country when...

• Central Bank Of Gambia Bans Major Money Transfer Services

  Gambia’s Central Bank announced the suspension of three large major money transfer services in the country starting Friday June 21, reported All...

• Parisian Startup Rad Raises Series A Round

  Rad, a Parisian startup eCommerce site, announced a new Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, reported The Next Web. Index...

• Bulgaria Completes First Steps For mPayments On Metro

  Vivacom and Cellum Bulgaria recently created a joint presentation of new purchasing technology for Bulgaria’s subway system, reported Finextra. The technology includes...

• Yapital, POSPartner Team Up For MPOS Solution

  Yapital, a cross-channel payments system, announced a new partnership with POS systems company, POSPartner, to develop a new payment solution at the...

• France Continues To Clamp Down On Amazon

  French officials are still fighting the digital revolution. According to Reuters, the government is attempting to establish a new law that will...

• Banco Sabadell Adds ATM, P2P Features To Mobile App

  Spanish bank Banco Sabadell has updated its mobile app to allow customers to withdraw cash from ATMs via their mobile phone, reported...

• Lithuanians Stuck Between Old And New Payments

  Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is the largest city in the country and the second biggest city in the Baltic States. There...

• Zimbabwe Bank Beefs Up Loan Offerings

  No, cattle banking isn’t the latest loyalty program from Burger King, or Omaha Steak’s entrance into digital currency. Recently announced by TN...

• Nordic Shoppers Get Dressed With Virtual Fitting Startup

  Stockholm-based Virtusize, a virtual fitting solution startup, announced a new partnership with online retailer Brandos, for its launch into three new European...

• Ukash, Limonetik Expand French eCommerce Operations

  Ukash, an online cash service company, announced it has teamed up with Limonetik, a payment platform provider. The partnership will allow Ukash...

• Turkish Payments Provider Gets Series A Investment

  Iyzi Payments, a startup payment service provider in Turkey, announced a new Series A Investment of $1.4 million USD, reported KTEN. Iyzi...