Amicus applies for UK banking licence
Amicus Financial, an online lender that has lent nearly £1 billion in seven years, has applied for a banking licence, hoping to secure it in 2017.
Amicus Financial, an online lender that has lent nearly £1 billion in seven years, has applied for a banking licence, hoping to secure it in 2017.
Charlie Scharf has this week announced his resignation from the post of Visa's chief executive officer. It come into effect on December 1st 2016.
First Data has released Clover Go, a new contactless payment reader that works with swipe and EMV cards, as well as NFC (including Apple Pay, Android Pay & Samsung Pay) devices.
Silicon Valley Bank and Mastercard have selected six new startups for their fifth class of Commerce.Innovated, a virtual accelerator designed to help commerce, payments and fintech startups grow their businesses.
Nationwide has carried out a contactless payment transaction 100,000 feet above the earth in extremely cold conditions.
Alipay, the mobile payment platform run by Ant Financial Services Group, has partnered with Zapper, the consumer insights and marketing platform which is enabled by mobile payments.
The number of consumers using a mobile device, including a smartphone and a tablet, to make payments has tripled in the last year, according to a new study from Visa.
Scams and online attacks are the main culprits behind the increase in financial fraud in the first half of 2016, new figures from Financial Fraud Action show.
Barclays got in on the act, as did Orange, not to mention Apple, Samsung and Google - now Vodafone's UK customers can make contactless payments after the telco company partnered with PayPal.
This infographic, presented by SapientNitro, takes a look at how mobile payments have involved, why and most importantly what that means for banks.