Analysis

Total spending on Visa cards in the UK has surpassed £600 billion for the first time reports Visa Europe. The results provide strong evidence of the UK’s transition to a digital payments economy and a...

The NFC environment will be dynamic. Applications will be continually created, updated and become eventually end of life. The only effective way to reach the users of mobile phone based NFC applications is with...

The European Commission, through DG Information Society, is preparing to play an activist role in the development of what it calls 'a single market for mobile payments in Europe.' According to DG Information Society's...

Alcatel-Lucent has released new report on malware and mobile malware showing that security threats to mobile and residential devices jumped sharply during the first half of 2014, putting device owners at increased risk of...

A new study, 2017 State of Authentication, examines how businesses are implementing authentication, their motivations for choosing authentication technologies and approaches, and how the evolving threat environment has given rise to new, more effective means of...

Since the late 1990s, transit agencies have made significant investments in contactless smart card-based automatic fare collection (AFC) systems. Over the same period, the financial industry has begun introducing new payment media based on...

Internet and mobile security expert BullGuard advises that malicious attacks could be even more prevalent and certainly more varied in 2013, and urges users to stay one step ahead by knowing how third parties...

Adyen announced findings from its latest global Mobile Payments Index covering the period of April through June 2014.  During this period, on average mobile web payments accounted for almost 22% of all transactions on...

There is a very good new report on financial services for millenials from Telstra Global Enterprise Services titled Millennials, Mobiles and Money – The Forces Reinventing Financial Services which makes facinating reading. Rocky Scopelliti, global...

An Arthur D. Little report Past m-payment market predictions estimated the global m-payment market (in terms of total transaction volume) could be as much as US$ 15 billion by 2003. In fact, global m-payment revenue...