The CIFAs report quantifies something that is already painfully clear, fraud is everywhere. Make no mistake, the internet is the single biggest contributing factor today. People spend so much of their time online and many do so while leaving a trail of personal information behind them – with little or no regard to security or privacy. Cybercriminals are well adept at following this trail of breadcrumbs back to their target, and ruthless when it comes to using this information against them for financial gain. 

Sionic Mobile and Customer Engagement Technologies (CET) today announced a partnership to provide mobile loyalty and instant universal rewards to the underbanked.

Hornby calls on Google and Facebook to “step up to the plate” as study reveals advertisers could be defrauded of as much as $16.4bn in 2017

The&Partnership, m/SIX and Adloox have published a report laying out the steps the industry needs to take to reverse the rising tide of advertising fraud – as new figures from Adloox suggest advertisers could be defrauded of $16.4bn in 2017.

Baymarkets Technology AB (Baymarkets), a leading Nordic provider of FinTech and RegTech solutions to the global financial services industry, announced today the appointment of Per Andersson as Head of Sales and Business Development.

Enormous amounts of data are inserted into and have to be processed by the European Central Bank’s securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S) day by day.

In partnership with founding partners Maersk and Ericsson, Plug and Play is launching their newest program, Plug and Play Supply Chain & Logistics.

Nick Pedersen, Managing Director of Equiniti International Payments has been confirmed as a guest speaker at the 2017 Card & Payments Summit, taking place at The Radisson Blu Portman, London, on the 27th and 28th of March.

Pedersen, who was appointed Managing Director of the global payments provider in October last year following six years at Citigroup, will speak about the launch of the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2), detailing what this will mean for the banking and Fintech sectors, as well as exploring what impact PSD2 will have on the global payments market.

TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, today announced that it has been working with the GSMA to ensure TerraPay compatibility with the recently rolled out standardized mobile money APIs.

ThinkMarkets is a leading provider of forex and CFD trading, who has enhanced its payment offering with the launch of PayPal. The new payment solution enables ThinkMarkets’ global user-base to deposit and withdraw funds through PayPal’s international network.

With the addition of PayPal as a funding method, ThinkMarkets’ users will be able to deposit funds into their trading accounts on the MetaTrader 4 and ThinkTrader platform in a quick, efficient and secure way.

I remember organising my first banking conferences in the 1990s and there was a regular mantra amongst the memes of the folks speaking on stage.

There is more change coming and you’re going to be dead meat unless you change.

It was a common theme to hear the word disintermediated being used in these speeches.  Microsoft, Wal*Mart and Virgin are all coming for your lunch, you’re going to be disintermediated.

Well, no one ate the bankers lunch and so the over-used term lost its relevance and interest.