Karen Tobiasen has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of Group Executive Management (GEM) as of 1 July 2016. To facilitate an even sharper customer focus it has also been decided to adjust the organisation and divide Retail Banking into two business areas, Personal Banking and Commercial & Business Banking.

 Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today the availability of 

Merchants, consumers, banks all stand to benefit from faster payments. But are they ready?

The UK e-commerce market is Europe’s largest and is set to reach £90 bn before 2020 (up from £60 bn in 2015). But while e-commerce grows, the preferred consumer payment mechanisms are changing.

Samsung Electronics Australia today launched the company’s mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, bringing Australian consumers and businesses a secure, fast, and simple way to pay. The mobile payment service works almost anywhere¹ you can pay with a participating credit or debit card.

Samsung Pay will be available starting today on compatible Samsung smartphones including the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, with specific availability varying by local operator².

Analytic software firm FICO announced today that it is developing a FICO^® Enterprise Security Score, which will rank an organisation’s level of cybersecurity risk. To further this effort, FICO has acquired QuadMetrics, an innovative cyber risk security scoring company from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Logic Group, a leading provider of omni-channel Managed Payment Services, today announced that its Solve DataShield Payments Solution is the first in the world to receive global accreditation from the PCI Council for Point-to-Point Encryption Version 2 (P2PE v2).

The key benefit of P2PE v2 is its modularity.  Merchants using this solution will not only gain the established benefits of a P2PE, but they will have greater flexibility to select the components that meet their individual needs.