August 18, 2015 - While companies around the world are taking note of the growing emergence of mobile and digital payment applications, many treasury departments still grapple with the continued existence and enormous cost of paper payments.

August 11, 2015 - The Canadian Payments Association has hired global consulting firm McKinsey to draw up plans to modernise the nation's core payments infrastructure.

August 10, 2015 - UK mobile phone chain Carphone Warehouse says it has suffered a serious data breach that may have seen the banking details of 2.4 million customers stolen by hackers.

August 6, 2015 - A majority of small business owners are unaware of the impending EMV1 liability shift coming in October, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index conducted July 6-10.

August 5, 2015 - The importance of an EMV-compliant infrastructure to stem losses from card fraud has been demonstrated by new figures from The Nilson Report, which show that the US accounted for 48.2% or $7.86 billion of gross losses worldwide on plastic cards last year while generating only 21.4% or $6.187 trillion of total volume.

August 3, 2015 - The number of mobile banking users globally is forecast to double to 1.8bn over the next four years, encompassing over 25% of the world's population, according to research by KPMG and UBS.

July 28, 2015 - Research into how claims are handled for unauthorised transactions (when a payment is made from a consumer's account without their consent) found that firms are making good efforts to deliver fair outcomes for consumers.