Kalixa CEO Ed Chandler voted most influential person in payments 2014
June 13, 2014 - Ed Chandler, CEO of Kalixa, has today been voted the most influential person in the European payments sector, building on his third place from last year. The Payments Power 10 is organised by leading industry event PayExpo 2014 and recognises the ten most influential figures in the European payment industry. The shortlist is an elite group of payments leaders that includes executives from Google, MasterCard and Vocalink.
PCI Security Standards Council calls for password security ambassadors
June 12, 2014 - Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 10th Annual America's Small Business Summit and Small Business Expo this week, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), an open, global forum for the development of payment card security standards, initiated a call for 50 organizations to step forward in a collaborative effort to increase payment security awareness in the global small business community.
US restaurant chain PF Chang's investigates possible data breach
June 11, 2014 - US restaurant chain PF Chang's China Bistro has confirmed that is investigating a data breach that may have seen customer card details stolen.
UK card spending tops £0.5 trillion in 2013
June 5, 2014 - UK card spending has more than doubled over the last decade, topping half a trillion pounds last year, according to industry figures.
Russia frees jailed card exec to build national payment system - report
June 4, 2014 - The boss of a Russian payments firm who was jailed last year for organising a cyberattack on a rival's website, has been released early in exchange for helping to build the country's new national payments system, a local journalist has claimed.
AmEx writes to customers after Anonymous dumps card data
June 3, 2014 - American Express is writing to around 75,000 Californian customers to warn them that their card data has been posted online by Anonymous Ukraine.
Bitcoin to have 'profound' impact on trust-based markets - Wedbush analysts
May 30, 2014 - Bitcoin may currently be going through an "adoption chasm" but the crypto-currency will have a profound societal effect, shaking up payments markets and other industries over the next few years, analysts from Wedbush Securities have predicted.
Nepal's Nabil Bank gets ready for EMV with Fime
May 27, 2014 - Fime has announced the completion of a period of consultancy and testing to validate Nabil Bank's point of sale (POS) terminals and host acquirer platform infrastructure to UnionPay, MasterCard and Visa specifications.
