Sep 4, 2019 | Banking, Online
Santander U.K. has announced its introduction of blockchain technology for international payments through a new app that is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot. The bank plans to make the application, which is only available on Apple’s iOS, available to...
Jan 9, 2018 | Banking, Business, News, Online, UK
Digital payment company PayPal is not betting on bitcoin as of now. In an interview with TheStreet.com, PayPal chief executive officer Dan Schulman said that while PayPal is focused on innovating in the payment market, it’s not focused specifically on the digital...
Jan 2, 2018 | Banking, Business, Mobile, Online, Security, UK
With the holiday shopping season behind us, most shoppers can probably say with confidence that the worst part of the whole experience was trying to remember passwords for the eCommerce sites they shopped. It’s not just the holiday season, either. A recent study by...
Dec 28, 2017 | Banking, Business, Contactless, Mobile, UK, Uncategorized
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable in scores of innovations around the world. But, as PYMNTS’ Karen Webster pointed out, for all of those advances, one is conspicuously missing from the...
Dec 19, 2017 | Banking, Business, Contactless, Online, Reward, UK
One of the hottest cryptocurrency investments of 2017, a startup called block.one, has raised $700 million selling a digital token that has “no purpose.” According to The Wall Street Journal, this is the largest initial coin offering to date, with block.one’s market...
Dec 11, 2017 | Banking, Business, Card, Processing, Technology, Terminal, UK
Shoppers already driven to distraction by the incessant dinging, and beeping of self-checkouts could be about to face a new headache. Payments using Visa will soon be accompanied by a ‘signature sound’, which will chime out each time a card or smartphone is presented,...
