About: e-payments
Moving the payment landscape forward at speed
The way we pay and shop continues to evolve at speed but the vision of a safe, secure and simple digital payments landscape is happening all around us, writes Ann Cairns.
Commission ready to boost cash support in humanitarian aid
The European Commission is aiming to boost the proportion of humanitarian aid it hands out as cash. But most payments are actually made by banking cards very similar to regular ATM cards.
Tech industry sounds alarm over draft online payment rules
Twenty-seven e-commerce companies and lobby groups have asked the European Commission to change a draft proposal to regulate payment services, arguing that additional security measures will drive shoppers away from online platforms.
Phone-packed Africa leads way in take-up of mobile banking
Services allowing consumers to perform banking and payment operations on their mobile phones are surging in sub-Saharan Africa, blazing a trail for the rest of the slower-moving world to follow. VideoPromoted content
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Financial Services?
More than 2.5 billion adults lack access to formal financial services. But technology’s potential for financial inclusion and improving livelihoods is being heralded, particularly as mobile-phone use grows.
Biometric security moves to counter cyber fraud
SPECIAL REPORT: If consumers put safety and security of their payments as a key priority when shopping, it is with good reason.
Mobile phones call up a cashless future
SPECIAL REPORT: A boom in payment-enabled smartphone manufacture and the entry of key phone and finance players into the mobile wallets market has made 2014 a watershed year, as the tide turns against the future use of cash.
Commission launches e-identity initiative
The European Commission will publish today (4 June) a proposal to encourage the take up of e-signatures and e-identities across Europe, gathering praise from companies but raising a controversial debate around the protection of privacy and the security of personal data.
Brussels wants e-identities for EU citizens
The European Commission is set to launch a substantial review of rules governing personal documents with the aim of making electronic identities take off across the EU. But the proposal faces likely opposition from civil rights groups and member states where identity cards do not exist.
EU moves to integrate online, mobile, card payments
The European Commission has moved to further integrate the 27-nation market for card, internet and mobile payments and stave off a lack of competition in that business.