April 23, 2015 - A new research paper by SWIFT assesses the global real-time retail payments systems (RT-RPS) landscape, provides analysis on the key drivers and trends, and identifies the different approaches, barriers to entry and critical success factors. The paper, entitled 'The Global Adoption of Real-Time Retail Payments Systems' highlights two key interlinked themes; the variety of different adoption speeds and the relationship with core drivers which are leading to the adoption of such systems:

April 21, 2015 - Financial messaging network Swift has introduced an automated data look-up service that identifies and validates payments reference data in real-time, reducing the time spent by bank back offices in correcting errors resulting from manual repairs and investigations.

April 17, 2015 - IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and MasterCard today signed an agreement to establish a risk-sharing facility, which is expected to provide millions of people in emerging markets access to electronic payments, a crucial next step in their ongoing collaboration to increase universal financial access by 2020.

April 17, 2015 - In 2014, ACH volume grew to almost 23 billion electronic payments[1], an increase of almost 5 percent, or 1 billion transactions, over 2013 volume, according to new statistics released today by NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association®.

April 16, 2015 - HSBC in the US has begun notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their mortgage account data may have been inadvertently published on the Internet.

April 16, 2015 - Today, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 3.1 and supporting guidance.

April 15, 2015 - British businesses were hit by card fraud once every 20 seconds in March, with small businesses being the most popular targets.