February 17, 2016 - Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY), one of the nation's largest payment processors, today announced it has worked with the Smart Card Alliance to launch the National Center for Advanced Payments and Identity Security, a new training facility hosted by the Alliance.

January 13, 2016 - 16.5 billion e-commerce card payments worth $2.1 trillion were made worldwide in 2014 according to a recent study by RBR.

November 20, 2015 - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) in a statewide consumer protection action over anti-competitive and illegal merchant restraints alleged to be "responsible for billions of dollars in excessive and improper costs" borne directly by retailers and, indirectly, by all California consumers.

February 2, 2016 - Incidents of new account fraud in the US doubled last year, as criminals switched tactics in response to the introduction of EMV chip cards.

December 21, 2015 - Technical body EMVCo has released official figures which demonstrate that one in three of all card-present transactions undertaken globally between July 2014 and June 2015 used EMV® chip technology.

November 16, 2015 - Approximately 70 percent of consumers across all generations (85 percent of millennials) believe banks that are current with the latest technology are more trustworthy than banks that lag; however, nearly 4 out of 5 Americans say when it matters most, they value people more.

January 27, 2016 - The Bank of England is developing a blueprint to modernise the UK's 20-year old real-time gross settlement system to deal with changing payment habits and the emergence of distributed ledger technology.

December 8, 2015 - The European Payments Council (EPC), representing payment service providers, and the Cards Stakeholders Group (CSG), a multi-stakeholder body gathering retailers, vendors, processors, card schemes and the EPC, today published version 7.1 of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Cards Standardisation Volume (the Volume).

November 10, 2015 - Chase Commerce Solutions, the global payment processing and merchant acquiring business of JPMorgan Chase & Co., today announced a strategic alliance with Early Warning, a provider of risk management solutions, which will enhance account verification and authentication for businesses and provide real-time fraud protection for payments made via the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network.

January 25, 2016 - The Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBBK), today announces the release of its next Finetics™ Studio interview series: "The Impact of EMV on Fraud" featuring Julie Conroy, Research Director, Aite Group; Dan Rosen, Founder and General Partner, Commerce Ventures; Render Dahiya, CEO, Arroweye Solutions; and Charles Crawford, Senior Vice President, Payment Acceptance, The Bancorp.

December 8, 2015 - The European Payments Council (EPC), representing payment service providers, and the Cards Stakeholders Group (CSG), a multi-stakeholder body gathering retailers, vendors, processors, card schemes and the EPC, today published version 7.1 of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Cards Standardisation Volume (the Volume).

October 21, 2015 - Forensic researchers from France have called a scam that saw thieves embed two chips in a payment card to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack "the most sophisticated smart card fraud encountered to date".