January 27, 2014 - Lloyds Bank and its Halifax, Bank of Scotland and 'arms-length' TSB unit, which was spun off last year but still relies on its former parent group's IT system, suffered a major outage of its retail banking systems in the UK yesterday with customers unable to withdraw money from cashpoints or pay for in-store goods with their debit cards.

January 20, 2014 - New statistics released by the European Central Bank (ECB) show that migration to the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) gathered pace strongly in December.

January 14, 2014 - AT&T and Vantiv, Inc., a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions, announced today the availability of new payment products that deliver highly-secure, integrated and speedy on-the-spot mobile transactions to businesses of all sizes.

January 24, 2014 - Tech spending by North American banks is expected to hit nearly $60 billion in 2014, marking a return to confidence in the sector after years of underinvestment.

January 16, 2014 - The global technical body EMVCo will expand its scope to lead the payments industry in its work to standardise payment tokenisation. The new specification will help provide the payments community with a consistent, secure and interoperable environment to make digital payments when using a mobile handset, tablet, personal computer or other smart device.

January 13, 2014 - US retailer Target has confirmed that hackers infected its point-of-sale (PoS) terminals with malware to steal the details of millions of customers, with the latest estimate of the numbers' affected rising to 110 million.

January 22, 2014 - Ipswitch File Transfer's MOVEit Cloud environment is now certified for compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) 2.0 requirements for Level 1 Service Providers. Ipswitch is the first Managed File Transfer (MFT) service provider to announce PCI certification. To support customers in demonstrating PCI compliance, Ipswitch is offering a PCI Compliance Toolkit as an add-on to the MOVEit Cloud service.

January 15, 2014 - Following recent cyber-attacks and data leaks on retail giants Target and Neiman Marcus over the festive period, data security and forensics experts Foregenix have announced the launch of their latest data security solution that reduces the root cause of online fraud - Foregenix Security Essentials (FSE).

January 10, 2013 - US retailer Target says that up to 70 million customers may have had their card details compromised during a data breach incident in December, far more than the initial 40 million estimate.

January 21, 2014 - KVH Co. Ltd., Asia's leading information delivery platform headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, today announced it has launched the cloud service "KVH PCI DSS Ready Cloud" compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard[1] (PCI DSS), a proprietary information security standard for organizations handling cardholder information, in partnership with Link, Inc.

January 14, 2014 - Realex Payments, an established e-retail payment service provider, and Visualsoft, an award winning ecommerce platform, have today announced a partnership that offers PCI compliant payment solutions for online retailers operating on the Visualsoft platform.

January 7, 2014 - The next 20 years will see Australian banks turn towards innovative financial technology to offer support for customers embracing mobile banking and new payment methods.