Financial Markets

TfL Hits One Million Contactless Payments In Just Nine Days

New service launched earlier this month as part of technology drive

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Mobile Payments

Mobile money is taking over, but do you know your PayPal from your Bitcoin?

10 years ago

PayPal Moves Closer To Full Bitcoin Acceptance

New agreement follows similar announcement by subsidiary Braintree earlier this month

10 years ago

Sage Takes Its SMB Accounting Software To The Cloud

Sage 50 Accounts gets a new interface, Sage Drive support, two mobile apps and a subscription model

10 years ago

Operation Emmental Targets Banks That Use Two-Factor Authentication

Cyber criminal gang devises a new, complex method of hijacking SMS to steal money

10 years ago

European Central Bank Held To Ransom Over Stolen Data

Hackers steal partially encrypted records from an events website that belongs to the bank

10 years ago

Lloyds Banking To Lead Part Of Government’s Digital Literacy Efforts

Lloyds will teach SMBs and charities how to maintain a website and accept payments online

10 years ago

App Intelligence Is Just The Ticket For London Travel

As London buses say 'goodbye' to cash fares, travel and mobile payment apps will become increasingly important, predicts Tom Levey,…

10 years ago

New Malware Family Threatens UK’s Online Banking Users

A Remote Access Tool called ‘Dyre’ can circumvent encryption

11 years ago

Hacker Earns £365,000 Mining Dogecoin With NAS Boxes

This could be the most profitable illegal crypto-currency mining operation in history

11 years ago

The Isle Of Man Embraces Virtual Currencies

Local authorities promote the island as the perfect base for Bitcoin and Litecoin operations, say they can prevent money laundering

11 years ago

PayPal President Leaves To Head Messaging At Facebook

David Marcus will be overseeing the development of Facebook’s messaging products

11 years ago

Hackers Raid DogeVault, Fate Of Customer Dogecoins Unclear

Some customers say their virtual wallets were emptied minutes before the website went down

11 years ago

Mt Gox Abandons Hope, Prepares For Liquidation

CEO of the bitcoin exchange Mark Karpeles has been replaced by court-appointed provisional administrator

11 years ago

Facebook Is About To Enter The Money Services Market

The social network is negotiating with Ireland’s central bank to become a licenced financial services operator

11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S5 Launches In The UK With Biometric PayPal Authentication

The smartphone is the first to offer universal mobile payments secured by fingerprints

11 years ago

Teradata Universe: “Data Enables The New Economy”

The future will belong to companies that make data-driven decisions and value the trust of their customers, says Hermann Wimmer…

11 years ago

Russia Considers Switching To National Payment System After Visa, Mastercard Block Banks

Seven Russian banks were hit by economic sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea, government wants to make sure this…

11 years ago

Mt Gox Finally Admits It Lost $500,000,000 In Bitcoin

The exchange has launched a dedicated call centre to handle furious investors after admitting that it lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging…

11 years ago

Kaspersky Labs To Fight Online Fraud With New Product Suite

Kaspersky Fraud Prevention platform includes server-side tools, mobile clients and an SDK

11 years ago

Code_N Competition Is Bringing 50 Big Data Start-Ups To CeBIT

The finalists will be surrounded by a 12-metre tall data visualisation artwork

11 years ago

South Korean Banks Fined £3,400 After Epic January Data Breach

KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and NongHyup Card will not be able to issue credit cards for the next three…

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Claims To Be Fixing Network-Wide Vulnerability

The exchange resumes currency withdrawals, but refuses to send Bitcoins to third-party wallets until further notice

11 years ago

Russian Government Says Bitcoin Is Illegal

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office says Bitcoin is used for money laundering, and should be avoided

11 years ago

Whistleblower: Barclays Customer Data Stolen And Sold For Scammers’ Use

Bank says it is looking into a report that data was stolen before being used and sold by rogue traders

11 years ago

Apple Kills The Only iOS-Compatible Bitcoin Trading App

Apple has dumped the Blockchain application from its App Store – and Bitcoin users are threatening to dump their iPhones

11 years ago

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering

The co-founder of BitInstant allegedly conspired to supply Silk Road with Bitcoins

11 years ago

University Of Cumbria To Accept Fees In Bitcoin

Rival university lecturer says Cumbria would be braver to use dogecoin

11 years ago