All articles by Ellie Chambers
Ellie Chambers
The pre-paid puzzle: why choose closed-loop for payment innovations?
The increasingly powerful prepaid cards sector is hotly tipped to carry on growing, particularly in the US, in years to come. So why is InComm, an internationally successful prepaid provider used by over 1bn US customers a week, signing up to digitise its products with Seamless? – asks Ellie Chambers
Russia and UK suffer highest growth in card fraud during 2013 – FICO
Russia and the UK have suffered huge rises in card fraud, with Brits’ fraud losses nearing the peak levels experienced in 2008.
Raphaels Bank and UK Post Office launch prepaid card
Raphaels Bank and the UK Post Office have launched a prepaid MasterCard to provide an alternative to credit and debit cards.
Thames Card Technology to provide travel money cards for TUI customers
Thames Card Technology has been selected to provide travel company TUI UK & Ireland with prepaid travel money cards.
AIB teams up with Irish telco to launch mPOS device
Allied Irish Banks and telco Eircom have teamed up to launch a mobile card reader allowing small businesses and sole traders to accept card payments.
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Get industry leading news, data and analysis delivered to your inbox
The payment card gets a make over
The payment card has endured for many years in almost exactly the same physical form as the rest of the payments industry evolved around it. As mobile payments companies seek to threaten the supremacy of the card, other players are trying to update card design and technology. Ellie Chambers investigates
RBC takes top prize at Retail Banker International Global Awards 2014
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) scooped up the top prize of Best Global Retail Bank at the ‘Retail Banker International’ (RBI) Global Awards on 8 July.
China UnionPay to launch QR code based mobile payments
China UnionPay, the state-backed card issuer, is working on a QR code mobile payment system, according to the Chinese media.
London cabbies may be forced to take cards by 2016
London taxi drivers could be forced to accept debit and credit cards by 2016 under proposals made by Transport for London (TfL).
Barclays UK customers suffer card outages
Barclays customers have taken to Twitter to complain that their cards are not working.