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Royal Bank of Scotland has just announces that it is trialling its own cryptocurrency - which of course, will resonate on the news-lines significantly.

Riskskill has been approved as a trusted vendor for Visa Inc., and specifically as a Global Acquirer Risk Standards programme (GARS) reviewer. The Visa Inc. risk team monitor acquirer performance - i.e.

Risks in enterprises can cover a multitude of things and present themselves in many different ways. They can be simple and easy to address, or they can get left and at some point become catastrophic.

The Payment Services Regulator may make major UK infrastructural changes and legal changes to 'open up' the payments industry and access to it in the UK in order to encourage innovation. They have the powers to do many things, but care is certain needed.

1. Big-Data – Big-data has become a buzz-word to capture many things, but in finding risks and fraud, the more data that we look at, the better chance we have of finding unusual features and problems that should not be there.

They have the global positioning, brand strength, loyal customer-base and drive to do so, and they have the size and delivery mechanisms (mainly in the volumes of iPhones and iOther-Things out there) to do achieve this.

There is a big issue that Apple have probably faced in their negotiations with the card schemes.

An interesting question - and of course Apple Pay will not kill the QR code per se, because the QR code does a lot of different things - most notably allowing a camera on a 'connected' device to quickly access material without the need to type into the...

The FCA in London are making changes and will be starting to undertake more audits, checks and stronger enforcement upon their e-money licence-holders, passporting and passported organisations..