The warning comes as the bank has seen a spike in the number of cases, with dozens of customers downloading a dummy app within the last couple of weeks. One of these fake apps is called ‘PDF AI’ which impersonates a genuine app with a similar name.  The...

Indra has made Lisbon one of the first cities in Europe in which travellers can access the subway with their own cell phone, bank card or smartwatch without having to purchase a ticket or pass beforehand, by applying the EMV (Europay-Mastercard-Visa)...

  Paysend, the global card-to-card payments pioneer and RemotePass, the global onboarding and payroll platform, has announced a partnership to facilitate instant and more cost-effective transfers to international workers in 80 countries.  Through this ...

The ubiquitous presence of mobile devices and digital wallets are pushing demand for more mobile access deployments in the region. HID, one of the world’s leading provider of trusted identity solutions, has announced it now offers companies the...

Financial fraud has increased substantially as the trend towards mobile banking and digitisation accelerates. In 2022 alone, the US Federal Trade Commission received over 1.1 million reports of identity theft and over 440,000 reports of credit card fraud. To...

e& money, the fintech arm and financial super-app of e& life, announced its partnership with Mastercard to transform and evolve the way customers make payments via an exclusive prepaid card – enabling payments anywhere in the world and...

According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, 64% of MENA consumers, compared to 61% globally increased their use of at least one digital payment method in the last year, including digital cards, SMS payments, digital money transfer apps, and instant p...

Ooredoo Group has signed a partnership agreement with Huawei to leverage Huawei Mobile Fintech platform to provide Fintech services in markets across the company’s footprint. Under the agreement, the two entities will cooperate for Ooredoo to provide state-of t...

Lookout, an endpoint to cloud security company, has released its 2022 Government Threat Report which examines the most prominent mobile threats affecting federal, state and local governments in the United States.  Lookout data reveals mobile phishing...

Lanistar, a virtual payment card provider, has gone live with Google Pay operability to its virtual payment card in Brazil – one of the fastest-growing markets for its service. This is the first time Lanistar has been approved for use through Google’s pro...

Optasia, a leading FinTech services provider, has launched a microloan service via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), with Ecobank in  Guinea and MTN.   The launch comes as part of MTN’s BankTech strategy in Guinea with over 4.25 million subscribers and over 800,...

Boost, a leading regional full-spectrum FinTech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), a national retail payments network infrastructure, have announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now accept cross-border payments f...