Last year, subscription SVoD services were available to 1.3% of emerging market households in 2014 and a new report expects paid OTT revenue in emerging markets to expand from $1.9 billion in 2014 to $6.0 billion in 2019 thanks to…

While consumers are very concerned about safety and security around electronic payments they also have a strong expectation that it should be convenient and fast to pay for what they want. Source: paymentsafrika.com

Tinkoff Bank has selected IRIS Analytics’ fraud prevention solution, IRIS, as its central fraud prevention system for all payment channels. This includes acquiring, issuing, e-wallet, and online banking. Source: http://www.plusworld.org

The majority of the world has been using credit cards with built-in EMV chips for a decade. The US has been slow to adopt EMV [ …] Source: blogs.microsoft.com

RT @CardNotPresent: “The challenge…enable fraud prevention that doesn’t hinder legitimate customer acquisition” http://t.co/XfW6Z4mTxQ Source: cardnotpresent.com

The new generation of banking customers would rather use biometric security devices than PINs and passwords for authentication, according to Visa Europe. Source: http://www.trunews.com

Breaches of information security and individual privacy hit the headlines regularly in 2014. But how will the arms race between cyber-attackers and defenders develop in the coming year? We analyse the experts’ predictions. Source: http://www.zdnet.com

The number of high-profile data breaches last year was nothing short of historic – and shocking. Big-name retailers in particular were caught with their cyber security pants down. Source: http://www.wired.com

Higher consumer spending helped MasterCard to a strong fourth quarter earnings Friday (Jan. 30), posting a better-than-anticipated profit increase of 29 percent to $801 million, year over year. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Online retailers don’t even have brick-and-mortar stores, but Storm Juno still managed to blow their doors off.The winter storm that overtook a large part of New England last Tuesday (Jan. Source: http://www.pymnts.com