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Filed Under: Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

What’s next for rail travel?

15th August 2018 by Neil McEvoy

Rail travel has been much in the news in the last few weeks in the UK, and it’s not been good. There are ongoing sporadic strikes at South Western Railways and Northern Rail. New timetables have ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Finance and Banking, Mobile money, Mobile Payments, Money

Real news about fake apps

2nd August 2018 by Lishoy Francis

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The (real) news over the past couple of years has been full of reports of fake news. Well now we have fake apps too. Last week this report from ESET [[Continue reading]

Filed Under: Mobile Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Is HCE secure enough for transit ticketing?

26th June 2018 by Dr John Elliott

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Host Card Emulation (HCE) is the technology in mobile phones that enables them to emulate contactless smartcards, but more about that later. The above question about HCE security was posed by a ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Money, Payment Cards, Payment systems, Public Sector and NGOs, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

London taking contactless for half of PAYG

26th April 2018 by Dr John Elliott

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Four years ago Consult Hyperion completed a transit project which changed not only the way people paid for their travel, but cemented contactless in the vocabulary of the masses. We were ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Mobile Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Tickets via Mobile or TVM?—you decide

18th January 2018 by Dr John Elliott

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I often travel from Edinburgh to Leeds by train -- pretty much every week in fact. I use the Trainline app (other apps are available) to search for train times. All sensible options I might care ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Crime & Fraud, Finance and Banking, Mobile Payments, Payment systems, Privacy and security

Who would have ex-Spectre-d this?

5th January 2018 by David Hearn

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At Consult Hyperion we’re always interested in the latest news in cyber security and in case you haven't heard, 2018 has started with the news that the most processors found inside current ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Crime & Fraud, Finance and Banking, Retail, Retail and Transit

Using Big Data to Identify Fraudulent Transactions

22nd November 2017 by Nick Norman

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With Thanksgiving upon us and the drive for mass consumption to continue through the Black Friday and Cyber Monday purchasing frenzy in the US, we regularly hear the comment ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Finance and Banking, Mobile money, Telecoms and Technology

PSD2, Curtains for Direct Carrier Billing?

17th November 2017 by Tim Richards

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The Second Payment Services Directive, aka PSD2, contains much that is admirable, some that is debatable and yet more that is downright mysterious. As we await the forthcoming final version of ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Payment Cards, Political, legal and regulatory, Public Sector and NGO, Public Sector and NGOs, Retail and Transit, Telecoms and Technology, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Crossing continents for knowledge sharing

13th November 2017 by Dr John Elliott

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Chyp believes that collaboration and knowledge sharing across markets can help the advancement of the industry and this is particularly true in transport ticketing. For example, we have found ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Cash and cash replacement, Money, Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Paying for Transit

16th October 2017 by Dr John Elliott

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I recently presented at the Transport Card Forum 2017 in Birmingham. The subject I was asked to speak about was "How will ... [Continue reading]

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